Love in the Time of Cholera half century between 1880 and 1930. The city's "steamy and sleepy streets, rat-infested sewers, old slave quarter, decaying colonial architecture, and multifarious inhabitants" are mentioned variously in the text and mingle amid the lives of the characters. Locations within the story include: Some critics choose to consider "Love in the Time of Cholera" as a sentimental story about the enduring power of true love. Others criticize this opinion as being too simple. García Márquez himself said in an interview, "you have to be careful not to fall into my trap." This is manifested by Ariza's excessively romantic attitude toward life,
Love in Excess; or, The Fatal Enquiry Love in Excess; or, The Fatal Enquiry Love in Excess (1719–1720) is Eliza Haywood's best known novel. It details the amorous escapades of Count D'Elmont, a rake who becomes reformed over the course of the novel. "Love in Excess" was a huge bestseller in its time, going through multiple reissues in the four years following its initial publication. It was once compared in terms of book sales with "Gulliver's Travels" and "Robinson Crusoe". This information was revealed to be incorrect, the believed success of this novel is much more marginal, selling only about 6000 copies over 23 years. The first