looking for classic love tale of two men and one women

[Raymot]

For a start: Two Gentlemen of Verona; Twelfth Night; a Midsummer Night's Dream; The Two Noble Kinsmen - all by W. Shakespeare.

[saej]

i am looking for any stories that tell about the love of two men for the same woman.
thnx.

[EAP]

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[Jester]

uhm lancelot, arthur and guinivere, thats all i can think of off the top of my head, oh and the whole trojan war, and of course odysiuss'es wife but that was with all the suitors not one man.... hmmm

[Scheherazade]

Depends what you mean by 'classic' but the first ones coming to my mind are 'Far From the Madding Crowd' and 'Tess of the d’Urbervilles' by Hardy... I wonder why as he is not even one of my favorite writers. :rolleyes:

[Monica]

knight's tale and miller's tale from Chaucer's canterbury tales

[nothingman87]

Try Flaubert's Madame Bovary
or
Proust's "Swann in Love" from A Remembrance of Things Past Vol. 1
or
Hardy's Return of the Native and Jude the Obscure
or
Greene's The Heart of the Matter and The Quiet American
or
Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises
or
Bellow's Herzog

That's all I can think of presently

[Snukes]

Mm. I'm on a French kick today. They're very good at the divided love business. You might try:

_Count of Monte Cristo_ by Alexandre Dumas
_Phantom of the Opera_ by Gaston Leroux
_Hunchback of Notre Dame_ by Victor Hugo
_Jealousy_ by Alian Robbe-Grillet (very surreal)
_Dangerous Liaisons_ by De Laclos (good if you want something a bit more complicated)

Are you looking for short stories? Despite trying very hard to think of some, nothing comes to mind, so now I'm also curious. Does anyone know any good short stories on this theme?

[subterranean]

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

[Celticora]

Hey! If you're looking to give it a kind of homosocial view, read David Copperfield! David and Uriah do much more than love the same woman (don't take the chimney poker scene lightly). But if you want to keep it basic, my favorite is Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (Edgar/Heathcliff/Catherine).Good Luck!

[subterranean]

I"m reading Tess D' Ubervilles at the moment and I think it also involves with mixed relationship of two men and a women.

[byquist]

Cyrano and Christian for Roxanne
Polo and Johnny for Celia in "Hat Full of Rain"
Vanya and Astrov for Yelena in "Uncle Vanya"

[ihaveaheadache]

Jane Austen?

[Ranoo]

Hi,
I recommend
1-The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley.
2-.Gone with the Wind. by Margaret Mitchell


Yours ,
Rana

[hellodolly]

A LOST LADY by Willa Cather

[beautiful_fool]

A Tale of Two Cities?

[Whifflingpin]

"Jules et Jim," film by François Truffaut based on the novel by Henri-Pierre Roché.

I have not read the novel, but the film is generally reckoned to be a classic.

[Virgil]

The Great Gatsby

[Danika_Valin]

Vanity Fair- Thackeray (Dobbin/George, Amelia)
Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte (Heathcliff/Edgar, Catherine)
Sense & Sensibility-Jane Austen (Colonel Brandon/Willoughby, Marianne)
Pride & Prejudice- Jane Austen (Mr. Darcy/Mr. Collins/Mr. Wickham [for a little while], Elizabeth)

[Nightshade]

just to be differant from every one else....
The Two Vanrevels by booth Tarkington.
ok so it wasnt a classic *shrug*

[downing]

GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell

[thevintagepiper]

A Tale of Two Cities-Charles Dickens
Emma-Jane Austen (Mr. Elton/Mr. Knightley/Emma)

The ballet, La Bayadere!

[mtpspur]

Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope (Hawkins). Rudolph Rassendyll and the KIng he stands in for for Flavia. If you want to keep the dream alive--avoid the sequel Rupert of Hentzau--I've never been able to read Prisoner since. Clumsy fair warning without intent to reveal spoilers (except my mood).