The book tells about Love from ancient times to the present day. The plots included in it are taken from classical sources, from texts of the Middle Ages, from modern philosophical and scientific literature, from books by wonderful representatives of Russian and foreign culture: Stefan Zweig, Vladimir Nabokov, Stendhal, Denis Didro, Nikolai Berdyaev, Vladimir Solovyov... From the pastoral and gallant era to the "dark passions" in the style of the Marquis de Sade is the range of Eros.