![]() ![]() 826 Chicago is part of the network of seven writing centers across the United States affiliated with 826 National, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Let everybody else suffer."-Jeffrey Eugenides, from the introduction to My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead All proceeds from My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead will go directly to fund the free youth writing programs offered by 826 Chicago. ![]() Read these love stories in the safety of your single bed. ![]() I offer this book, then, as a cure for lovesickness and an antidote to adultery. It is perhaps only in reading a love story (or in writing one) that we can simultaneously partake of the ecstasy and agony of being in love without paying a crippling emotional price. All proceeds from My Mistresss Sparrow is Dead will go directly to fund the. Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name. Jeffrey Eugenides, from the introduction to My Mistresss Sparrow Is Dead. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart. A love story can never be about full possession. His name was Gaius Catullus and he fell in love with Clodia. But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler. My Mistresss Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro by Jeffrey Eugenides (Editor) Sixty-odd years before the birth of Christ, there lived in Gaul the son of a minor aristocrat. "When it comes to love, there are a million theories to explain it. ![]()
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