title: The Book of Love
author: Diane Ackerman
description: 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," <i>The Book of Love</i> 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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  # Madelon
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  Chapter I
  
  
  Chapter II
  
  
  Chapter III
  
  
  Chapter IV
  
  
  Chapter V
  
  
  Chapter VI
  
  
  Chapter VII
  
  
  Chapter VIII
  
  
  Chapter IX
  
  
  Chapter X
  
  
  Chapter XI
  
  
  Chapter XII
  
  
  Chapter XIII
  
  
  Chapter XIV
  
  
  Chapter XV
  
  
  Chapter XVI
  
  
  Chapter XVII
  
  
  Chapter XVIII
  
  
  Chapter XIX
  
  
  Chapter XX
  
  
  Chapter XXI
  
  
  Chapter XXII
  
  
  Chapter XXIII
  
  
  Chapter XXIV
  
  
  Chapter XXV
  
  
  Chapter XXVI
  
  
  Chapter XXVII
  
  
  Chapter XXVIII
  
  
  Chapter XXIX
  
  
  
  
  
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      Madelon
  
  
  A Novel
  
  
  
  
      
  
  Produced by Jeff Kaylin and Andrew Sly
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Madelon
  
  
  A Novel
  
  
  By
  
  
  Mary E. Wilkins
  
  
  Author of “A Humble Romance” “Jane Field” etc.
  
  
  New York Harper &Brothers Publishers 1896
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Love is the crown, and the crucifixion, of life,
  
  
  and proves thereby its own divinity.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Chapter I
  
  
  
  
  
    
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