The Family Reader Author:Compiled by Marjorie Barrows This is a book for your lighter moments, when you want to relax and lose yourself in a good short story.This is a collection of delightful short stories by universally loved writers. You will meet many of your old friends in these pages, and make many new ones.The book represents months of search by the editors for "friendly" stories--stories th... more »at would share with the reader the warmth of human experience. There is plenty of romance and young love, humor, suspence.« less