Inspired by the success of the Great Ideas series, this collection takes the same aesthetic and succinct sensibilities and applies them to the topic of love. Twenty books comprise the set, which was only sold commercially in Britain but can also be purchased online through Penguin’s website.
| 1 | Doomed Love | Virgil |
| 2 | Forbidden Fruit | Abelard and Heloise |
| 3 | The Eaten Heart: Unlikely Tales of Love | Giovanni Boccaccio |
| 4 | Of Mistresses, Tigresses and Other Conquests | Giacomo Casanova |
| 5 | Cures for Love | Stendhal |
| 6 | The Seducer’s Diary | Soren Kierkegaard |
| 7 | First Love | Ivan Turgenev |
| 8 | A Mere Interlude | Thomas Hardy |
| 9 | The Kreutzer Sonata | Leo Tolstoy |
| 10 | A Russian Affair | Anton Chekhov |
| 11 | Deviant Love | Sigmund Freud |
| 12 | Magnetism | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 13 | Something Childish But Very Natural | Katherine Mansfield |
| 14 | The Virgin and the Gypsy | D.H. Lawrence |
| 15 | Mary | Vladimir Nabokov |
| 16 | Bonjour Tristesse | Francoise Sagan |
| 17 | Giovanni’s Room | James Baldwin |
| 18 | Eros Unbound | Anais Nin |
| 19 | Bodily Secrets | William Trevor |
| 20 | The Women Who Got Away | John Updike |
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