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The Love Book
eBook - Classic and Contemporary Poems, Letters and Prose on the Wonderful (But Troublesome) Theme of Love
ISBN/EAN: 9781448191987
Umbreit-Nr.: 6453858
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 256 S., 2.05 MB
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 08.05.2014
Auflage: 1/2014
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p><b>An exquisite collection of the very best writing on love.</b></p><p><b><i>THE LOVE BOOK</i></b>presents a new anthology of writing on all aspects of the most important emotion on earth. Theres true love, unrequited love, erotic love, platonic love, thwarted love, comic love, mourned love and just about every other type of love, explored here in poetry, prose, letters and lyrics from the greatest writers in the English language.</p><p>In one fabulously comprehensive volume, Allie Esiri brings together texts ancient and modern, from William Shakespeare to Sharon Olds, Catullus to Carol Ann Duffy, the bible to Bob Dylan; she offers us sonnets for wooing, lamentations for loss and perfect passages for weddings. Full of classics and all-time favourites, THE LOVE BOOK also includes lesser-known marvels, such as Mozarts love notes, Sapphos lesbian odes and a letter from Napoleon.</p><p>Forget corny greeting cards and chocolate box cliché, this is<b>the literature of love at its finest</b>. Beautifully presented and helpfully divided into themed sections, its an indispensable collection for anyone whos ever had a heart.</p>
- Autorenportrait
- Allie Esiri, described in a recent<i>Tatler</i>profile as 'a poetry powerhouse', studied at St Catherine's College Cambridge. Her<i>iF Poems</i>App was launched to great acclaim in November 2011 and was Apple Editors' Choice All Time Favourite app.<i>iF: A Treasury of Poems for Every Possibility</i>was published in 2012.
- Schlagzeile
- A glorious cloth-bound collection of poetry, prose, letters and lyrics penned by the finest writers in the English language, about the most important emotion on earth.