Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Vol 1-4, Complete

What happens when two people love each other so completely that they bring down empires? This collection of legendary historical romances examines the affairs that have haunted human imagination for millennia. From Antony abandoning his victorious legions to pursue Cleopatra across the Mediterranean, to Abelard and Heloise's forbidden passion that echoes through medieval France, Lyndon Orr traces the devastating power of devotion across centuries. These are not fairy tales. These are real men and women who chose love over duty, passion over survival, and whose choices rewrote the map of the ancient world. Written in 1912 with a novelist's eye for drama and a historian's respect for detail, this collection reveals what made these relationships immortal: the participants were willing to lose everything for each other, and in losing, became legend.