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.
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.
Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' is the classic tale of star-crossed lovers if there ever was such a thing. The story of two young loves desperate for each other but unable to be together because of family feuds and, dare I saw, family dysfunction. I'm sure many teenagers can relate. A tragic ending is inevitable as it's all in the timing when it comes to matters of the heart.
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.
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.
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.
Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' is the classic tale of star-crossed lovers if there ever was such a thing. The story of two young loves desperate for each other but unable to be together because of family feuds and, dare I saw, family dysfunction. I'm sure many teenagers can relate. A tragic ending is inevitable as it's all in the timing when it comes to matters of the heart.
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.
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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