Book of love letters from sex and the city movie

There is something poignant in the news that publisher Macmillan has hastily assembled an anthology called Love Letters of Great Men to match the fictional volume of that name that is Carrie Bradshaw's bedtime reading in the recent film of Sex and the City. Apparently there were thousands of inquiries from would-be purchasers. Now they will be able to get something approximating it. In the film, Carrie reads out extracts from this volume to Mr Big, apparently in order to egg him on to an effort at romantic expressiveness. They are the love letters of "great men" rather than just great love letters presumably to show him that "big" men can do the passion thing. Beethoven's love letters, which feature in the film, were addressed to a nameless "immortal beloved", and were never sent.

When the character Carrie Bradshaw read extracts from Love Letters of Great Men in the hit movie, booksellers were inundated with requests for a copy. But there was no such book, until the British firm Macmillan spotted the gap in the market and decided to issue a new publication with the same title. Mozart wrote to his wife Constanze: "While I was writing the last page, tear after tear fell on the paper. But I must cheer up - catch! An astonishing number of kisses are flying about - the deuce! I see a whole crowd of them! I have just caught three - they are delicious!

Every female writer between the ages of has likened herself to Carrie Bradshaw at least once. I noticed this detail when I saw Sex and the City 2 last summer, and I needed to wait until the movie was on my own TV so I could pause and snap a photo. Carrie Bradshaw wrote a book on love letters!

By Susan Breslow Sardone. Do you love reading and hearing beautiful. Or are you in search of famous love poems or letters that can inspire your own writing? The most romantic books of poems and love letters in this collection, from both contemporary authors as well as past masters, may furnish the words you seek. Originally, this book was fictitious, a prop in the "Sex in the City" movie that Big used to woo back Carrie Bradshaw after standing her up at the altar.