Love stories / [electronic resource] introduction by Rosamunde Pilcher ; compiled by Lynn Curtis.

Miss Geraldine Parkington / Catherine Cookson -- The chairmender / Guy de Maupassant -- A constellation of events / John Updike -- The Kepi / Colette -- The square peg / Jilly Cooper -- First love (A confession) / Frank Harris -- Kiss me again, stranger / Daphne du Maurier -- When love isn't enough / Stella Whitelaw -- From Kippur to Christmas / Shirley Eskapa -- Joe Johnson / H.E. Bates -- Snow storm / Jean Stubbs -- The letters / Edith Wharton -- Ethel Crowther / Audrie Manley-Tucker -- The curious courtship of Mrs Blishen / Judy Gardiner -- Comrades in arms / George Gissing -- The needlecase / Elizabeth Bowen -- The district doctor / Ivan Turgenev -- Lalla / Rosamunde Pilcher.

A collection of romantic tales.