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Famous Affinities of History

Lyndon Orr

Famous Affinities of History

Paper book: €52.99

Digital: €7.99

Original publication
1914
Monolingual
12 June 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

서른세 편의 실화 사랑 이야기. 여왕, 황제, 대문호들의 삶을 사랑으로 들여다본다.

The world of the book

고대 이집트에서 19세기까지. 이야기는 유럽, 러시아, 아메리카에 걸쳐 거의 2천 년을 아우른다. 당시 왕들은 흔히 정치적인 이유로 결혼했다. 사랑은 숨어야 했고, 때로는 역사의 흐름을 바꾸었다.

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