title: The Book of Love: Writers and Their Love Letters
author: Cathy N. Davidson
description: 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. <br />Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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