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.
Emily Bronte's 'Wuthering Heights' is usually near the top of any list of great love stories. It's a heart-wrenching tale of how love can bring out the worse in a man. The story begins on the Wuthering Heights estate in 1802. The leading man, Heathcliff, is best friends with his adopted sister. The reader quickly realizes that the two are soul mates, but their romance is ruined by a careless remark.
'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.
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.
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.
As you may have noticed, the greatest love stories mentioned so far are a bit dated. However, Charles Frazier's 'Cold Mountain' is one of the few literary love stories to make the bestseller lists in recent memory. It's essentially a retelling of 'Romeo and Juliet' set in the desperate Civil War south. It too does not end well for the lovers.
A great love story that is currently making its way up the bestseller lists is the novel 'Some Glad Morning' by Gary C. Horton. The plot is also similar to 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'Cold Mountain.' The two lovers are separated by status and the hero must first establish himself in business and society.
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.
Emily Bronte's 'Wuthering Heights' is usually near the top of any list of great love stories. It's a heart-wrenching tale of how love can bring out the worse in a man. The story begins on the Wuthering Heights estate in 1802. The leading man, Heathcliff, is best friends with his adopted sister. The reader quickly realizes that the two are soul mates, but their romance is ruined by a careless remark.
'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.
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.
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.
As you may have noticed, the greatest love stories mentioned so far are a bit dated. However, Charles Frazier's 'Cold Mountain' is one of the few literary love stories to make the bestseller lists in recent memory. It's essentially a retelling of 'Romeo and Juliet' set in the desperate Civil War south. It too does not end well for the lovers.
A great love story that is currently making its way up the bestseller lists is the novel 'Some Glad Morning' by Gary C. Horton. The plot is also similar to 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'Cold Mountain.' The two lovers are separated by status and the hero must first establish himself in business and society.
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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