Tuesday, 1 October 2013

When Love Lasts Forever.

By Mathilde Lemus


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.

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.

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 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.

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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