When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he plunges into a passionate love affair. But when his girlfriend returns to Paris, everything is destroyed. Unable to acknowledge the truth, David pretends the affair never happened, while Giovanni's life descends into tragedy. United by the theme of love, the works in the Great Loves series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds. Readers are introduced to the endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremes of love: romantic love, platonic love, erotic love, same-sex love, virginal love, adulterous love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love, forbidden love, not to mention lost love, distorted love, and obsessive love.