About the Book: Falling in Love: Classic Wisdom for Modern Minds
The great subject of love finding it, keeping it, losing it has fascinated and
consumed us since the beginning of time. Why do we fall in love, what does it
mean and how do we cope in relationships? Through essays and letters, these
questions are tackled by an array of classic writers from ancient to modern
times.
Falling in Love explores romance, infatuation and everything in between. In a
letter of advice, poet Rainer Maria Rilke talks about how change is an
inevitable part of relationships. Plato traces the idea of an 'other