Classic Love Stories
- Author Louisa May Alcott, Katherine Mansfield, Thomas Hardy
- Narrator Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date 8 September 2005
- Run Time 3 hours and 23 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Romance, Short stories.
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What to expect
This wide-ranging collection around the theme of love is read by husband and wife, Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres. These are not love stories full of sentimentality, but a full range of clever, poignant, sometimes funny and often romantic stories set in an age of chivalry and honour. Enjoy aspects of humour and respect in "Mr. & Mrs. Dove", love from afar in the poignant tale, "Angela", and a woman clouded in mystery in "The Sphinx Without a Secret". Then find love laced with comedy from an inebriated Tom Smart talking to the furniture in Dickens' "The Bagman's Story", and tragedy from Phyllis and her love for a German Hussar. Meet the parents of Joe who want him to marry the wealthy Polly instead of his choice, "Genefer", and the strange effect of drugs when two young people fall in love under the influence of hashish in a little known, but ahead of its time, story entitled "Perilous Play".
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