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Title: Book of Love
Author: Diane Ackerman
ISBN: 9780393045895
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1998
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 864
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: Culled from love letters, poetry, fiction, personal essays, and memories, this anthology celebrates humankind's grandest pastime and obsession: love. Here is a panorama of fine writing about love's many moods and majesties, from all the veils of flirtation, seduction, and marriage to the tempests of suspicions, jealousy, and heartache. Here is a treasury of more than two hundred selections - from Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 'How Do I Love Thee?'" to poems by John Ashbery, Louise Gluck, and Jorie Graham. There are excerpts from 'Romeo and Juliet, ' "Madame Bovary," "The Odyssey," "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting," and "Ironweed," as well as letters from Baudelaire to Sabatier, George Eliot to Herbert Spencer, and Henry Miller to Anais Nin. A delightful mix of the contemporary and the classic.
Author: Diane Ackerman
ISBN: 9780393045895
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1998
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 864
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: Culled from love letters, poetry, fiction, personal essays, and memories, this anthology celebrates humankind's grandest pastime and obsession: love. Here is a panorama of fine writing about love's many moods and majesties, from all the veils of flirtation, seduction, and marriage to the tempests of suspicions, jealousy, and heartache. Here is a treasury of more than two hundred selections - from Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 'How Do I Love Thee?'" to poems by John Ashbery, Louise Gluck, and Jorie Graham. There are excerpts from 'Romeo and Juliet, ' "Madame Bovary," "The Odyssey," "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting," and "Ironweed," as well as letters from Baudelaire to Sabatier, George Eliot to Herbert Spencer, and Henry Miller to Anais Nin. A delightful mix of the contemporary and the classic.
