The Wheel of Love and Other Stories is the third short story collection by Joyce Carol Oates. It was published in 1970 by Vanguard Press.
While the book itself is out of print, several of the stories—Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, "Unmailed, Unwritten Letters," "In the Region of Ice," and "Wild Saturday"—have been included in other collections and anthologies.
Famous quotes containing the words wheel, love and/or stories:
“The wheel is come full circle.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I like a church; I like a cowl;
I love a prophet of the soul;
And on my heart monastic aisles
Fall like sweet strains, or pensive smiles;
Yet not for all his faith can see
Would I that cowled churchman be.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Fairy tales are loved by the child not because the imagery he finds in them conforms to what goes on within him, but because—despite all the angry, anxious thoughts in his mind to which the fairy tale gives body and specific content—these stories always result in a happy outcome, which the child cannot imagine on his own.”
—Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)