The Garnet Bracelet

Love, as represented by Kuprin, is a force that creates a personality, one of the highest values in a person's life. Indeed, the highest great love is as mysterious and rare a gift as genius or talent. By missing such a gift, a person realizes that they are losing something significant, irreparable in life, that "great love" has passed them by. Sometimes a person simply cannot find the inner strength to respond to such love, and their life is forever broken.

The theme of all-consuming love that captures a person wholly, entirely and completely, is embodied in the best works of Alexander Kuprin about love, included in this book.