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. For some
of these great men love is a 'delicious poison' (William Congreve) for others 'a nice soft
wife on a sofa with good fire & books & music' (Charles Darwin). Love can scorch like the heat
of the sun (Henry VIII) or penetrate the depths of one's heart like a cooling rain (Flaubert).
Every shade of love is here from the exquisite eloquence of Oscar Wilde and the simple
devotion of Robert Browning to the wonderfully modern misery of the Roman Pliny the Younger
losing himself in work to forget how much he misses his beloved wife Calpurnia. Taken together
these Love Letters of Great Men show that perhaps men haven't changed so very much over the
last 2 000 years passion jealousy hope and longing are all represented here - as is the
simple pleasure of sending a letter to and receiving one from the person you love most.
