Reading Copy Book Blog

So you went to see the Sex and the City movie at the weekend and now you are wondering about the love letters book that was featured. Carrie Bradshaw reads to her sweetheart, Big, from a book apparently entitled Love Letters ofGreat Men – this book does not exist even though the love letters contained within go on to play a prominent role within the movie’s plot.

A book called Love Letters of Great Men and Women: From The Eighteenth Century To The Present Day by CH Charles does exist. This is probably the book that inspired the SATC plotline. The book was originally published in London in 1924 by S. Paul & Co and was republished in March 2007 by Kessinger – a publishing house dedicated to breathing life into great books that should never have gone out-of-print.

I can assure lots of people are currently using the internet search engines to try and find the love letters book. I have never seen such interest in a book that does not exist.

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