Love Is Not Enough — 12 Essays to Read Before You Call It Love (PDF + EPUB)

We use the same word for a first glance, a lifelong friendship, a legal

promise, a bodily appetite and the care that remains when enchantment has

gone.

Love Is Not Enough brings together twelve classic selections that ask

what love is, what it asks from us and what it becomes when attraction,

ownership, marriage, friendship and devotion are no longer treated as the

same thing.

The collection moves through four parts—The spell, The machinery,

The contract and Beyond possession—with work by Percy Bysshe Shelley,

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Francis Bacon, Arthur

Schopenhauer, Myrtle Reed, Havelock Ellis, Emma Goldman, Crystal Eastman,

Michel de Montaigne, Sir Roger L’Estrange after Seneca, and William James.

You will receive:

- a 175-page designed PDF reading edition;

- a clean, reflowable EPUB for phones, tablets and e-readers;

- twelve complete selections as presented in the retained public-domain

 editions, with source notes and navigation.

Historical language and opinions are retained. Some writers make severe or

obsolete claims about sex, gender and marriage; their inclusion is

argumentative, not an endorsement.