Classic Love

Love and Mr Lewisham is a hugely uplifting tale from the pen of one of our greatest writers. Wells drew on his own experience as a young teacher to provide the background and, one suspects, the emotional drama. The plot enables him to satirise the educational establishment and deliver many wry observations on Victorian morality and the obsession with the supernatural. One day Mr Lewisham sits at his makeshift desk at his lodgings. He is an assistant master at Whortley proprietary school.

I watch her through her window at night. I know exactly how many freckles she has on her face. I even have a shrine dedicated to her in my home. I know it's not healthy, but I can't stop myself. I’ve been in love with Misty for as long as I can remember. She consumes me. The only problem? She’s my best friend. Obsessive, possessive and over the top, these men will do anything to get the women they love. But their love is all-consuming and knows no boundaries—so much so that they become stalkers. Forget sugar and spice and everything nice. These stalkers will show you how it’s done, ...

About 50% of marriages in the United States will end in divorce. Many couples that don't get divorced end up unhappy. You know what I mean, because you've seen it. People with every intention of having a happy marriage and staying together for better , for worse - they just weren't able to make it happen and walked away defeated. Mary Emily and Ben Goodwin have dedicated their lives to helping couples have better relationships. This is an updated version of their classic marriage manual.

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novella, White Nights, was originally published in 1848. The tender narrative is an appealing blend of realism and romanticism. A daydreamer, the hero is a lonely young man in Saint Petersburg who lives in a fantasy world. After a chance encounter, he falls in love with a young woman, Nastenka, whom he meets in the same place over four nights. Sharing a sense of alienation, they exchange information on their respective backgrounds and grow fond of one another in a short time.

"Love and Freindship" ("Love & Friendship") tells the story of Laura and Marianne. These two women write to each other about romance and wild coincidences which takes place in their everyday lives. But what adds to the charm of the story is Jane Austen’s inimitable wit and her parody of the traditional romantic conventions whose beginnings are visible in this early work of fiction.

Joy Anderson was innocent, young, and trusting when she met Gabe Venture. An aspiring journalist with worlds to conquer, Gabe came to New Mexico to explore the natural wonders of Lost River Cave, with Joy acting as his guide. Surrounded by staggering beauty they both surrendered to a passion too powerful to deny - and Joy gave herself freely to the most extraordinary man she had ever known.

Jake escapes his horrific captivity as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. Cassie is a caregiver at the military hospital and nurses Jake back to health. Their love begins over a bowl of Jell-O and carries them back home to the Kansas farm. Everywhere life takes them, there are others with the same haunting dreams of war. Some have only one leg and some have none. Some have just lost their way home. Cassie and Jake begin with one person at a time and over 27 years, hundreds of vets find a little peace on the bank of the farm pond, and they learn to reach back and help another buddy up the hill. The best and the worst of us live in these words and the depth of Jake and Cassie's love can be understood only in the context of the world they dared to change.

Paul Kelly's songs are steeped in poetry. And now he has gathered from around the world the poems he loves - poems that have inspired and challenged him over the years, a number of which he has set to music. This wide-ranging and deeply moving anthology combines the ancient and the modern, the hallowed and the profane, the famous and the little known, to speak to two of literature's great themes that have proven so powerful in his music: love and death - plus everything in between.

This book is the basis for Whit Stillman's feature film Love and Friendship starring Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny.

A wonderful collection of classic stories on the theme of love. A must-listen for the incurable romantic.

Pin Up Dolls & Classic Cars is a love story overlapping the coronavirus pandemic. No one appreciates simple pleasures until they're canceled. Gearheads and dolls needed each other to flaunt their curves and powerful, creative builds. Kids were weaponized through parental alienation. COVID lockdowns sharpened our losses and priorities. Would bad behavior and impossible circumstances keep two lovers apart?

“After listening to me for a few moments he continued: That is good. You will go and interview certain men and women, first upon the age at which one loves the most, next upon the age when one is most loved? Is that your idea? And now to whom will you go first?” Listen to “The Age of Love” by Paul Bourget who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times, on SesleKitap.

هو فن من فنون الأدب الروسي،مجموعة قصصية تتكون من 54 قصة،تسلط الضوء على مواقف كشافة قد توهم النظر بأنها سطحية و عابرة،بواسطة مزيج أسلوبي يمكن أن ندعوه بالفكاهة التهكمية الحزينة،فهي لا تقوم على أساس الحب كما يوهم العنوان،ففيها الكثير من الحماقات والخيبات وأيضاً الإبتسامات والضحكات .ف.

كعادة جميع روايات نجيب محفوظ التي تدور أحداثها في الحارات الشعبية المصرية تبدأ أحداث هذه الرواية بوجود بطلتها (بدرية) التي يتنافس على الفوز بقلبها الصديقان؛ حمدي الممثل بأحد مسارح روض الفرج وعزت التاجر.

منتصف الليل، يدق جرس السفينة. يتحسسك المجهول بعين لا تراها. يقف وراءك ضاحكاً منك وأنت تبحث في زحمة الأشياء عن شيء يشبهك. إنه هنا، جامد في مكانه، يجلس لا مبالياً. وفجأة، دون أي سبب واضح، يثب من مقعده ويهرول إلى الطرقات. يركض ويركض بلا توقف وقد تلبست به حمى الـ "الآموك".

In all things that he did, Flora's well-being was the doctor's paramount consideration. He brought pleasant people to his house; men of professional standing, and their wives. He sought to win friends for her, and the gentle charm of her manner endeared her to the people he brought about her, almost in spite of herself. To know her was to love her.

Amar, verbo intransitivo é um romance publicado em 1941 pelo escritor brasileiro Mário de Andrade. A obra retrata a vida boêmia da elite cultural paulistana dos anos 1930 e aborda temas como a liberdade sexual e de costumes. A trama gira em torno de um triângulo amoroso entre um escritor, uma médica e um estudante de direito. Ao longo da narrativa, os personagens refletem sobre o amor, o desejo e as convenções sociais da época. Considerado uma obra-prima da ficção modernista brasileira, o livro inovou estilisticamente ao mesclar poesia, prosa e diálogos.

When Donahue walks out, Dr. Chloe McGuire's marriage implodes. He teaches her humiliation. When a passionate friendship blooms with Dr. Zakia Kigamba during their medical rounds through Kenya, she learns resilience. The Kinship Of All Creatures tells the story of Dr. Chloe McGuire, a genetics researcher at Cornell University. She goes to Kenya as a delegate to the conference of the United Nations Decade for Women, where each distinct face, every glowing shape comes together in a happening, an encounter, an explosion of euphoria. Though diverse in their goals and how they could reach them, ...

August Strindberg räknas som en av Sveriges mest betydelsefulla författare. Under fyra decennier var Strindberg en dominerande gestalt i det litterära Sverige. Han var ständigt omdiskuterad och ofta involverad i personliga konflikter. Bland hans verk finns ett flertal romaner, noveller och dramer som räknas som klassiker inom svensk litteratur.

Falsely accused of theft and cast out by the religious community of which he was a member, Silas Marner leaves his home and settles in Raveloe, where he leads a solitary existence as a weaver. Marner's work is in great demand, and the wealth that he accumulates becomes his consolation for all that he has lost; but when Dunstan Cass, one of the squire's sons, steals Marner's money, the weaver loses his only remaining reason for living.