Eric M. reviewed on 9/24/2013 + 20 more book reviews

"34 of the world's greatest love letters & the romantic stories behind them. See the world's great romances from the inside out. Read the private love correspondence of: Ovid to his wife, Ariwara no Narihira to the Imperial Princess; Pietro Bembo to Lucrezia Borgia; Henry IV to Gabrielle d'Estrees'; John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, to Elizabeth Barry; Johann von Goethe to Charlotte von Stein; George Bernard Shaw to Ellen Terry; Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., to his wife, Bunny; Napoleon to Josephine; Ludwig van Beethoven to the "Immortal Beloved"; Lord Byron to Teresa Guiccioli; Franz Liszt to Marie d'Agoult; Victor Hugo to Juliette Drouet; Lord Randolph Churchill to Jennie Jerome; Henri Gaudier to Sophie Brzeska; Leos Janacek to Kamila Stosslova; and more!"

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