Leonard Merrick (1864-1939) was a well-known English novelist who was popular with the likes of H. G. Wells, J. M. Barrie, G. K. Chesterton and William Dean Howells. Many of his stories have, over the years, been adapted to the screen. J. M. Barrie called Merrick the 'novelist's novelist'.
The Cafè of the Broken Heart is situated near the cemetery at Monmartre. When a widow calls by on the last day of the year and asks for a private room to grieve on the third anniversary of the death of her late husband, she is irritated to learn that the room is already occupied. She gets into conversation with the other mourner - a young artist - and discovers that he has a very strange story to tell.
A wonderful collection of great classic love stories for the incurable romantic in all of us.
'The Scrupulous Father' by George Gissing
'The Marquise' by George Sand
'Her Lover' by Maxim Gorky
'A Long-Ago Affair' by John Galsworthy
'A Dill Pickle' by Katherine Mansfield
'Portrait of a Lady' by Jerome K. Jerome
'The Pig and Whistle' by George Gissing
'A Race for a Bride' by H. K. Hales
'The Christmas Tree and the Wedding' by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
'The Girl Who Was Tired of Love' by Leonard Merrick
'The Box Tunnel' by Charles Reade
'The Judgement of Paris' by Leonard Merrick
'The Singing Lesson' by Katherine Mansfield
'Who Was She?' by Bayard Taylor
'The Storm' by Kate Chopin
'The Greater Battle' by John Buchan
'The Furnished Room' by O. Henry
'Eleonora' by Edgar Allan Poe
'The Story of Brave Kasper and Fair Annie' by Clemens Brentano
'The Scholar' by Ludwig Tieck
'Lancelot and Guinivere' by Andrew Lang
'Cupid and Psyche' by Apulius
