Love Letters Of Great Men - Vol. 1

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curioso ver como eram os grandes cérebros da musica, das letras, da ciência nos bastidores de alcova. In a world constantly evolving with technology and changing social dynamics, the art of expressing love remains timeless.

There are also many beautiful period illustrations, which really give you a feel for the time the letters were written.

Ernest Hemingway, who was greatly influenced by Fitzgerald's short stories, wrote that Fitzgerald's talent was "as fine as the dust on a butterfly's wing. Well, the truth is White is beside himself and would have said more about it but is holding himself back, not wanting to appear ludicrous to a veteran mother. Each letter is preceded by a short description of who the great man and the object/s of his affection were and a different side to these well-known names is revealed. After a struggling apprenticeship, London hit literary paydirt by combining memories of his adventures with Darwinian and Spencerian evolutionary theory, the Nietzchean concept of the "superman" and a Kipling-influenced narrative style. This is a collection of love letters but the history about the love affairs informing the letters, are even more interesting than the letters themselves.

The letters start with Pliny the Younger and then span the period between the 17th century and the 1910s. p>From the private papers of Mark Twain and Mozart to those of Robert Browning and Nelson, Love Letters of Great Men collects together some of the most romantic letters in history. And then there's Napoleon who always thought about war and women, the eloquent Oscar Wilde and so many more. This has proven itself my favourite passage as, aside from its undoubted wit, excellent writing and genius creativity, it all derived from an ordinary moment lost among all the other ordinary moments throughout time.In just a few months, he wrote the odes "On a Grecian Urn" (1819), "To a Nightingale" (1819), "To Melancholy" (1819), and the marvelously serene "To Autumn" (1819). Rather than tell you all of the letters, I’ve picked my favourite three all for very different reasons. 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.

At the age of 9, he gave his first public performance and a year later went to Vienna, where he studied with Karl Czerny and Antonio Salieri. When two souls, who have sought each other for however long in the throng, have finally found each other… a union, fiery and pure as they themselves are… begins on earth and continues forever in heaven. Before I read this book, I always had a stereotype about men, that it is not easy for them to express their feelings.Gostei de as ler, remontam a uma época em que falar de amor não parecia ridículo e são seguramente mais românticas que um SMS cheio de abreviaturas ou bonequinhos. I can live, as I live, without disgrace, until the inevitable progress of events give me that independence which is all I require.

Your letter gave me more delight than anything in the world but yourself could do; indeed, I am almost astonished that any absent one should have the luxurious power over my senses which I feel.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. One of the men (and by this point I was so fed up with this, I didn't note which) referred to a woman as a literal "object" that he desired. They added a nice touch by giving some background info on the relationship or which stadium of life the different letters were written in. On the occasions when they have been obliged to be apart, Andy’s conversation is so likely to center on Katharine that she becomes all the more present for being absent. These letters reveal the fears, insecurities, and hopes of great men, reminding us that even those who shaped history were not immune to the complexities of love.