The Circle of Enduring Love: A Celebration of Romance and Affection

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0836269659, Hardcover)

"All love is sweet", wrote Shelley nearly two centuries ago. We might tack on a long string of adjectives -- romantic, exciting, comforting, confusing, sustaining, heartbreaking, incomprehensible, and perfectly clear -- but try as we may, no one has yet come up with a definition or logic for love, given or received.

In this warmhearted collection, more than 70 engaging photographs -- some old, some new -- show the timelessness of the powerful feelings shared by men and women of all ages and stages, yesterday and today. A sunny senior couple sharing a porch swing are the quintessential "old shoes; " punk rockers, the new generation of lovers, court wearing headsets; the hopeful smiles of a bride and groom steal everyone's hearts as they have throughout time.

The Circle of Enduring Love is the perfect marriage of photos and text drawn from a lively range of literature. Contemporary writers -- Judith Viorst, John Updike, and Nikki Giovanni among them -- and historical writers, such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, D. H. Lawrence, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, join voices to express the inexpressible and make sense of this most enduring emotion.