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' is often at the top of author's lists. The Tolstoy novel is essentially a literary soap opera. Seated atop Russian aristocracy, Anna is a married woman when she visits her brother Stiva in Moscow where she falls in love with Count Vronsky.
Anna fights her desires only to succumb and leave her husband. But he will not grant her a divorce and she spends her life trying to gain acceptance of her love affair. Ultimately, this proves too much for her.
'Romeo and Juliet' is perhaps the most eternal of tragic love stories and certainly among Shakespeare's most often told tales. It is the story of star-crossed lovers and the ultimate loss of love. The pivotal scene of Juliet on the balcony is the story of love captured in an image. They are meant for each other but cannot be together because of family dynamics beyond their control. Naturally, it does not end well.
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' is often at the top of author's lists. The Tolstoy novel is essentially a literary soap opera. Seated atop Russian aristocracy, Anna is a married woman when she visits her brother Stiva in Moscow where she falls in love with Count Vronsky.
Anna fights her desires only to succumb and leave her husband. But he will not grant her a divorce and she spends her life trying to gain acceptance of her love affair. Ultimately, this proves too much for her.
'Romeo and Juliet' is perhaps the most eternal of tragic love stories and certainly among Shakespeare's most often told tales. It is the story of star-crossed lovers and the ultimate loss of love. The pivotal scene of Juliet on the balcony is the story of love captured in an image. They are meant for each other but cannot be together because of family dynamics beyond their control. Naturally, it does not end well.
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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