书名：Love Letters of Great Men and Women伟大的情书
作者：Ursula Doyle
出版社名称：Pan Books
出版时间：2010
语种：英语
ISBN：9780330515139
商品尺寸：13 x 2 x 19.7 cm
包装：平装
页数：320（以实物为准）

Don’t worry that love letters are a thing of the past

不用担心情书过时，在信息越来越廉价的时代，

一封情书反而可以保持得更久。

《伟大的情书》是一本精彩绝伦的文集，它收录了名人们所书写的动人、浪漫，而且常常让我们难以置信的情书。

从马克-吐温、莫扎特，到罗伯特-勃朗宁、纳尔逊的私人信函，《伟大的情书》将有史以来名人们书写的浪漫的情书收集在了这一本书里。

From the private papers of Jane Austen and Mozart to those of Anne Boleyn and Nelson, Love Letters of Great Men and Women 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). But what about the other side of the story? What of the secret hopes and lives of some of the greatest women in history?

Taken together, these love letters show that perhaps little has changed 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.