WEDDING STORIES: Everyman's Pocket Classics

From the very collectable series and with white pagemarker, here is a colourful bouquet of wedding stories by great writers of the past two centuries. They encompass comic wedding mishaps, engagements broken and mended, honeymoon adventures and scenes both heartwarming and heartbreaking. Here are nervous brides, forgetful grooms, meddling guests, interrupted nuptials, second thoughts and second chances of young and old, rich and poor, divorced and widowed, joining together in the age-old quest for matrimonial happiness. Here are short story gems such as Stephen Crane's The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, O. Henry's The Marry Month of May, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Bridal Party, and scenes from famous novels including dramatic nuptials in Jane Eyre, Getting Married by A. A. Milne, Elizabeth Taylor's Perhaps A Family Failing, Maupassant's A Wedding Gift, Alice Munro's A Real Life and Graham Swift's Remember This among them. 22 short stories by turns funny, passionate, bittersweet and romantic. Tiny remainder dot. 407pp.