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"100 Words for Lovers" provides both would-be and experienced lovers with the right words to get in the mood and set the tone. These are words used by famous lovers themselves and by famous writers describing the most torrid affairs of the heart. What kinds of words? Amorous and alluring, beguiling and bewitching. They show lovers showering attention, idolizing each other, and meeting in secret trysts. They show lovers who are tortured by infatuation, star-crossed, inflamed, and full of ardour, as they pine and yearn for an embrace with their heartthrob and succumb to the bliss of erotic passion. Anyone with the least inclination for romance will be entranced by the quotations that illustrate the words in this book. They come from poetry, fiction, and movie and television scripts, as well as private letters. The authors range from Elizabethan poets such as William Shakespeare and John Donne, to modernists such as Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence, to contemporaries such as Michael Ondaatje and Kiran Desai. You'll swoon when you read this book, and if you're playing it smart, you won't be reading alone.

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These 100 words have been put to great effect by some of our most important and beloved speakers and writers. Each sense of a word is shown in a separate quotation. Many quotes are from famous public speeches and award-winning books. A number were used in personal letters, showing that it is just as important to have a vibrant vocabulary in private communication as it is in public. The people quoted range across the spectrum of human endeavour. There are famous political leaders from the past (Mohandas K. Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Ronald Reagan), contemporary politicians (Benazir Bhutto and Barack Obama), scientists (Rachel Carson, Carl Sagan, Edward O.Wilson), economists (Alan Greenspan, John Maynard Keynes, Adam Smith), academics (Henry Louis Gates Jr., Ruth Simmons, Helen Vendler), figures of conscience (James Baldwin, Bono, Eleanor Roosevelt), and even humorists (Garrison Keillor, Groucho Marx, Sarah Vowell). They are all captivating communicators, and they all sound great.

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