Cas ee ey And All for What sad, appalling, and surprising things people do in the name of love, and for the sake of love. These short stories give us love won and love lost, love revenged, love thrown away, love in triumph, love in despair. It might be love between men and women, children and parents, even humans and cats; but whichever itis, love is a force to be reckoned with, Jaye... COLLECTION ns) H.6. Widdowson Pa ‘The OXFORD BOOKWORMS COLLECTION offers a variety of fiction from the English-speaking world by well-known authors, both classic and modern, The texts have not been abridged or simplified in any way, but each volume contains notes and questions designed to make reading more/meaningful and stimulating, Cover illustration: David Holmes/Central Illustration Agency Maeve Binchy Edith Wharton Virginia Woolf James Joyce H. E. Bates Graham Greene Fay Weldon Patricia Highsmith John Morrison Somerset Maugham for Love...Cy Toriomes- o1t ) 35 39-0004 (ort) @ 2 1174 AND ALL FOR LOVE... ‘The word ‘love’ isa short and simple one, and yer it is so complex and. diverse in meaning. So many fine and terrible things are done in its, rname, but hat is it exactly? Is it a ‘many-splendored thing’, as in the film and the romantic novel by Han Suyin? Or does it bring more tragedy than joy? Is ita burden, a prison, an agony to be endured? Itisall ehese things and more — unpredictable, wayward, uncertain. “The course of true love never did run smooth,’ wrote Shakespeare, andl in these stories we find some of the torrents and whirlpools of love, the ‘wists and turns that it takes. We have betrayal and vengeance, triumph and despair, fiety passion and quiet contentment. We have both devotion and denial, love as delight and as a terrible dilemma, ‘And at the end of these stories we might be no nearer knowing what love is. Perhaps the only answer lies in the words of Rabindranath Tagore, one of India’s most famous poets: Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. ~ OXFORD BOOKWORMS COLLECTIONACKNOWL! GEMENTS The editors and publishers are grateful for permission to use the following copyright material ‘The Kimono’ from The Best of H. E. Bates by H. E. BaTEs, published by Michael Joseph Ltd. Reprinted by permission of Laurence Pollinger Limited and the Estate of H. E. Bates. “The Garden Party’ by MAEVE BINCHY, first published in Radio Times. Copyright © Maeve Binchy 1995. Reprinted by permission of Christine Green Authors’ Agent. ‘A Shocking Accident’ from May We Borrow Your Husband? by GRAHAM (GreeXE, frst published by The Bodley Head. Copyright © Graham Greene 1986. Reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates Led. ‘Ming's Biggest Prey’ by Paraicta HicHsMITis, Copyright © Patricia Highsmith. Reprinted by permission of Tanja Howarth Literary Agency acting on behalf of Diogenes Verlag AG ‘A Painful Case’ from Dubliners by JAMES JOYCE, first published 1914. Copyright © Estate of James Joyce. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of James Joyce: ‘Mabel’ from The Complete Short Stories by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, first published by William Heinemann Ltd 1951. Reprinted by permission of A.B. Wate Lid on behalf of The Royal Literary Fund. “The Children’ from Stories of the Waterfront by JOHN MORRISON, published by Penguin Books Australia Led. Reprinced by permission of the publisher. “Horzors of the Road’ by Fay WELDON. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown/Edinburgh, “The Legacy’ by VinGINIA WooLr. Reprinted by permission of The Society of Authors as the Literary Representative of the Estate of Vieginia Woolf. AND ALL FOR LOVE... Short Stories Diane Mowat Jennifer Bassett SeRins ADVISERS H. G, Widdowson Jennifer Bassett _~ OxForD UNIverRSITY PRESS 2001