It is possible that love is the most complex of human emotions. Whether platonic, lustful, fleeting or for life, this emotion always changes the lives it touches. So it comes as no surprise that love is a major literary theme, perhaps the most important. Check out these seven short stories by consecrated authors and see what each one of them has to say about love.

This book contains:

- The Lady With The Little Dog by Anton Chekhov.

- The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein by O. Henry.

- Federigo's Falcon by Giovanni Boccaccio.

- Regret by Guy de Maupassant.

- The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen.

- The Boarding House by James Joyce.

- The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne by Anthony Trollope.