Novels about separated lovers

[cosmos..33]

What are some novels that deal with:

*Lovers separated by illness / death?

*Lovers separated by distance?

[Inez]

Wuthering Heights.

[Inez]

Persuasion
Cold Mountain
1984

[Whifflingpin]

I think this was a major theme in early picaresque novels - Aucussin & Nicolette, d'Urfe's Astree, Zayde and Candide spring immediately to mind, but I think there were many with this theme in 16th century.

"The Razor's Edge" by Somerset Maugham
"Le Grand Meaulnes" by Alain Fournier

Anna Karenina? Doctor Zhivago?

"The Sot-weed Factor"
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[literaturerocks]

though this was said before, 1984 is a good one

[Schokokeks]

Following my first impulse, I'd say Middlemarch by Eliot, but then again, they are not "officially" lovers...
Second off the top of my head would be The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, but here the lovers aren't "officially" lovers either. However, a cerain distance between them is kept by social pressure, and one gets the impression of a love not realised here, if that is what you're looking for :nod:.

[mono]

Definitely Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, but I also must add Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy, Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence, Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Garcìa Màrquez, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (for brief periods of time), and The Odyssey by Homer.

[bhekti]

Dostoevsky's Poor Folk and The Insulted and The Injured. These are lovers separated by their self.

[water lily]

Green Dolphin Street, by Elizabeth Goudge. DEFINITELY

[Bastet]

Possession, by A.S. Byatt

[Underman]

Manon Lescaut, by Abby Prevost.

[raptor]

Conrad's Heart of Darkness: Kurtz and his Intended are separated by distance, illness and death.

[Thorwench]

Sholokov's The Silent Don, Grigori and Aksinja are first separated by marriage, then war, then death.

[Jean-Baptiste]

How about one of the millions of versions of Tristan and Isolde?

[aeroport]

I would say that both The Scarlet Letter andThe Wings of the Dove each touch upon both of those themes, if not entirely directly.

[Mary Sue]

"The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton, in which the lovers are separated by nineteenth-century societal standards/ morality.

[Maida]

Tender is the Night by Fitzgerald

[abirpal]

I think The English Patient by Michel Ondatjee has dealt with this theme very well.

[Bookworm Cris]

The Thorn Birds, by Coleen Mc Cullough

[skyneel]

I think Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "love in the time of cholera" deals with the theme well too