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Love Letters Of Great Men by John C. Kirkland
4.0

Shakespeare writes in the afterword that “It is perhaps not surprising how intensely men of great accomplishment can love the objects of their desires. What may be less expected is that puissance of raw emotion may correlate as easily to conjugal cataclysm as to happily ever after. (..) Men of greatness may be guilty of many things, but apathy is rarely one of them.” No sentiment could better capture the content of this collection.

I am particularly appreciative of the love letters written by Beethoven, Lord Byron, Victor Hugo, Tolstoy, Ballou, and Currie.