Stories About Affairs And Infidelity: Our lips are sealed

Written by Virginia Woolf, Thomas Hardy, Edith Wharton and 17 more

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Janet Maw and Kelly Burke

Being together is not always the love-strewn path of true happiness rolling off into the sunset. It involves all sorts of other issues that come up to investigate that relationship with questions, pain and trouble.

Perhaps infidelity is the most corrosive. The wronged partner seeks justice and answers as well as feeling betrayed and hurt. The other almost certainly knows their behaviour is wrong but seeks to justify it with barely literate utterances. The relationship may not survive, trust and respect will be damaged even broken.

Our classic authors including Marjorie Bowen, Gustav Meyrink, Kenneth Grahame, Thomas Hardy and many others bring all facets of this genre into needle-sharp focus.

1 - Stories About Affairs and Infidelity - An Introduction

2 - The Legacy by Virginia Woolf

3 - An Imaginative Woman by Thomas Hardy

4 - Souls Belated by Edith Wharton

5 - The Kiss by Kate Chopin

6 - The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov

7 - The Caballero's Way by O Henry

8 - La Grande Breteche by Honore de Balzac

9 - The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling

10 - The Cone by H G Wells

11 - The Strength of God by Sherwood Anderson

12 - The Converts by Israel Zangwill

13 - The Difference by Ellen Glasgow

14 - The Inquity of Oblivion by Kenneth Grahame

15 - The Man in the Bottle by Gustav Meyrink

16 - Brown of Calaveras by Bret Harte

17 - Lucy Wren by Ada Radford

18 - Behind the Curtain by Gertrude Barrows Bennett writing as Francis Stevens

19 - Modern Melodrama by Hugo Crackanthorpe

20 - The Other Woman by Sherwood Anderson

21 - The Pleasant Husband by Marjorie Bowen

22 - The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce

23 - The Storm by Kate Chopin

24 - From The Dead by Edith Nesbit

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jun 6, 2023
• ISBN: 9781835479148

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English novelist. Born in London, she was raised in a family of eight children by Julia Prinsep Jackson, a model and philanthropist, and Leslie Stephen, a writer and critic. Homeschooled alongside her sisters, including famed painter Vanessa Bell, Woolf was introduced to classic literature at an early age. Following the death of her mother in 1895, Woolf suffered her first mental breakdown. Two years later, she enrolled at King’s College London, where she studied history and classics and encountered leaders of the burgeoning women’s rights movement. Another mental breakdown accompanied her father’s death in 1904, after which she moved with her Cambridge-educated brothers to Bloomsbury, a bohemian district on London’s West End. There, she became a member of the influential Bloomsbury Group, a gathering of leading artists and intellectuals including Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes, Vanessa Bell, E.M. Forster, and Leonard Woolf, whom she would marry in 1912. Together they founded the Hogarth Press, which would publish most of Woolf’s work. Recognized as a central figure of literary modernism, Woolf was a gifted practitioner of experimental fiction, employing the stream of consciousness technique and mastering the use of free indirect discourse, a form of third person narration which allows the reader to enter the minds of her characters. Woolf, who produced such masterpieces as Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando (1928), and A Room of One’s Own (1929), continued to suffer from depression throughout her life. Following the German Blitz on her native London, Woolf, a lifelong pacifist, died by suicide in 1941. Her career cut cruelly short, she left a legacy and a body of work unmatched by any English novelist of her day.