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Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39

By Florian Illies - Published 2023

Genres:

Nonfiction

Love and hate are divided into ‘before’ and ‘after’. The year that everything changed—1933. Anaïs Nin lives in the apartment in Paris ...Read Review

The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba

By Mark Braude - Published 2018

Genres:

Nonfiction

The French emperor, Napoleon, conducts a massive campaign of conquest and seizes almost half of Europe. Then he is defeated and dies a ...Read Review

Heloise and Abelard: A Twelfth-Century Love Story

By James Burge - Published 2005

Genres:

Nonfiction

This new biography of a passionate love story, which has traveled through nine centuries, reveals the recent discovery of eight early letters: five ...Read Review