An Affair to Remember: The Greatest Love Stories of All Time

by Gressor, Megan

• ISBN13: 9781592331284
• ISBN10: 1592331289
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-02-28
• Publisher: Fair Winds Pr

Summary

All the world loves a lover, as the saying goes.An Affair to Rememberis a warm and intimate account of 43 of the world's greatest love stories of captivating tales of grand passions, charismatic personalities, and extraordinary exploits. This packed volume includes the greatest love stories of the past as well as the modern day love stories of film and television's most adored personalities. Included in the book are the stories of Lord Byron and Lady Caroline Lamb; Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall; Victoria and David Beckham; John Lennon and Yoko Ono; Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn-and many others. Whether their outcomes were happy or tragic, all make for fascinating reading-and all were affairs to remember.

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(4)
I Historic Lovers
Marie Antoinette and Count Axel Ferson	11	(9)
Napoleon and Josephine	20	(6)
Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton	26	(6)
Pocahontas and Captain John Smith	32	(6)
Thunderbolt and Yellilong	38	(6)
Bess and Harry Houdini	44	(9)
II Right Royal Romances
Bothwell and Mary, Queen of Scots	53	(7)
Louis XIV and Francoise de Montespan	60	(7)
Charles II and Nell Gwynn	67	(6)
Czar Nicholas and Alexandra	73	(6)
Victoria and Albert	79	(7)
Lola Montez and Ludwig I of Bavaria	86	(7)
Edward and Mrs Simpson	93	(8)
III Literary Lovers
Lord Byron and Lady Caroline Lamb	101	(6)
Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Godwin	107	(7)
Victor Hugo and Juliette Drouet	114	(6)
George Bernard Shaw and Ellen Terry	120	(7)
Rebecca West and H.G. Wells	127	(7)
William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies	134	(7)
Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald	141	(6)
Agatha Christie and Max Mallowan	147	(6)
Barbara Cartland and Hugh McCorquodale	153	(6)
Herman Tarnower and Jean Harris	159	(8)
IV Political Unions
Charles Stewart Parnell and Kitty O'Shea	167	(8)
Joseph Lyons and Enid Burnell	175	(6)
Winston and Clementine Churchill	181	(7)
Angela Davis and George Jackson	188	(5)
Anatoly and Avital Shcharansky	193	(10)
V Affairs of the Arts
Frédéric Chopin and George Sand	203	(6)
Aristotle Onassis and Maria Callas	209	(6)
Elvis and Priscilla Presley	215	(6)
John Lennon and Yoko Ono	221	(6)
Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love	227	(6)
David Beckham and Victoria Adams	233	(8)
VI Hollywood Lives
Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neill	241	(7)
Bogart and Bacall	248	(5)
Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn	253	(6)
Barbara Hutton and Cary Grant	259	(8)
Clark Gable and Carole Lombard	267	(7)
Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh	274	(6)
Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini	280	(6)
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton	286	(5)
Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward	291