Wedding Stories

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.

DIANA SECKER TESDELL is the editor of fourteen Everyman's Pocket Classic anthologies, including Christmas Stories, Love Stories, Dog Stories, Cat Stories, Horse Stories, New York Stories, Bedtime Stories, Stories of Art and Artists, Stories of Fatherhood, Stories of Motherhood, Stories of the Sea, Shaken and Stirred: Intoxicating Stories, and Stories from the Kitchen, as well as the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets anthology Lullabies and Poems for Children.

ENGAGEMENTS
A. A. Milne, "Getting Married"
Shirley Jackson, "About Two Nice People"
O. Henry, "The Marry Month of May"
Anne Tyler, from Breathing Lessons

CEREMONIES AND CELEBRATIONS
Edith Wharton, from The Age of Innocence
Toni Morrison, from Sula
Joy Williams, "The Wedding"
Francine Prose, "Dog Stories"
Alice McDermott, from At Weddings and Wakes

WEDDING GUESTS
F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Bridal Party"
Carson McCullers, from A Member of the Wedding
Lorrie Moore, "Thank You for Having Me"
Kelly Link, "The Lesson"
Edwidge Danticat, from "Caroline's Wedding"

WEDDING MISHAPS
Charlotte Brontë, from Jane Eyre
Guy de Maupassant, "A Wedding Gift"
Elizabeth Taylor, "Perhaps a Family Failing"
William Trevor, "The Wedding in the Garden"

BEYOND THE HONEYMOON
Stephen Crane, "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky"
Alice Munro, "A Real Life"
Graham Swift, "Remember This"
Edith Pearlman, "Elder Jinks"