Love Letters of Great Men

Ursula Doyle

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Macmillan Collector's Library
29 January 2019

Diaries, letters & journals; Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Anthologies (non-poetry); Romance; Dating, relationships, living together & marriage; Gift books

Series: Macmillan Collector's Library

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This edition is edited and introduced by publisher Ursula Doyle.

From the private papers of Mark Twain and Mozart to those of Robert Browning and Nelson, Love Letters of Great Men collects together some of the most romantic letters in history.

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, who loses himself in work to forget how much he misses his beloved wife, Calpurnia.

Taken together, these Love Letters of Great Men show that perhaps men haven't changed so very much over the last 2,000 years; passion, jealousy, hope and longing are all described here - as is the simple pleasure of sending a letter to, and receiving one from, the person you love most.

Edited by: Ursula Doyle
Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 159mm, Width: 102mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 128g
ISBN: 9781509895304
ISBN 10: 1509895302
Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 29 January 2019
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

The most heartfelt romantic letters from: Pliny the Younger, King Henry VIII, William Congreve, Richard Steele, George Farquhar, Alexander Pope, David Hume, Laurence Sterne, Denis Diderot, Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lord Nelson, Robert Burns, Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Napoleon Bonaparte, Daniel Webster, Ludwig van Beethoven, William Hazlitt, Lord Byron, John Keats, Honore de Balzac, Victor Hugo, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Benjamin Disraeli, Charles Darwin, Alfred de Musset, Robert Schumann, Robert Browning, Gustave Flaubert, Walter Bagehot, Mark Twain, William F. Testerman, Charles Stewart Parnell, Oscar Wilde, Pierre Curie, G. K. Chesterton, Captain Alfred Bland, Regimental Sergeant-Major James Milne and Second Lieutenant John Lindsay Rapoport.

Reviews for Love Letters of Great Men

Inspired by the Sex and the City movie . . . Famous men caught with pen in hand and heart in mouth * The Times * Love Letters will sell boatloads of books * Entertainment Weekly * Pan has pioneered the art of product placement in reverse * The Observer * The most romantic book ever * Daily Mail *