Tessa is a secretary working for Sebastian, a prince who lives in a luxurious Park Avenue apartment in Manhattan. She realizes she’s in love with him, but they are from different social classes so she must forget about her impossible infatuation! Determined to do so, she hands in her resignation, but the prince says he wants her to do one last job for him before she leaves—travel with him to his home country, Caspia, and set up a meeting there. Tessa is interested in seeing the beautiful coastal country of Caspia, so she agrees to go as long as it’s her last job. But she never thought it would start such a commotion…!※This work is originally colored.

Tessa is a secretary working for Sebastian, a prince who lives in a luxurious Park Avenue apartment in Manhattan. She realizes she’s in love with him, but they are from different social classes so she must forget about her impossible infatuation! Determined to do so, she hands in her resignation, but the prince says he wants her to do one last job for him before she leaves—travel with him to his home country, Caspia, and set up a meeting there. Tessa is interested in seeing the beautiful coastal country of Caspia, so she agrees to go as long as it’s her last job. But she never thought it would start such a commotion…!※This work is originally colored.

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Love’s Work is at once a memoir and a work of philosophy. Written by the English philosopher Gillian Rose as she was dying of cancer, it is a book about both the fallibility and the endurance of love, love that becomes real and lasting through an ongoing reckoning with its own limitations. Rose looks back on her childhood, the complications of her parents’ divorce and her dyslexia, and her deep and divided feelings about what it means to be Jewish. She tells the stories of several friends also laboring under the sentence of death. From the sometimes conflicting vantage points of her own and her friends’ tales, she seeks to work out (seeks, because the work can never be complete—to be alive means to be incomplete) a distinctive outlook on life, one that will do justice to our yearning both for autonomy and for connection to others. With droll self-knowledge (“I am highly qualified in unhappy love affairs,” Rose writes, “My earliest unhappy love affair was with Roy Rogers”) and with unsettling wisdom (“To live, to love, is to be failed”), Rose has written a beautiful, tender, tough, and intricately wrought survival kit packed with necessary but unanswerable questions.