Wedding Stories [Hardcover]

A bouquet of great wedding stories--by turns funny, passionate, bittersweet, and romantic--by famous writers from across the past two centuries. From F. Scott Fitzgerald to Lorrie Moore, and from Stephen Crane to Edwidge Danticat. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET CLASSICS.

The stories collected here--including such gems 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, Joy Williams's The Wedding, and Lorrie Moore's Thank You For Having Me --encompass comic wedding mishaps, engagements broken and mended, honeymoon adventures, and scenes both heartwarming and heartbreaking. There are glamorous weddings in Paris and New York, and more eccentric ones in the Wild West and on a remote island beach. There are nervous brides, forgetful grooms, meddling guests, interrupted nuptials, second thoughts, and second chances. Above all, there are all kinds of people--young and old, rich and poor, divorced and widowed, with or without children--joining together in the age-old quest for matrimonial happiness.ENGAGEMENTS
A. A. Milne, Getting Married
Shirley Jackson, About Two Nice People
O. Henry, The Marry Month of May
Anne Tyler, fromBreathing Lessons

CEREMONIES AND CELEBRATIONS
Edith Wharton, fromThe Age of Innocence
Toni Morrison, fromSula
Joy Williams, The Wedding
Francine Prose, Dog Stories
Alice McDermott, fromAt Weddings and Wakes

WEDDING GUESTS
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Bridal Party
Carson McCullers, fromA Member of the Wedding
Lorrie Moore, Thank You for Having Me
Kelly Link, The Lesson
Edwidge Danticat, from Caroline's Wedding

WEDDING MISHAPS
Charlotte Brontë, fromJane Eyre
Guy de Maupassant, A Wedding Gift
Elizabeth Taylor, Perhaps a Family Failing
William Trevor, The Wedding in the Garden

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