- 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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