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| The Book of Love | 
| Creators: Diane Ackerman, Jeanne Mackin
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 692467
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 864
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.8 x 1.9
ISBN: 0393045897
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.803543
EAN: 9780393045895
ASIN: 0393045897
Publication Date: January 1998
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Amazon.com Review
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," The Book of Love 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.
Product Description
A selection of letters, poetry, fiction, essays and memoirs, this book celebrates our greatest pastime and obsession. A treasury of more than 200 works, it is a panorama of the finest writing about the many moods and majesties of love, from all the veils of flirtation, seduction and marriage to the tempests of suspicion, jealousy and heartache. Here Oscar Wilde's "The Nightingale and the Rose" and Milan Kundera's "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" can be sampled. There are excerpts from "Romeo and Juliet", "Madame Bovary", "Justine", "The Odyssey" and "Lady Chatterley's Lover" along with selections from the "Karma Sutra" Benjamin Franklin's "Advising a Young Man as to the Selection of a Mistress" and Freud's "Delusion and Dream". Letters include those from Emilie du Chatelet to Richlieu, George Eliot to Herbert Spencer and Henry Miller to Anais Nin, while memoirs range from Colette's "Earthly Paradise" to Jan Morris' "God, Love and Abysinnian Cats".
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| Customer Reviews:
 Win points with your Valentine with this one! January 4, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Homework was done on this book, an anthology of some of history's best poets and thinkers on Love. Diane Ackerman starts off in the Intro with the age-old question ~What Is Love~ She writes, "It feels like hunger pains, and we use the same word. Pang." Nice to keep in your reception area, or great for the romantics on your list. Highly recommended anytime but makes a great Valentine's Day gift.
A great collection, although a bit thick April 9, 2002
This book provides a great collection of love-related essays, poems, and stories, as well as book excerpts. I tried, mistakenly, to read this book from cover to cover and got too bogged down. I think it is great for a reference (I used it to find one of the readings for my civil ceremony wedding), and great to pick up every now and then, open it randomly, and start reading. But, don't try to read it beginning to end!
 For those who love love. October 26, 2000
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a delightful collection, containing both the arcane and well-known classics. If I could send one book free to everyone I know, this would be the one.
There are some wonderful pieces in this book. April 12, 1999
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
I very much enjoyed this compilation. It contains a wonderful piece by Joe McConkey, "Idyll", that I am grateful to have discovered. I read a library copy, but plan to buy one to keep.
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