Love Letters of Great Men and Women

Book excerpt: "Love Letters of Great Men and Women: From The Eighteenth Century To The Present Day" is a collection of love letters written between 1688 and 1910. Letters within this book were featured in the 2008 feature film "Sex and the City." This charming volume includes a short treatise on love letter writing by the editor as well as love letters by notable historical figures including Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne, Samuel Johnson, William Congreve, Lady Montague, Horace Walpole, George IV, Louis XV, Catherine the Great, Denis Diderot, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, Johann Goethe, Benjamin Constant, Napoleon, Lord Nelson, Robert Burns, John Keats, Shelley, Lord Byron, Victor Hugo, Stendhal, Honore de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, George Sand, Guy de Maupassant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henrik Ibsen, Leo Tolstoy and many others.