From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V6 #18 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Thursday, February 5 2004 Volume 06 : Number 018 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Nora (Richard Shindell) [OzWoman321@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 09:57:26 EST From: OzWoman321@aol.com Subject: [RS] Nora (Richard Shindell) Hello, All - This just in from my About Books and Literature e-newsletter (although they've probably been mentioned individually before) - not sure if the links will show up when I post, so e-me off-list if interested... Top Picks - Books About Abelard and Heloise from your Literature: Classic Guide The story of Abelard and Heloise is one of the greatest love stories of all time. And, what makes it so interesting is the letters that these two lovers wrote to each other. Read more about their lives, works, and love... 1) Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue by Constant J. Mews, Neville Chiavaroli (Translator). Palgrave Macmillan. From the publisher: "In this book, Constant Mews examines a collection of Latin love letters preserved in a fifteenth-century manuscript of Clairvaux, edited by Ewald Konsgen in 1974 under the title 'The Letters of Two Lovers.' He argues that it records 113 love letters exchanged by Heloise and Abelard at the time of their love affair." 2) The Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard, Heloise, Betty Radice (Translator). Penguin Classics. From the publisher: "Despite their misfortunes, these staunch Christians, as their letters reveal, found a path through self-pity into acceptance of a changed but lasting relationship. Whilst Heloise attained fame for her learning and administrative genius as an abbess, Abelard became an inspired teacher in Paris and the foremost logician of his day." 3) Stealing Heaven by Marion Meade. Soho Press. From the publisher: "A celebrated philosopher, he was considered a cleric and forbidden to wed. Nevertheless they married clandestinely and Heloise secretly bore him a child. Discovered, they were forcibly separated and Abelard viciously punished by castration. Both then devoted themselves to contemplative lives. He became a monk and established a religious order; she founded a great convent, The Paraclete." Susan http://www.heartsdesireconcerts.com http://www.horseofadifferentcolorbooking.com "If you ever wish for things that are only in the past Just remember that the wrong things aren't supposed to last Baby, it's over and done, the rest is gonna come when you let it..." ~ Mary Chapin Carpenter ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V6 #18 **********************************