Short stories by Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, F. Marion Crawford, Guy de Maupassant, Sheridan Le Fanu, O. Henry, Saki, Rudyard Kipling, P.C. Wren and Vincent O'Sullivan
A Suitable Boy is Vikram Seth's epic love story set in India. Funny and tragic, with engaging, brilliantly observed characters, it is as close as you can get to Dickens for the twentieth century. The story unfolds through four middle class families - the Mehras, Kappoors, Khans and Chatterjis. Lata Mehra, a university student, is under pressure from...