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A kind young man, Dan, who believes he is not as interesting as he appeares, and Alice, an abrasive girl who some consider an egotist, must work through the challenges of gossip, maneuvering, and other love interests before making a match.

Collects two of the author's novellas, including "The bridesmaid," in which Kate meets fellow traveller Joe on a trip to Seattle in a blizzard, and the two suffer one travel mishap after another, all while falling for each other.

When young newlywed Lady Nell Cardross begins to fill her days with fashion and frivolity, the earl has to wonder whether if she really did marry him for his money, as his family so helpfully suggests. He thought he was marrying for love, but between his concern over his wife's spending sprees, rescuing her impulsive brother from one scrape after another, and attempting to prevent his own half sister from a disastrous elopement, it's no wonder the...

The surrealistic tale of a man and a woman in a hotel room, who cannot remember why they are there. By the author of The One Who Was Standing Apart from Me.

In this fictional memoir, the renowned composer Kuhn recounts his tangled relationships with two artists--his friend Heinrich Muoth, a brooding, self-destructive opera singer, and the gentle, self-assured Gertrude Imthor. Kuhn is drawn to Gertrude upon their first meeting, but Gertrude falls in love with Heinrich, to whom she is introduced when Kuhn auditions them for the leads in his new opera. Hopelessly ill-matched, Gertrude and Heinrich have a...

Recently divorced Blanche Vernon is convinced the divorce is somehow her fault, even though her husband left her for another woman. But her wit enables her to step forward and grasp what has previously eluded her, even though she's puzzled at the prospect.

Kolton and Shay meet during Shay's girls' trip to Aspen, but both are wary of the intensity of their feelings for one another.

Ever since her engagement, the strangest thing has been happening to Marian McAlpin: she can't eat. First meat. Then eggs, vegetables, cake, pumpkin seeds--everything! Worse yet, she has the crazy feeling that she's being eaten. Marian ought to feel consumed with passion, but she really just feels ... consumed.

In this fairly outrageous and definitely funny story of Jake and his lost libido, Kingsley Amis takes some well-aimed swipes at the crankier fringes of psychotherapy and at sex--1970s style.

The novel takes place in three of six metaphysical Zones that encircle the planet Shikasta (an allegorical Earth), and concerns two ordained marriages that link the patriarchal and militaristic Zone Four with the matriarchal and egalitarian Zone Three, and the tribal and barbaric Zone Five. The story is told from the point of view of the matriarchal utopian Zone Three, and is about gender conflict and the breaking down of barriers between the sexes....