Seven stories. Seven days. One week with the stories that defined love in the literary imagination. In this carefully curated volume, seven masterworks of short fiction are brought together for the first time in a single guided week of reading. O. Henry, James Joyce, Anton Chekhov, Oscar Wilde, Kate Chopin, Guy de Maupassant, and Stephen Crane — writers who between them reshaped what short fiction could do — each contribute one story that illuminates a different face of love: generous, foolish, longing, illusory, quietly brave, costly, and transforming. Each story is accompanied by a modern introduction that places it in context, and each day closes with a journal prompt designed to help you carry the story’s question into your own life. By the final page, the question these stories collectively pose is unavoidable: what would you surrender — for love, or for the life you thought you ought to lead?
Perfect for: readers new to the classics · book clubs seeking a one-week structured read · gift buyers who want something beautiful and lasting · anyone who has ever started a Dickens novel and given up by Chapter Three.
Read one story a day. By Friday, you’ll have read seven of the finest short works in the English language — and felt every one of them.
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