The Book of Love
ISBN-13:
9780393045895
ISBN-10:
0393045897
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Diane Ackerman, Jeanne Mackin
Publication date:
1998
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Hardcover
864 pages
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Book details
ISBN-13:
9780393045895
ISBN-10:
0393045897
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Diane Ackerman, Jeanne Mackin
Publication date:
1998
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Hardcover
864 pages
Summary
The Book of Love (ISBN-13: 9780393045895 and ISBN-10: 0393045897), written by authors
Diane Ackerman, Jeanne Mackin, was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 1998.
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Description
Culled from love letters, poetry, fiction, personal essays, and memoirs, this lavish and fascinating anthology celebrates humankind's grandest pastime and obsession: love.
How do we define love? "It feels like hunger pains, and we use the same word. Pang. Perhaps this is why Cupid is depicted with a quiver of arrows, because love feels at times like being pierced in the chest. It is a wholesome violence. . . . People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets are lined with brocade cushions, and the sun never sets." So writes Diane Ackerman in her insightful introduction.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 suspicion, 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?" There are excerpts from Romeo and Juliet, Madame Bovary, Justine, The Odyssey, Lady Chatterley's Lover, as well as the letters from Baudelaire to Sabatier, George Eliot to Herbert Spencer, and Henry Miller to Anais Nin.
General readers and scholars alike will delight in this anthology's mix of the contemporary and the classic.
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