A fantastic collection of short stories based on love written at a time when love was really romantic and gentlemen were real gentlemen. This is not a collection of slushy romance and beautiful stories sometimes with a sharper edge. Readers Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres are a married couple in real life too! CSA Word are proud to offer a great collection of short stories based on the theme of love. These are not however archetypal love stories steeped in sentimentality but the clever, poignant, humorous and even romantic stories set during an age when chivalry and honour abound. We have aspects of humour and respect in Mr. & Mrs. Dove, love from afar in W.S. Gilbert's poignant tale, Angela, and a woman clouded in mystery in The Sphinx Without a Secret. There is comedy from an inebriated Tom Smart talking to the furniture in The Bagman's Story from Dickens' Pickwick Papers, tragedy from Phyllis and her love for a German Hussar, greed from the parents of Joe who want him to marry the wealthy Polly instead of his choice, Genefer, and drugs when two young people fall in love under the influence of hashish in a little known but ahead of its time story by Louisa May Alcott, Perilous Play.