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Love Letters (by chosen by Antonia Fraser)

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Love Letters
 

Love Letters
(by chosen by Antonia Fraser)

$15.00

ISBN: 0712620575

  • 1989 edition,  192 pages
  • Published by Barrie & Jenkins, London
  • Hardcover with dust jacket, blue boards
  • Very good condition, minor dust jacket wear and fading

An illustrated anthology chosen by Antonia Fraser.  Biographical Details included. 

As Edith Wharton put it " The love letter, with its power to delight or to wound, its crucial sentiments, is timeless".   This sumptuously illustrated edition of Antonia Fraser's classic anthology will charm a new generation.

"I choose the letters in if for reasons of personal predilection" writes Antonia Fraser,  "and following my fancy, I have gone for the heart on the sleeve, or at any rate on paper, the heart that shows".  

The letters are grouped according to the emotions they convey:  Passions, Ecstasies and Total Love, Fears, Worries and Jealousies.  Here are Declarations and Pleas, and also Farewells and Separations.  

The lovers or would be loved range from the famous and expected  - Heloise and Abelard, Jane Carlyle, Vanessa to Swift, Byron, Zelda Fitzgerald, Napoleon, Henry VIII, Goethe, Keats and Mozart   - to lesser known but equally poignant correspondents:  there is Bert Fielder, a soldier in the trenches in the First World War, an anonymous suicide note of the 1920s quoted by Aldous Huxley, a Japanese wife of the sixteenth century.

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