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The honeymoon was originally the period following marriage, "characterized by love and happiness," as attested since 1546. [4] The word may allude to "the idea that the first month of marriage is the sweetest". [5] According to a different version, of the Oxford English Dictionary:
Honeymoon Island State Park is a Florida State Park located on Honeymoon Island, a barrier island across St. Joseph Sound from Dunedin, Palm Harbor, Ozona, and Crystal Beach. The park is 385 acres (1.6 km 2 ) in land area with 2,400 acres (10 km 2 ) submerged and 4 miles (6 km) of beach .
I had always heard the explanation for the name as first documented from an old middle english book, however it is usually commented that this is the first "documented" record of a practice called the "honeymoon". Since the meaning is referred to rather than word coined, I would assume it was in at least some common use by the time the author ...
Honeymoon, a 2000 novel by Amy Jenkins; Honeymoon, a 1995 novel by Patrick Modiano; Honeymoon, a novel by James Patterson & Howard Roughan; The Honey Moon, an 1805 play by John Tobin; The Honeymoon, a 1987 novel by Knut Faldbakken; The Honeymoon, a 2004 novel by Justin Haythe; The Honeymoon, a 1986 novel by Violet Winspear
Anthony Giddens, in The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Society, states that romantic love introduced the idea of a narrative to an individual's life, and telling a story is a root meaning of the term romance. According to Giddens, the rise of romantic love more or less coincided with the emergence of the novel.
On Chesil Beach is a 2007 novella by the British writer Ian McEwan.It was selected for the 2007 Booker Prize shortlist.. The Washington Post and Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Jonathan Yardley placed On Chesil Beach on his top ten list for 2007, praising McEwan's writing and saying that "even when he's in a minor mode, as he is here, he is nothing short of amazing".
Married at First Sight: Honeymoon Island is an eight-episode series about sixteen singles on an exotic island attempting to match themselves. [98] Casting includes unmatched singles from earlier seasons of the original, fan favorites, and new candidates.
The Story of a New Name (Italian: Storia del nuovo cognome) is a 2012 novel written by Italian author Elena Ferrante. It is the second volume in her four-book series known as the Neapolitan Novels , being preceded by My Brilliant Friend , and succeeded by Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay and The Story of the Lost Child .