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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

Trettitre sanne kjærlighetshistorier. Dronninger, keisere og store forfattere sett gjennom kjærligheten sin.

The world of the book

Fra oldtidens Egypt til 1800-tallet. Fortellingene spenner over nesten to tusen år, i Europa, Russland og Amerika. På den tiden gifter konger seg ofte av politiske grunner. Kjærligheten må skjule seg, og noen ganger…

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