Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship

A 1916 anthology of Victorian short stories about courtship, collecting works by W. S. Gilbert, Anthony Trollope, Hubert Crackanthorpe, George Egerton, and Israel Zangwill. The tales include Gilbert's "Angela," about a paralyzed artist in Venice who falls in love with a woman he knows only through her reflection in a canal.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

Topic

Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic short stories›British, Irish, and Commonwealth›Love, society, and inner life

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Adults›Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic short stories›British, Irish, and Commonwealth›Love, society, and inner life