Romance Novels

[Fat Mike]

Hi all!

Our next project in school is to choose a book about love to read. And then of course write a review on it. I'm not the "love-story-reader" type so I could need a little bit of help. I was thinking of a classic romance novel with some learning in it, for example "Pride and Prejudice".

All suggestions are welcome, thanks!

[seasong]

Pride and Prejudice is excellent. Jane Eyre is absolutely amazing. There's a soft spot in my heart for Mansfield Park since its the first Jane Austen that I read.
Does it have to have a happy ending like traditional romance, or does it just need to be about love?

[Fat Mike]

Thanks for your fast answer.

It doesn't have to have a happy ending at all. The important thing is that the core of the plot should be love.

[seasong]

The Girl of the Limberlost - Gene Stratton-Porter (happy ending)
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (tragic and painful)
Tess of the Durbervilles - Thomas Hardy (really sad)
Rose in Bloom or An Old Fashioned Girl - Louisa May Alcott (happy and light reading)

[LPRox015]

Romeo and Juliet is always good. ;)

[EAP]

I would have suggested something modern, a bit out of the box perhaps but seeing that you want Victorian era stuff, Wuthering Heights is easily the best choice.

[SaGe]

If you haven't read it, obviously Romeo and Juliet, but if you have, maybe For Whom the Bell Tolls though it's not traditional and the love story isn't the main focus of the novel. It would still be an interesting relationship to analyze.

None of these are romance novels, but if you want an intriguing romantic relationship:

1984 by George Orwell (Winston Smith and Julia)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Jay Gatsby and Daisy)

etc.

[grace86]

I like the recommendations everyone has told you already. For a modern one though that I really enjoyed, "The Birth of Venus" by Sarah Dunant was really good. The ending of that was interesting too.

[ennison]

Isaac Bashevis Singer : 'The Slave'

[Fat Mike]

Thanks again!

I thought about a couple of those book you have mentioned so you have strengthened my "alternatives". The choice shouldn't be that difficult anymore.

[Fat Mike]

Hi again!

It's time to finally get myself a book about love. I was recommended a book before, it was about some kind of timetraveling mixed with romance. It sounded pretty interesting so I thought to give it a shot. It's a sort of Sci Fi/romance novel, but I can't remember the title. Anyone knows which book I'm talking about?

Thanks!

[EAP]

There are two books which fit your criteria.

Audrey Niffenegger's Time Traveler's Wife and Diana Gabaldon's Cross Stitch (alternatively titled Outlander is USA). You probably have the former in your mind.

[Fat Mike]

Time Traveler's Wife is the one! :yawnb:

Thanks a lot!