Excerpt from Illustrations of the Passion of Love, Vol. 1 of 2: Being a Collection of Historical and Miscellaneous Anecdotes, Brief Memoirs, and Curious Traditions, Illustrative of the Attachment Between the Sexes in All Ages and Countries Malignant anticipation on the other, the work will be left, without further observation, to the indulgence of the reader and its own merits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

古今東西の愛の諸相を綴った本作は、単なる恋愛譚の集成ではありません。名もなき情熱が歴史を動かし、運命を狂わせてきた人間の根源的な業を浮き彫りにする、重厚な人間探究の書です。著者の冷徹かつ情熱的な眼差しは、時代や国境を超えて共通する愛という名の狂気を、鮮烈な文体で現代に蘇らせています。 映像化作品では視覚的な情緒が補完されていますが、原作本の真髄は行間に漂う計り知れない沈黙にあります。テキストだからこそ到達できる個々の内面心理の深淵と、映像版が提示する象徴的な演出が重なり合うとき、読者は時代を超えた普遍的な感動を味わうでしょう。文字と映像の相乗効果が、不変の愛の真実をより一層鮮やかに際立たせているのです。