The Love of Money: 56 Classic Stories About Greed. Susan Ives, editor.
6"x9", 358 pages. $15. ISBN: 1449563554
The Love of Money is an anthology of 56 classic stories about greed. The first section, "Once Upon a Time," includes 36 fables, folk tales and children's stories about greed. The second section, "The Love of Money is the Root of all Evil," consists of 14 classic short stories about greed, including: How Much Land Does a Man Need? (Leo Tolstoy); Gooseberries (Anton Chekhov); The Devil and Tom Walker (Washington Irving); The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (Mark Twain); Very Poor (T.S. Arthur); Will It Pay? (Mary Roberts Rinehart); The Name Day (Saki); A Family (Guy de Maupassant): The Necklace (Guy de Maupassant); Bertha (Guy de Maupassant); A Spirit of Avarice (W.W. Jacobs); The Soul Of Nicholas Snyders, Or The Miser Of Zandam (Jerome K. Jerome); The Other Side of the Hedge (E.M. Forester); and The Rocking Horse Winner (D.H. Lawrence). In the last section, "Love is Patient, Love is Kind," we encounter six stories of overcoming greed: The Wise Woman’s Stone (Traditional); A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens); The Selfish Giant (Oscar Wilde); The Other Wise Man (Henry Van Dyke); Salt of the Earth (George Gissing); and The Gift Of The Magi (O. Henry).