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Famous Affinities of History

Lyndon Orr

Famous Affinities of History

Paper book: €60.99

Digital: €18.99

Original publication
1914
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
1049
Difficulty
Medium
Genres
Biography and Autobiography, History
Moods
Meet a real life, Fall in love, Travel back in time
Translated from
English

Book summary

The book opens with Mark Antony, who abandons his troops at Actium to chase after Cleopatra. Then, chapter after chapter, Lyndon Orr tells of other famous couples in history, some of whom were led to their ruin by passion.

Each chapter reads like a short true story, in which we discover how love could change the fate of the great.

You can read these stories one by one, at your own pace, in the language you are learning.

The plot

Thirty-three true love stories. Queens, emperors and great writers, seen through their love lives.

The world of the book

From ancient Egypt to the 19th century. The stories span nearly two thousand years, in Europe, Russia and America. In those days, kings often married for political reasons. Love then had to hide, and it sometimes…

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