The Tales of Belkin (Hesperus Classics)

“She looked much better than he had expected.”

Liza dresses like a peasant girl just to talk to her crush. It makes you realize how much fun courting used to be before apps.

“Do not the dead provide our daily bread?”

Adrian the undertaker gets offended when people don't toast to his corpses. Even people in grim jobs want their work respected.

“The wind howled. The snow fell in thick flakes.”

A blizzard ruins a secret wedding and changes three lives forever. Destiny can be as simple as a wrong turn in the snow.

“Fate had played a strange trick on them.”

Marya ends up marrying the man she accidentally wed in the dark. Life has a weird way of looping back to where you started.