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The Book Of Love

The Book Of Love

by Paolo Mantegazza

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Author
Mantegazza, Paolo, 1831-1910
Title
The Book of Love
Credits
Produced by Turgut Dincer, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
Language
English
LoC Class
HQ: Social sciences: The family, Marriage, Sex and Gender
Subject
Love
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 57423
Release Date
June 30, 2018
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.The Book of Love
  2. 2.CONTENTS
  3. 3.FOREWORD
  4. 4.TO THE READER
  5. 5.INTRODUCTION GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY OF LOVE
  6. 6.CHAPTER I LOVE IN PLANTS AND ANIMALS — I — II
  7. 7.CHAPTER II MORNING CREPUSCULES OF LOVE—THE GOOD AND EVIL SOURCES OF LOVE
  8. 8.CHAPTER III THE FIRST WEAPONS OF LOVE—COURTSHIP
  9. 9.CHAPTER IV MODESTY
  10. 10.CHAPTER V THE VIRGIN
  11. 11.CHAPTER VI CONQUEST AND VOLUPTUOUSNESS
  12. 12.CHAPTER VII HOW LOVE IS PRESERVED AND HOW IT DIES
  13. 13.CHAPTER VIII THE DEPTHS AND THE HEIGHTS OF LOVE
  14. 14.CHAPTER IX SUBLIME PUERILITIES OF LOVE
  15. 15.CHAPTER X BOUNDARIES OF LOVE, AND THEIR RELATIONS TO THE SENSES
  16. 16.CHAPTER XI BOUNDARIES OF LOVE—THEIR RELATIONS TO OTHER SENTIMENTS—JEALOUSY
  17. 17.CHAPTER XII BOUNDARIES OF LOVE—THEIR RELATIONS TO THOUGHT
  18. 18.CHAPTER XIII CHASTITY IN ITS RELATIONS TO LOVE
  19. 19.CHAPTER XIV LOVE IN SEX
  20. 20.CHAPTER XV LOVE AND AGE
  21. 21.CHAPTER XVI LOVE IN RELATION TO TEMPERAMENTS—OF THE WAYS OF LOVING
  22. 22.CHAPTER XVII THE HELL OF LOVE
  23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII THE DEGRADATIONS OF LOVE
  24. 24.CHAPTER XIX FAULTS AND CRIMES OF LOVE
  25. 25.CHAPTER XX RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF LOVE
  26. 26.CHAPTER XXI THE COVENANTS OF LOVE

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