The Schoolmistress and Other Stories
Anton Chekhov
Chekhov's people love quietly, say nothing, and let the moment pass. A collection of short pieces where the confession arrives too late or never arrives at all.
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White NightsA lonely dreamer meets a young woman over four St. Petersburg nights and falls for her while she waits for someone else. Dostoevsky's shortest and most tender study of hope that has nowhere to go.
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Jay Gatsby builds an entire fortune and an entire life around a woman who married someone else. The definitive American novel about loving an idea of a person rather than the person.
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Cyrano writes the love letters that win Roxane for another man, never signing his own name. A verse drama about a love kept silent out of shame over appearance.
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Heathcliff loves Catherine and loses her to a marriage of convenience, then spends decades turning that loss into revenge. Unrequited love as a force that ruins two generations.
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