At the end of a dinner party, the remaining guests drink wine and tell stories of their first love. For one of them, it will be a dark journey into his past, reawakening unbearable memories of his obsession with the beautiful Zinaida; and the cruelty and betrayal that followed ...United by the theme of love, the writings in the "Great Loves" series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds. Readers will be introduced to love's endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities: romantic love, platonic love, erotic love, gay love, virginal love, adulterous love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love, illicit love, not to mention lost love, and, twisted and obsessional love...
| ISBN | 0141032820 | | Pages | 112 | | ISBN13 | 9780141032825
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 76 | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Penguin Classics | | Series title | Penguin Great Loves | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 180 | | Publication date | 02 Aug 2007 | | Width (mm) | 115 | | DEWEY | 891.733 | | Spine width (mm) | 10 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General |
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