1001 Stories From The Gilded Age (Formerly 1001 Greatest Love & Life Stories) brings you a wide mix of classic short stories and long-form family-friendly novels from the period between 1865 and 1920 a time when class showed itself in manners, speech, writing, knowledge, and behavior mattered. Most of our short stories here are written by women who were excellent writers. Many won Pulitzer Prizes and lived to see their novels become movies. As you savor their stories, let them challenge your intellect, expand your vocabulary, and increase your knowledge of a different society and culture- which it was. Enjoy!