All the stories in this were sort of downers? And I questioned the inclusion of some of them. "Lilacs" would have been a much better Chopin story than "Fedora". All the stories were just really depressing, either about unrequited love or someone dying, or the last one which was just about beards. I liked the introduction which has a pretty good justification for why the stories were chosen, but I stopped reading the intros to each story because they would spoil it (like the Long Arm is a murder mystery, and the introduction spoils the ending entirely!) A lot of the stories use the setting of a Boston Marriage which is something that I didn't know much about and so it was interesting to learn about those for sure. "My Lorelei" was probably the best story in the book but yeah again the ending very depressing. ( )