50 Great Love Letters You Have To Read (Golden Deer Classics)

If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter speaks a thousand more . . .

Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter. Love letters express the spectrum of our emotions, offering a colorful glimpse into the soul of the writer, and of the writer's beloved. For passionate readers and lovers of words, a letter is irresistible.

List of letters included:

Ludwig van Bethoveen - The Immortal Beloved
Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas
Emma Darwin to Charles Darwin
Vita Sackville-West & Virginia Woolf - Love Letters
Honoré de Balzac to Countess Ewelina Haska
Napoleon Bonaparte to Joséphine de Beauharnais
John Keats to Fanny Brawne
Lord Byron to Teresa Guiccioli
Voltaire to Olympe Dunover
Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn
Leo Tolstoy to Valeria Arsenev
Gustave Flaubert to Louise Colet
Nathaniel Hawthorne to Sophia Hawthorne
Jack London to Anna Strunsky
Johann von Goethe to Charlotte von Stein
James Joyce to Nora Barnacle
Abigail Adams to John Adams
Sullivan Ballou to Sarah Ballou
Harriet Beecher Stowe to Her Husband, Calvin
Pietro Bembo to Lucrezie Borgia
Charlotte Brontë to Constantin Heger
Lewis Carroll to Gertrude Chataway
Catherine Of Aragon to Henri VIII
Mark Twain to Olivia Langdon
John Constable to Maria
Oliver Cromwell to Elizabeth Cromwell
Ninon De L'Enclos to One Of Her Lovers
Alfred de Musset to Amantine Aurore Dudevant
Zelda Fitzgerald to F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mary Wollstonecraft to William Godwin
Heloise - Letter to Peter Abelard
Count Gabriel Honore de Mirbeau to Sophie
Lyman Hodge to Mary Granger, His Fiancee
King Henry IV Of France to Gabrielle d'Estrées
Franz Liszt to the Countess d'Agoult
Katherine Mansfield to John Middleton Murry
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to his wife Constanze
Thomas Otway to Mrs Barry
Ovid to his wife
Robert Schumann to Clara Wieck
Vincent Van Gogh to Theo, his brother
Tsarina Alexandra to Tsar Nicholas II Of Russia
Laura Lyttleton - Letter to Alfred, Her Husband