When authors pen love letters, sometimes they can get a little scandalous.After all, we know that great authors can tend to be a little dirtier than youraverage swooner, and what better place to let their freak flag fly than inprivate correspondences they never dreamed would go down in history?
If you’re lucky, this Valentine’s Day brought a plethora of long,handwritten love letters for you to peruse by candlelight, but since youprobably aren’t that lucky, we’ve collected a few of our favorite literary loveletters for you to read by the soft glow of your computer screen.
Some are flat-out obscene (Joyce, we’re looking at you) and somecomposed of more subtle and suggestive flirting, but all of them aretitillating, romantic, and of course, exceedingly well-written. We’re notsaying that you should necessarily pick up any tips for when you writetonight’s Valentine’s Day card from these, but then again, if your lady if aFlaubert fan, it might be exactly the ticket.
Click through to read a few of our favorite scandalous correspondencesbetween great authors and the objects of their affection — but reader bewarned: as you might expect, colorful language abounds.
Read here, but remember you have been warned!
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