Love letters of great men

140 Pages·2008·1.72 MB·English

by  Kirkland

Love
Letters
of
Great
Men

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Vol. 1

John C. Kirkland
Love Letters of Great Men
Volume One
Copyright © 2008 John C. Kirkland
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Love letters of great men, volume 1 / compilation and commentary by John C.
Kirkland
1. Love-letters. I. Title. Love letters of great men, volume 1. II. Kirkland, John
C.
First edition
Published in the United States of America
For her
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations 3
Foreword
The Poet Warrior 5
First Century
Ovid 9
Pliny the Younger 12
Sixteenth Century
Henry VIII 14
Henry the Great 17
Seventeenth Century
Sir Walter Raleigh 20
Oliver Cromwell 24
Eighteenth Century
Voltaire 27
George Washington 29
Goethe 31
Robert Burns 33
Mozart 35
Napoléon 38
Early Nineteenth Century
Beethoven 41
Lord Byron 45
Keats 48
Victor Hugo 51
Franz Liszt 54
Nathaniel Hawthorne 56
Shelley 59
Robert Browning 61
Gustave Flaubert 63
Edgar Allen Poe 65
Late Nineteenth Century
Leo Tolstoy 68
Balzac 70
Robert Schumann 72
Maj. Sullivan Ballou 75
Mark Twain 78
Van Gogh 80
Lewis Carroll 85
Pierre Curie 88
George Bernard Shaw 90
Twentieth Century
Jack London 93
Admiral Peary 96
Kafka 98
Woodrow Wilson 100
Afterword
What’s Past is Prologue 129
Index 131
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List of Illustrations
St. George and the Dragon (1890) 4
Ovid, from the Book of Chronicles (1493) 9
King Henry VIII, portrait (1540) 16
Sir Walter Raleigh, portrait (1585) 23
Dictionnaire philosophique by Voltaire (1764) 31
Goethe, portrait (1788) 36
Mozart, family portrait (1764) 41
Napoléon Crossing the St. Bernard Pass (1805) 45
Beethoven, portrait (1803) 49
Lord Byron, portrait (1809) 54
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (1862) 62
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1860) 68
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1831) 73
Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe (1919) 81
Robert and Clara Schumann, portrait (1847) 88
The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh (1889) 98
Photographic plate by Lewis Carroll (1873) 104
Pierre and Marie Curie, photograph (1905) 108
Jack London, photograph (1914) 114
Admiral Peary, photograph (1910) 118
War Message by Woodrow Wilson (1917) 12
Connla and the Fairy Maiden (1909) 128
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St. George and the Dragon by
Gustave Moreau (1890)
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