The Varieties of Romantic Experience: Stories Book

I suppose it is considered talent, in more enlightened circles, to write such moody, dull works under the guise of an "well-if-you-don't-like-it-you-must-not-get-it-or-anyone-in-my-restricted-circle-of-educated-poetic-deeply-impressionable-mysterious-high-brow-souls" sort of attitude. I found these works interesting at times, but for the most part, lacking in any variety at all. The narrator could easily have been the same person in each story. Perhaps a more fitting title may have been "The Experiences of Depressed and Confused Individuals Living in a Bubble in which They, and Only They, are Important in this World, and Even Then Still Doubt Their Own Importance in an Equally Doubtful Universe." But then, that is a rather long title.