A bouquet of great wedding stories--by turns funny, passionate,
bittersweet, and romantic--by famous writers from across the past two
centuries. From F. Scott Fitzgerald to Lorrie Moore, and from Stephen
Crane to Edwidge Danticat. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET CLASSICS.
The stories collected here--including such gems as Stephen Crane's The
Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, O. Henry's The Marry Month of May, F. Scott
Fitzgerald's The Bridal Party, Joy Williams's The Wedding, and Lorrie
Moore's Thank You For Having Me--encompass comic wedding mishaps,
engagements broken and mended, honeymoon adventures, and scenes both
heartwarming and heartbreaking. There are glamorous weddings in Paris
and New York, and more eccentric ones in the Wild West and on a remote
island beach. There are nervous brides, forgetful grooms, meddling
guests, interrupted nuptials, second thoughts, and second chances. Above
all, there are all kinds of people--young and old, rich and poor,
divorced and widowed, with or without children--joining together in the
age-old quest for matrimonial happiness.