I think Louis de Bernieres' Captain Corelli's Mandolin is a beautiful love story, although i know there is a lot about the war too it did make me cry at the thought that Correlli and Pelagia werent together for most of their lives.
Still have not seen the film either.
"As half thy love? Why dost not speak to me?" Marcus Andronicus
Gone with the wind is my first choice and the second one is Pride and Prejudice. Those two were really classics!!
Persuasion by Austen the love of Anne and Captain Wentworth is so enduring,quiet and dignified
I think "A Walk to Remember" by Nicholas Sparks is great, too.
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Catherine and Heathcliff's relationship in "Wuthering Heights"
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.
-Goethe
All of my favourites have been said but i will just agree with you all with,
A Walk to remember
Pride and Prejudice
Persausion
Wuthuring Heights
The Notebook
Romeo and Juliet
ect
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lol unfortunately i cant bring anything new to the table.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
From the number of stories that I am familiar with (which is not many), I consider Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Nicholas Spark's A Walk to Remember , Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and the Notebook as the best love stories of their times.
OK. I hate to do this. BUT..
Love In the Time of Cholera-Gabriel Garcia Marquez. (I feel like his cheering squad, he's in almost all of my posts!) I do read Marquez alot so of course this would be natural for me as I am well read in him.. BUT....
I'm not alone. It Is considered one of the greatest love stories ever told, and not only by me, but more widely. Don't ask me who or to site anything. All I can say is that it is in Pengiuns "Great books of the 20th century" eddition.
And even though Oprah book clubbed it, its still one of my favorites. Read it if you haven't. It is fabulous. (though unfortunatly the movie was not)
In fact.. I think I'll give it another re-read
"What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait."- Cheif, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Probably Aeneas and Dido's love story in The Aeneid. I like it because it hit home with Dido's unfortunate infatuation with Aeneas. I don't want to go too in detail about this, but I've been in a similar situation where I have a really, really bad crush for someone that I couldn't act on due to time and circumstance. It's actually quite a miserable experience.
"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories." - Plato
"Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him."- Friedrich Nietzsche
My favorite is Jane Eyre.
Eros and Psyche
its beautifully romantic, Psyche is so loyal... I wish that was the way it is today.
and by Eros and Psyche i mean the version in which Eros is sent to kill her, but falls in love with her instead. They marry, but she is never allowed to see him. Her sisters, jealous, convince her that he is a hideous monster, so she sneaks a peak but drips candle wax on his skin and he awakens. Psyche is given tasks she must do before she can win him back such as sorting hundreds of seeds and fetching items from the land of the dead. Eventually Aphrodite sees her loyalty and allows the couple to be together.
It is so beautiful. SOOOOO beautiful. I love it. LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!
I would have to say that Jane Austen wrote the best love stories of all time. Now, i am not a great reader when it comes to classics, but i firmly believe there is no better romance writer than Austen. Every single story she told was timeless, and i loved all of them (i had a J.A. class last year) but if forced to choose....i would have to only go down to three and say Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma. I love how the same basic plot is in all three books (actually in all of Austen's Novels) but plays out differently every time. And, i also think that these 3 novels have the best male characters.
Always,
HaPpYeVeRaFtEr
~~reality is what you make it,not what it makes you~~
I'm a fan of Jane Austen, too. I haven't read much of her stuff besides Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, and Persuasion, but I have a couple more so I'll pick those up soon.
I think my favorite love story is between Jane Eyre and Love in the time of cholera. Though, Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenenger is waay up there too. So I guess it would be a three-way tie.
I have to agree with whoever wrote it above but Bronte's Wuthering Heights by far.
The only book to make me cry, beautiful love story between Heathcliff and Cathy - a must read
How about Anna Karenina?
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