Love Letters

Love Letters, edited by Peter Washington, collects the most beautiful, passionate, and revealing letters ever written by lovers across the centuries — from the fiery correspondence of John Keats to Fanny Brawne to the anguished letters of Frédéric Chopin to George Sand, from Napoleon to Joséphine to the tender exchanges of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Each letter reveals not just the writer’s love but their character, their intelligence, and the specific quality of their feeling. Together they constitute an anthology of human emotion at its most unguarded and most eloquent. Published by Everyman’s Library in a beautifully produced pocket edition, this is a perfect gift for lovers of literature and love alike — a collection that makes you simultaneously grateful for the existence of these writers and aware that your own correspondence can never quite compete.