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The book of love

By: Edited by Diane Ackerman and Jeanne MackinPublication details: New York ; London : W. W. Norton, c1998 Edition: 1st edDescription: xxxiii, 827 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0393045897Subject(s): 1. Love -- literary collectionsDDC classification: 808.803543 BOO
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Contents:
FICTION
Anonymous, Ancient Egypt The King's Son
Anonymous Inscription in the tomb of Queen Ahmose, wife of Tuthmosis I
Anonymous from Gilamesh
Longus from The Loves of Daphnis and Chloe
Apuleius of Madaura from The Metamorphoses or Golden Ass
Heliodorus from The Aethiopica
Anonymous from Aucassins and Nicolette
Marie de France The Lay of the Two Lovers
Sir Thomas Malory from Le Morte D'Arthur
Margaret, Queen of Navarre from The Heptameron
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra from Don Quijote de la Mancha
P'u Sung-ling The Young Lady of the Tung-T'ing Lake
Aphra Behn from Love Letters Between a Noble-Man and His Sister
Daniel Defoe from Moll Flanders
Samuel Richardson from The History of Clarissa Harlowe
Fanny Burney (Madame d'Arblay) from Evelina, or A Young Lady's Entrance into the World
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley from Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
Jane Austen from Pride and Prejudice
Charlotte Bronte from Jane Eyre
William Makepeace Thackeray from Vanity Fair
Emily Bronte from Wuthering Heights
Nathaniel Hawthorne from The Scarlet Letter
Gustave Flaubert from Madame Bovary
Thomas Carlyle from Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh
Benjamin Disraeli from Coningsby
Charles Dickens from David Copperfield
Anthony Trollope from An Old Man's Love
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) from The Lifted Veil
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) from The Diary of Adam and Eve
Leo Tolstoy from Anna Karenina and Resurrection
Ivan Turgenev from First Love
Anton Chekhov The Kiss
Anatole France from The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Richard Burton from The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Guy de Maupassant Love: Three Pages from a Sportsman's Book
Thomas Hardy from Under the Greenwood Tree and Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Sarah Orne Jewett from The Country of the Pointed Firs
Henry James from Daisy Miller: A Study
Kate Chopin Caline
Willa Cather A Resurrection
Oscar Wilde from The Importance of Being Earnest and The Nightingale and the Rose
O. Henry The Gift of the Magi
Edith Wharton from Summer
Bruno Schulz from Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Philippe Thoby-Marcelin and Pierre Marcelin from The Beast of the Haitian Hills
Thomas Wolfe from The Web and the Rock
Alice Adams Complicities
Kim Addonizio Survivors
Anthony Caputi from To Know the Wind Is Mortal
Nicholas Delbanco from Count Rumford: His Book
E.L. Doctrow Willi
Lamar Herrin from The Lies Boys Tell
Edward Hower Miriamu and the King
William Kennedy from Ironweed
Milan Kundera from The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Alison Lurie Something Borrowed, Something Blue
Jeanne Mackin from The Wise and Foolish Virgins
Robert Morgan from The Truest Pleasure
Bradford Morrow from The Almanac Branch
Stephen F. Poleskie Love and Janus Zyvka
Joanna Scott from The Manikin
Amy Tan from The Hundred Secret Senses
John Vernon from All for Love: Baby Doe and Silver Dollar
Paul West from Life with Swan
Hilma Wolitzer Sundays

POETRY
ESSAYS
MEMOIRS AND LETTERS

Includes index.

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