Every great love story touches the heart. It can make you laugh and bring you to tears. A great love story tugs the heart strings whether you're looking for your soul mate or if you're blissfully part of a couple. Below you'll find a short list of the greatest love stories of all time and a couple you may not know.
'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte is among the oldest of the "heart-wrenching, love can turn a good man evil" tales. Set in 1802 on the Wuthering Heights estate, the story is of timeless love. Heathcliff, the leading man becomes best friends with his adopted sister, Catherine, who, of course is also the love of his life. But, their romance is scuttled by a casual comment.
'Anna Karenina' by Tolstoy is another great love story. It's a soap opera that revolves around the life and love of Anna. Anna is married and a member of Russian aristocracy. She visits her brother in Moscow with the intention of helping him save his marriage, but in the process falls in love with Count Vronsky.
Anna tries mightily to subdue her desires for the count, but cannot. She leaves her husband but is not permitted a divorce. Without a divorce she is an outcast and must spend the rest of her life striving to gain acceptance of her relationship. Tragically, this proves to be too much.
Perhaps when one thinks of great love stories no other tale comes to mind as often as Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet.' It's the story of lovers who were meant for each other but could not be together. The balcony scene projects this dilemma exquisitely. But, alas, another tragic ending, it really is all in the timing.
One of the few literary novels that has made the best seller lists in the past ten years, Charles Frazier's 'Cold Mountain' can be interpreted as a retelling of 'Romeo and Juliet.' It too is a story of true love, but the lovers must forever be apart. It ends tragically too.
A more recent novel, 'Some Glad Morning' by Gary C. Horton is now climbing the bestseller charts and has a similar plot, but with several surprising twists. The lovers are kept apart by social status and the leading man must first establish himself.
Elizabeth is a Charleston lady and Ransom the penniless son of a sharecropper. Gary C. Horton turns the story upside down through several surprising twists and lands it with a generous, heartwarming finale.
'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte is among the oldest of the "heart-wrenching, love can turn a good man evil" tales. Set in 1802 on the Wuthering Heights estate, the story is of timeless love. Heathcliff, the leading man becomes best friends with his adopted sister, Catherine, who, of course is also the love of his life. But, their romance is scuttled by a casual comment.
'Anna Karenina' by Tolstoy is another great love story. It's a soap opera that revolves around the life and love of Anna. Anna is married and a member of Russian aristocracy. She visits her brother in Moscow with the intention of helping him save his marriage, but in the process falls in love with Count Vronsky.
Anna tries mightily to subdue her desires for the count, but cannot. She leaves her husband but is not permitted a divorce. Without a divorce she is an outcast and must spend the rest of her life striving to gain acceptance of her relationship. Tragically, this proves to be too much.
Perhaps when one thinks of great love stories no other tale comes to mind as often as Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet.' It's the story of lovers who were meant for each other but could not be together. The balcony scene projects this dilemma exquisitely. But, alas, another tragic ending, it really is all in the timing.
One of the few literary novels that has made the best seller lists in the past ten years, Charles Frazier's 'Cold Mountain' can be interpreted as a retelling of 'Romeo and Juliet.' It too is a story of true love, but the lovers must forever be apart. It ends tragically too.
A more recent novel, 'Some Glad Morning' by Gary C. Horton is now climbing the bestseller charts and has a similar plot, but with several surprising twists. The lovers are kept apart by social status and the leading man must first establish himself.
Elizabeth is a Charleston lady and Ransom the penniless son of a sharecropper. Gary C. Horton turns the story upside down through several surprising twists and lands it with a generous, heartwarming finale.
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