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Love Letters Of Great Men And Women: From The Eighteenth Century To The Present Day
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Product Description
This wonderful collection of timeless love letters includes the words of Ludwig Van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Winston Churchill, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Napoleon Bonaparte, John Keats, King Henry VIII, Voltaire, Vincent Van Gogh, Charlotte Bronte, Lord Byron, Lewis Carrol, Leo Tolstoy, Pierre Curie, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and many more.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #222999 in Books
- Published on: 2008-07-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 352 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
C. H. Charles set out in the 1920s to establish what made the perfect love letter, investigating those written by some of the best-known men and women from history. This collection is the result of his endeavours.
Customer Reviews
not a great version
I have just bought and read this book, having heard about it on Sex and The City the Movie..
I suspect that the publisher rushed this edition of the book ( published June 2008) in order to meet the demands of the public after the movie release date (May 2008). You can tell it was a rush job - there are many typographical errors throughout and the general quality is not what I was expecting. It's a really slim soft-bound edition. It also claims that the letters are all from the 18th century onwards, when quite clearly some of them are from the 1200s, 1400s...overall, it looks quite sloppy. I was going to give it as a gift, but don't think the quality is good enough.
Now I wish I'd checked out the slightly more expensive, original edition - though I can't vouch for the quality of that as I haven't seen it!
The page count for this volume is also half that of the original (which is 300+ pages) - so perhaps the content isn't quite the same? Again, I have no proof of that - just a suspicion.
The content makes for great reading - but I find it annoying that there are so many errors throughout. A shame!
Disappointing
Service was good but the title of the book is misleading. No letters beyond early 20th C so much of it is quite dry.
