The Book of love : writers and their love letters

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Location	Collection	Call #
Carnegie Library of McKeesport - White Oak	Non Fiction	808.86 B644
Location	Carnegie Library of McKeesport - White Oak
Collection	Non Fiction
Call Number	808.86 B644

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Publisher's Weekly Review: "Delightful and insightful, this collection explores the many varietes of love letters. Divided into six parts--from ``Falling in Love'' to ``Absence'' to ``The End of Love''--as well as several subsections, the book includes writers from Sappho to Stendhal, Walt Whitman to Vaclav Havel. While some missives illuminate famous romances, less expected letters also intrigue: Emma Goldman's plea to a married man (``You have opened up the prison gates of my womanhood''), Civil War soldier Sullivan Ballou's pre-battle message to his wife (``Sarah, my love for you is deathless''), nurse Agnes von Kurowsky's rejection of 19-year-old Ernest Hemingway (``Ernie, dear boy'') and the imprisoned Nelson Mandela's advice for his distant daughter (``never . . . allow anybody . . . to bully you''). Davidson, a professor of English literature at Duke University, prefaces each letter with informative biographical comments that are often as engrossing as the letters themselves. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved"
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Additional Information

Subjects	Love-letters. Authors -- Correspondence.
Publisher	New York :Pocket Books,1992
Contributors	Davidson, Cathy N., 1949-
Language	English
Description	xiv, 302 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Notes	Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-299).
ISBN	0671701339 :
Other	Classic View