Love by Stendhal #literature Of the twenty-three poems

Of the twenty-three poems

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Drawing on Margaret’s extensive correspondence (more of her letters survive than of all the other Tudor queens put together)

returns from studying abroad with a broken nose and a broken heart

Love by Stendhal #literature Of the twenty-three poemsA timeless treatise on the unique power of human emotion, Stendhal's Love is translated by Gilbert and Suzanne Sale with an introduction by Jean Stewart and B. C. J. G. Knight in Penguin Classics. In 1818, when he was in his mid thirties, Stendhal met and fell passionately in love with the beautiful Mathilde Dembowski. She, however, was quick to make it clear that she did not return his affections, and in his despair he turned to the written word to