When Carrie Bradshaw in the "Sex and the City" movie began reading the book Love Letters of Great Men, millions of women wanted to get their hands on the book. This book is a collection of letters from (you guessed it) great men from throughout history to their love, or in some cases loves plural.

Yes, my adorable mistress, tonight I shall see you, even if I have to put my head on the block to do it. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Cynical as some of us like to claim we are, perhaps there's always a little part of us that yearns for old-fashioned romance.Goethe was released from day-to-day governmental duties to concentrate on writing, although he was still general supervisor for arts and sciences, and director of the court theatres.

I loved Napoleon’s letter to Josephine in Milan, and I also loved Mozart’s letters to Constanze sent from Dresden. I beg in your conduct not only to be careful of your honour and mine, but also to consider appearances. B. White – also known as Andy White – writing that “Andy and Katharine have been married for forty years, and in that time they have been separated so rarely that I find it impossible to think of one without the other. Queensbury claimed that Wilde had seduced a total of 12 boys to commit sodomy between 1892 and 1894 and made it his mission to oust Wilde in public about it. It is not that these are the most beautiful poems of the Victorian Age, but they are the most perceptive; they reveal more clearly the men and women who speak the monologues, and the poet who conceived them, than any comparable works of the century.A Hungarian composer, conductor, and pianist, Franz Liszt was a child prodigy who began studying piano with his father at the age of 6. His beloved Sonya bore him more than a dozen children over their many blissful and prosperous years together. He regrets that the means of replying has been withheld, and though his wishes are not of a nature that permits them to be published here, he hopes that at least his silence will be understood. From about 1822 to 1848, Liszt lived in Paris, where he came under the influence of Niccolo Paganini. As the author of this book points out, people seem to complain of how *cynical* everyone is today, especially as far as love goes.

Not this whole "WAH WAH ME ME ME, LOVE ME, OR ELSE I'LL JUST POSITIVELY KILL MYSELF, DON'T EVEN LOOK AT ANOTHER MAN" bullshit. I must watch you from the spirit land and hover near you, while you buffet the storms with your precious little freight, and wait with sad patience till we meet to part no more.This book has many such letters, including all of the love letters from the Sex and the City movie, and so much more. Many believe this was a suicide act, but others maintain it was accidental or that he was shot by neighboring kids with a "malfunctioning" gun.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Taken together, these letters show that perhaps men haven't changed all that much over the last 2,000 years, at least when it comes to love. White, to help him out to the extent of writing you a brief note which I haven’t done in quite a long time but have been a little sick myself as you know. I was at a book event where they sell slightly damaged books for cheap prizes and suddenly it was there!That collection never actually existed, but all of the letters referenced in the film were real; so Macmillan decided to create Love Letters of Great Men. Most letters weren't "romantic" enough, at most it was a flirtatious correspondence, also I had a problem with the male dominant nature of these "supervising" figures which doesn't sit well with my feminist thinking. O nascimento deste livro tem uma história muito curiosa e que realmente demonstra o poder da influência do público; grandes fãs de Sexo e a Cidade certamente lembrar-se-ão de um momento em que a Carrie e o Mr. The collection covers prolific men in history from the likes of King Henry VIII to Lord Nelson, Napoleon Bonaparte to Oscar Wilde, just to name a few. Overcome with love, feeling love in every pore, living only for love, and seeing oneself consumed by griefs, and caught in a thousand spiders’ threads.