An anthology of love letters. Passionate, bitter, tender or agonized, teasing, admonitory, heartless or doomed, the letters represent the attempt by lovers, or would-be-lovers, throughout the ages to transifx their feelings onto the page. Some of the letters are magnificent outpourings, others more affecting by their understatement. Some like Byron's letter to Lady Caroline Lamb, mask bitter irony, others like Heloise's urgent and passionate plea to her castrated lover, Abelard, are almost unbearable to read. All of them illustrate the power and ferocity of the emotion we call love. Lady Antonia Fraser is the author of several bestselling historical biographies, such as "Boadicea's Chariot: The Warrior Queens" and "King James VI", "King James I" and "Kings and Queens of England".