DescriptionThis artful gathering of letters and poetry for lovers will weave an atmosphere of passion. It contains the most ardent and eloquent utterances from poets and lovers through the ages, including William Blake, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Robert Frost, James Joyce, Christina Rossetti, Carl Sandburg, William Shakespeare, William Butler Yeats, and more. The heartfelt, dramatic performances from our century's most distinguished actors and actresses complete this collection. Make your Valentine's Day - or any day - the most romantic of all.
DescriptionAnne Elliot has grieved for seven years over the loss of her first love, Captain Frederick Wentworth. But events conspire to unravel the knots of deceit and misunderstanding in this beguiling and gently comic story of love and fidelity.
DescriptionThe eloquence of lovers is celebrated in this rich and sensuous collection - the love of women for men. Heloïse, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Katherine Mansfield, George Sand, and others express their very real passion intensely - as, in fiction, does Juliet for her Romeo, Jane Eyre for her Rochester and Catherine for her Heathcliffe. With the music of Mendelssohn, Tchaikovksy, Puccini, Legar and more, here is some of the most tender and love prose and poetry in literature.
DescriptionMaintaining healthy personal relationships is the most challenging spiritual practice of all. For Stephen and Ondrea Levine, the essence of intimacy - not only with one another, but with God - lies in the rich and forbidding depths of our personal pain. True commitment requires us to "swim across the reservoir of each other's grief." In this remarkable program, the Levines teach couples how they can immerse themselves, together, in the "ocean of compassion, " and find the strength and courage to overcome heart-closing fear and discover mercy, creativity, freedom, and love. With exercises, meditations, and examples, the Levines demonstrate how to decipher this priceless map of partnership, and practice the difficult but powerfully rewarding yoga of relationship.
DescriptionWilliam Whittlestaff becomes a guardian to Mary Lawrie, the orphaned and penniless daughter of an old friend, and gradually finds himself falling in love with her.
