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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.803543
EAN num: 9780393045895
ISBN number: 0393045897
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 864
Printing Date: 1998-01
Publishing house: W. W. Norton & Company
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Culled from love letters, poetry, fiction, personal essays, and memoirs, this lavish and fascinating anthology celebrates love--humankind's grandest pastime and obsession. Included are more than 200 selections from such noteworthy writers as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Gustave Flaubert, George Eliot, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, and Andrew Marvell Valentine's Day promo. Web site feature.
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A celebration of love and its 'many moods and majesties, from all the veils of flirtation, seduction, and marriage to the tempests of suspicions, jealousy, and heartache,' The Book of Love gathers together some 200 contemporary and classic selections of fiction, poetry, personal essays, love letters, and memories. Included in this extravagant anthology are the works of Shakespeare, Baudelaire, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and William Blake. The perfect gift for those in love with love.
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Homework was done on this book, an anthology of some of history's best poets and thinkers on Love. Diane Ackerman starts off in the Intro with the age-old question ~What Is Love~ She writes, "It feels like hunger pains, and we use the same word. Pang." Nice to keep in your reception area, or great for the romantics on your list. Highly recommended anytime but makes a great Valentine's Day gift.
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This book provides a great collection of love-related essays, poems, and stories, as well as book excerpts. I tried, mistakenly, to read this book from cover to cover and got too bogged down. I think it is great for a reference (I used it to find one of the readings for my civil ceremony wedding), and great to pick up every now and then, open it randomly, and start reading. But, don't try to read it beginning to end!
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This is a delightful collection, containing both the arcane and well-known classics. If I could send one book free to everyone I know, this would be the one.
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I very much enjoyed this compilation. It contains a wonderful piece by Joe McConkey, "Idyll", that I am grateful to have discovered. I read a library copy, but plan to buy one to keep.
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