Love

Stendhal's Love a classic work on the special power of human passion is translated by Gilbert and Suzanne with an introduction by Jean Stewart and B.C.J.G. Knight. Midway through his thirties in 1818 Stendhal met and fell deeply in love with the stunning Mathilde Dembowski. He turned to writing to exorcise his love and express his sentiments after she quickly made it evident that she did not reciprocate his loves. The end result is a deeply personal analysis of how falling in love—and staying in love—works combining poetry anecdotes philosophy psychology and social observation. Bringing together the polar opposite aspects of his personality—the intensely sentimental and the coolly analytical.