Book Read Free

My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, From Chekhov to Munro

Page 71

by Jeffrey Eugenides


  “First Love” from Collected Stories by Isaac Babel, translated by David McDuff, copyright © 1994 by David McDuff. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.

  “Tonka” from Five Women by Robert Musil, copyright © 1966 by Dell Publishing, a division of Random House Inc. Used by permission of Dell Publishing, a division of Random House, Inc.

  “Jon” from In Persuasion Nation: Stories by George Saunders, copyright ©

  2006 by George Saunders. Used by permission of Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

  “Red Rose, White Rose” from Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang copyright © 1947, translated by Karen S. Kingsbury copyright © 2007. Published

  by New York Review Books Classics. Used by permission of Robin Straus Agency, Inc., acting in conjunction with Andrew Nurnberg Associates, Ltd.

  “Fireworks” from Rock Springs by Richard Ford, copyright © 1987 by Richard Ford. Used by permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

  “We Didn’t” from I Sailed with Magellan by Stuart Dybek, copyright © 2003

  by Stuart Dybek. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, LLC.

  “Something That Needs Nothing” reprinted with the permission of Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, from No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories by Miranda July. Copyright © 2007 by Miranda July. All rights reserved.

  “The Magic Barrel” from The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud. Copyright

  © 1950, 1958, renewed 1977, 1986 by Bernard Malamud. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, LLC.

  “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” from What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver, copyright © 1974, 1976, 1078, 1980, 1981 by Raymond Carver. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

  “Innocence” from Stories in an Almost Classical Mode by Harold Brodkey, copyright © 1963, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1983, 1985, and 1988 by Harold Brodkey. Reprinted by permission of International Creative Management, Inc., and the Harold Brodkey Estate.

  “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” from Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro, copyright © 2001 by Alice Munro.

  Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., and McClellan & Stuart Ltd.

  Also by Jeffrey Eugenides

  Middlesex

  The Virgin Suicides

  Credits

  Designed by Leah Carlson-Stanisic

  Cover design by Jarrod Taylor

  Copyright

  MY MISTRESS’S SPARROW IS DEAD. Introduction and selection

  Copyright © 2008 by Jeffrey Eugenides. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the

  required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-

  transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book

  on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted,

  down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or

  introduced into any information storage and retrieval system,

  in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical,

  now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written

  permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  Adobe Acrobat e-Book Reader December 2007

  ISBN 978-0-06-156971-5

  10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

  About the Publisher

  Australia

  HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty. Ltd.

  25 Ryde Road (PO Box 321)

  Pymble, NSW 2073, Australia

  http://www.harpercollinsebooks.com.au

  Canada

  HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

  55 Avenue Road, Suite 2900

  Toronto, ON, M5R, 3L2, Canada

  http://www.harpercollinsebooks.ca

  New Zealand

  HarperCollinsPublishers (New Zealand) Limited

  P.O. Box 1

  Auckland, New Zealand

  http://www.harpercollinsebooks.co.nz

  United Kingdom

  HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

  77-85 Fulham Palace Road

  London, W6 8JB, UK

  http://www.uk.harpercollinsebooks.com

  United States

  HarperCollins Publishers Inc.

  10 East 53rd Street

  New York, NY 10022

  http://www.harpercollinsebooks.com

  Document Outline

  Title Page

  Contents Introduction: Jeffrey Eugenides

  First Love and Other Sorrows: Harold Brodkey

  The Lady with the Little Dog: Anton Chekhov

  Love: Grace Paley

  A Rose for Emily: William Faulkner

  The Dead: James Joyce

  Dirty Wedding: Denis Johnson

  Natasha: David Benzmozgis

  Some Other, Better Otto: Deborah Eisenberg

  The Hitchhiking Game: Milan Kundera

  Lovers of Their Time: William Trevor

  Mouche: Guy De Maupassant

  The Moon in Its Flight: Gilbert Sorrentino

  Spring in Fialta: Vladimir Nabokov

  How to be an Other Woman: Lorrie Moore

  Yours: Mary Robison

  The Bad Thing: David Gates

  First Love: Isaac Babel

  Tonka: Robert Musil

  Jon: George Saunders

  Red Rose, White Rose: Eileen Chang

  Fireworks: Richard Ford

  We Didn't: Stuart Dybek

  Something That Needs Nothing: Miranda July

  The Magic Barrel: Bernard Malamud

  What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Raymond Carver

  Innocence: Harold Brodkey

  The Bear Came Over the Mountain: Alice Munro

  About the Contributors

  Permissions

  Also by Jeffrey Eugenides

  Credits

  Copyright Notice

  About the Publisher

 

 

 


‹ Prev