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Love Letters of Great Men
Ursula Doyle
St. Martin's Press
December 2008
On Sale: November 28, 2008
140 pages
ISBN: 0312567448
EAN: 9780312567446
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Remember the wonderfully romantic book of love letters that
Carrie reads aloud to Big in the recent blockbuster film,
Sex and the City? Fans raced to buy copies of their
own, only to find out that the beautiful book didn't
actually exist. However, since all of the letters
referenced in the film did exist, we decided to publish
this gorgeous keepsake ourselves. Love Letters
of Great Men follows hot on the heels of the film and
collects together some of history's most romantic letters
from the private papers of Beethoven, Mark Twain,
Mozart, and Lord Byron. For some of these great men, love is
"a delicious poison" (William Congreve); for others, "a nice
soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music"
(Charles Darwin). Love can scorch like the heat of the sun
(Henry VIII), or penetrate the depths of one's heart like a
cooling rain (Flaubert). Every shade of love is here, from
the exquisite eloquence of Oscar Wilde and the simple
devotion of Robert Browning, to the wonderfully modern
misery of the Roman Pliny the Younger, losing himself in
work to forget how much he misses his beloved wife,
Calpurnia.
Taken together,
these letters show that perhaps men haven't
changed all that much over the last 2,000 years--passion,
jealousy, hope and longing still rule their hearts and
minds. In an age of e-mail and texted "i luv u"s, this
timeless and unique collection reminds us that nothing can
compare to the simple joy of sitting down to read a letter
from the one you love.
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