Love And Forever.
Great love stories can touch your heart, make you laugh and move you to tears. Regardless if you are with the love of your life or still looking for your soul mate, a great love story pulls on the heartstrings. Here are a few of the most popular love stories of all time, plus a few new ones you may have missed.
Bronte's 'Wuthering Heights' tops most great love story lists. It's a classic story of how love can turn a man evil. Set in the early 1800's on the Wuthering Heights estate, the story focuses on the love of Heathcliff and his adopted sister Catherine. They are best friends and, by all accounts meant for each other. Unfortunately, an overheard, off-hand remark destroys their chance of happiness together.
'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.
She struggles with her desires but ultimately is overcome by them and leaves her husband, but she is denied a divorce and spends the rest of her life seeking acceptance for her relationship. The stress proves too much for her.
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.
Our short list of great love stories are all from the past. It seems only occasionally does a great contemporary love story break through to the bestseller lists. 'Cold Mountain' by Charles Frazier is one of the few. It bares striking similarities to 'Romeo and Juliet' complete with a tragic ending.
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.
However, Ransom is a destitute sharecropper's son and Elizabeth is the daughter of a wealthy Charleston planter. The author skillfully entertains as the story weaves through several unforeseen twists to ultimately arrive at a brilliant and heartwarming ending.
Bronte's 'Wuthering Heights' tops most great love story lists. It's a classic story of how love can turn a man evil. Set in the early 1800's on the Wuthering Heights estate, the story focuses on the love of Heathcliff and his adopted sister Catherine. They are best friends and, by all accounts meant for each other. Unfortunately, an overheard, off-hand remark destroys their chance of happiness together.
'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.
She struggles with her desires but ultimately is overcome by them and leaves her husband, but she is denied a divorce and spends the rest of her life seeking acceptance for her relationship. The stress proves too much for her.
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.
Our short list of great love stories are all from the past. It seems only occasionally does a great contemporary love story break through to the bestseller lists. 'Cold Mountain' by Charles Frazier is one of the few. It bares striking similarities to 'Romeo and Juliet' complete with a tragic ending.
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.
However, Ransom is a destitute sharecropper's son and Elizabeth is the daughter of a wealthy Charleston planter. The author skillfully entertains as the story weaves through several unforeseen twists to ultimately arrive at a brilliant and heartwarming ending.
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