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fetish
08-27-2010, 02:54 PM
So, the topic on "love" (or lack thereof in recent times) got me thinking ... what is your favourite novel regarding human desire, its various forms, shortcomings and consequences?
laymonite
08-27-2010, 03:59 PM
The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis
stlukesguild
08-27-2010, 04:30 PM
Nabokov's Lolita
Patrick_Bateman
08-27-2010, 04:43 PM
Cousin Bette
JuniperWoolf
08-27-2010, 05:07 PM
Of Human Bondage.
Olga4real
08-27-2010, 05:35 PM
Goethe Faust, though it's not a novel.
Gregory Samsa
08-27-2010, 05:45 PM
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
hazelk
08-27-2010, 05:51 PM
Love In The Time Of Cholera.
Alexander III
08-27-2010, 06:42 PM
Casanova's Histoire de ma vie
ladderandbucket
08-28-2010, 03:39 AM
A short story by Tolstoy called The Devil. Really captures the madness of infatuation.
Emil Miller
08-28-2010, 05:18 AM
The Great Gatsby

Wuthering Heights
kelby_lake
08-28-2010, 05:43 AM
I'd second The Great Gatsby, and add Lolita.
nandakishore
08-28-2010, 05:55 AM
The Collector by John Fowles
Lokasenna
08-28-2010, 06:16 AM
Hugo's Notre Dame du Paris?
fetish
08-28-2010, 09:43 AM
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Those are also two of my favourites! (Amongst many others ...)

MADAME BOVARY and ANNA KARENINA, anyone?
kelby_lake
08-28-2010, 01:09 PM
Lady Chatterley's Lover?

Sons and Lovers?
Pensive
08-28-2010, 01:34 PM
The Collector by John Fowles
I wholeheartedly second this one!