 | The Scarlet Letter (Oxford World's Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Buy new: £16.09 / Used from: £0.01 In the early days of Puritan Boston, Hester Prynne braves the stigma of adultery and bearing an illegitimate child, by wearing the embroidered scarlet "A" for adultry on her clothing. Brilliant!
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 | Persuasion by Jane Austen
Buy new: £1.79 / Used from: £0.01 Ms. Austen's most heartfelt novel & her last. Anne Elliot was persuaded to refuse Mr.Wentworth's proposal of marriage 9 yrs. before. Now she may have a 2nd chance to recapture his love. Simply superb!
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 | Jane Eyre (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 Charlotte Bronte's unconventional love story & much more. Jane Eyre is a passionate, intelligent & independent woman, who refuses to be satisfied by her place in society -& then there's Mr. Rochester!
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 | Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics) by Emily Bronte
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 An intense, brooding Yorkshire tale of a love that is stronger than death - of Heathcliffe & his Cathy. Fiercely passionate; mystical, with a timeless appeal. A classic of English literature.
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 | The Mill on the Floss (Oxford World's Classics) by George Eliot
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Ms. Eliot's best novel. Appealing Maggie Tulliver's story explores the conflicts of love and loyalty, & the friction between desire and moral responsibility. Evocative depiction of English rural life.
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 | Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) by R.D. Blackmore
Buy new: £1.79 / Used from: £0.01 Set in late 17th century Exmoor, John Ridd maintains his love for the beautiful and aristocratic Lorna Doone who was kidnapped as a child by an outlaw family. Lorna holds on to her identity & honor.
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 | Washington Square by Henry James
Buy new: £12.18 / Used from: £14.72 A psychological study of an unattractive, shy, lonely heiress who finds herself being ardently wooed by a handsome opportunist. She adores him; doesn't care about the fortune- but her father says no.
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 | Ethan Frome (Oxford World's Classics) by Edith Wharton
Buy new: £1.46 / Used from: £0.41 Set again a bleak New England winter landscape, a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, lives with his unhappy wife and her enchanting cousin.This powerful & engrossing drama will haunt you.
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 | Anna Karenina (Wordsworth Classics) by L.N. Tolstoy
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 A rich and complex masterpiece charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman & Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer. A great romantic tragedy.
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 | Dr Zhivago by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
Buy used from: £228.79 Pasternak's classic evokes the life and loves of the poet-physician Zhivago during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. And, of course, the great love he feels for his beloved Lara, his muse.
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 | The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Buy used from: £2.18 In this Victorian-style novel, Charles Smithson, a nineteenth-century gentleman falls in love with enigmatic Sarah Woodruff, who has been jilted by a French lover. An artfully told, mysterious tale.
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 | A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £2.42 / Used from: £1.00 The unforgettable WWI story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front & his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's portrayal of their love simply glows in its intensity.
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 | Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
Buy used from: £1.02 Constance Chatterley, trapped in an unhappy marriage to an aristocrat whose war wounds have left him paralyzed and impotent, has an affair with Mellors, the gamekeeper. Beautifully written& complex.
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 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics) by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 A great classic - Set in the the roaring 20s, fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby is obsessed by his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. Fitzgerald's prose is spare & elegant. An extraordinary work!
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 | Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £1.25 With humor, wisdom and consummate craft, G. Garcia Marquez traces an exceptional half-century story of unrequited love. Gorgeous prose; excellent translation
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 | Justine (Faber Fiction Classics) by Lawrence Durrell
Buy new: £1.28 / Used from: £0.35 Book #1 of "The Alexandria Quartet," all 4 are magnificant novels. "Justine" focuses on the beautiful Jewish wife of a wealthy Copt. Her story is told by Darley, her English lover. Set in Alexandria.
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 | The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Buy used from: £4.66 Set in London during, and just after World War II, Greene's novel is an agonizing examination of a three-way collision between love of self, love of another, and love of God. Moving & beautiful.
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 | Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Buy new: £2.85 / Used from: £0.01 A pure sensual delight of romantic love & love of food set in 1900 Mexico. Magical, earthy, very bittersweet - like chocolate!
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 | A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.50 A young woman miraculously survives a Japanese "death march" in WWar II. A gallant Australian soldier, also a prisoner of war, offers to help her at the cost of his life. Surprises, adventure & love.
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 | The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Buy new: £2.85 / Used from: £0.55 Near the end of WWII 4 damaged people gather in an Italian villa-a nurse; a maimed thief; the wary sapper- each haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless burned man dying of memories.
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 | Eva Luna (Essential Penguin) by Isabel Allende
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Set in Latin America , (probably Chile), Eva's escapes the world by inventing magical, surreal stories when life becomes too painful to bear. She loves a German film maker. Lyrical, poignant, moving.
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 | Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A literary mystery cum romance - 2 English couples, one in the 20th century, the other in the 19th...& all that connects them. Beautifully written. A joy to read!
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 | The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Buy used from: £2.96 Architect Howard Roarke and socialite Dominique Francon love intensely, while exploring the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. There's romance too!
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| The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £5.57 / Used from: £0.01 Set during the Prague Spring, later in Switzerland.Tomas, a liberal Prague surgeon loves his wife deeply, while he also maintains a longtime liason with another woman. Conflict between love & freedom.
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 | Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
Buy used from: £0.01 Claudia Hampton, unconventional historian & former war correspondent is dying of cancer. Her thoughts move randomly across time &place to reconstruct her life & remembers, with intensity, an old love
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