About the Author

Lord Northcliffe Professor of English at University College, London, John Sutherland has edited numerous World's Classics, including novels by Anthony Trollope and Wilkie Colins. He is Associate General-Editor of Oxford Popular Fiction, and is currently editing the Oxford Companion to Popular Fiction.

Reviews

`marvellous collection of stories'
Madeleine Burton, Letchworth & Baldock Gazette
`Curl up on those dark evenings with a copy of the Oxford Book of English Love Stories and you will be in another world. This very beautiful hardback edition costs £17.99 and contains stories of tenderness and passion from authors like Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Trollope and Thackeray. It's a gift to cherish.'
Dresses for Brides (You & Your Wedding) March '96
`excellent'
Ian Sansom, The Guardian
`Like everything Sutherland undertakes, the selection is individual and idea-driven.'
John Carey, The Sunday Times
`superb anthology ... 28 brilliant ... tales of passion'
Val Henessy, Daily Mail
`Sophisticated and simple, sometimes comic and often moving.'
Womans Weekly
`Love's endlessly fascinating possibilities and varied forms - virginal love, adulterous love, gay love and so on, are robustly portrayed in a collection which also succeeds in showing how the 28 authors included, approach their theme according to both the social and literary conventions of their day.'
Helen Rennie, Oxford Times
`examines the nature of love and its manifestations with lucidity and insight'
Vogue
`a fascinating study of different rules of love and courtship that society imposed ... We also see the different forms that love can take. Comedy, tragedy, passion, obsession and betrayal are all portrayed in a typical English non-nonsense approach and, although the stories are not sentimental, they are always emotional.'
Bill Spence, Yorkshire Gazette & Herald
`This book is like a whole box of chocolates to yourself. This book contains 450 pages of pulsating desire and refined lust, shattering loss and erotic caprice. Buy one and give it to your wife. Buy another and keep it for yourself. If music be the food of love, read on ...'
Peter Mullen, Yorkshire Evening Press (York)
`Love emerges in all its guises in these 28 stories'
Peter Hannam, Eastern Daily Press
`Enthralling and revelatory ... offers the best and most beautifully articulated examples which pinpoint 'the lineament of English love' over 200 years.'
Elizabeth Buchan, The Mail on Sunday
`The ups and downs of English love are traced through two centuries and there's a great variety of enjoyable material.'
Swansea South Wales Evening Post