What sad, appalling, and surprising things people do in the name oflove and for the sake of love. These short stories give us love wonand love lost, love revenged, love thrown away, love in triumph, lovein despair. It might be love between men and women, children andparents, even humans and cats, but whichever it is, love is a force to be reckoned with. This collection contains stories by Maeve Binchy,Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, H.E. Bates, Graham Greene, Fay Weldon, Patricia Highsmith, John Morrison, and Somerset Maugham.