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The Story of Antony and Cleopatra
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Abelard and Heloise
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Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Leicester
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Mary Queen of Scots and Lord Bothwell
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Queen Christina of Sweden and the Marquis Monaldeschi
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King Charles II. and Nell Gwyn
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The Story of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
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Maurice of Saxony and Adrienne Lecouvreur
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The Empress Catharine and Prince Potemkin
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Marie Antoinette and Count Fersen
27:12 -
The Story of Aaron Burr
35:07 -
George IV. and Mrs. Fitzherbert
25:02 -
Charlotte Corday and Adam Lux
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Napoleon and Marie Walewska
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The Story of Pauline Bonaparte
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The Story of the Empress Marie Louise and Count Neipperg
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The Wives of General Houston
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Lola Montez and King Ludwig of Bavaria
17:07 -
Leon Gambetta and Leonie Leon
24:26 -
Lady Blessington and Count d'Orsay
26:05 -
Byron and The Countess Guiccioli
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The Story of Mme. de Stael
20:21 -
The Story of Karl Marx
34:10 -
Ferdinand Lassalle and Helene von Donniges
28:19 -
The Story of Rachel
24:28 -
Dean Swift and the Two Esthers
21:53 -
Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Godwin
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The Story of the Carlyles
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The Story of the Hugos
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The Story of George Sand
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The Mystery of Charles Dickens
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Honore de Balzac and Evelina Hanska
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Charles Reade and Laura Seymour
22:06
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Across four volumes, Lyndon Orr tells thirty-three love stories from history, each in its own chapter. The cast runs from Antony and Cleopatra and the medieval lovers Abelard and Heloise to Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Leicester, Marie Antoinette and Count Fersen, Lola Montez and King Ludwig of Bavaria, and the Carlyles.
Orr writes as a storyteller with a historian's eye. The Cleopatra chapter opens with a vivid portrait of Alexandria, its harbour, boulevards, library and lighthouse, and weighs the Italian historian Ferrero's cooler reading of the queen against the romantic tradition. Later chapters follow Marie Louise after Napoleon's exile and the frontier world of Texas in the days when "G. T. T." meant a man had gone there to start again.
Published in 1914, the book suits readers who like biography told as narrative, and it offers an easy way into the private lives behind famous public names, from royal courts to the writers and poets of the nineteenth century.
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