The personal memoir of history's most famous lover reveals a misunderstood intellectual who befriended the likes of Ben Franklin.

A trip to the floor of the Maui volcano still promises an encounter with the "raw beginnings of world-making."

With the world's greatest lover in history as his guide, the author of The Sinner's Grand Tour sets out to do Venice right.

When the two poets descended on the Swiss lake in 1816, the plan was poetry and pleasure. The result? Frankenstein, vampires and a love child.