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Some of the most famous love stories ever written end in tears. Here you'll find tragic novels by Victor Hugo and Nathaniel Hawthorne, plays by William Shakespeare, narrative poems and medieval legends.
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Heathcliff and Catherine, Anna Karenina, Emma Bovary, Gatsby and Daisy all meet a heartbreaking end. These tragic love novels follow each couple all the way to the last page.
Heathcliff and Catherine love each other with a passion that destroys everyone around them. Emily Brontë's only novel is one of the darkest and most haunting love stories ever written.
Anna risks her marriage, her son and her place in society for Count Vronsky, and pays for every choice. Tolstoy's masterpiece is the great tragic love novel of Russian literature.
Emma Bovary dreams of the passion she reads about in novels and looks for it in affairs and debts. Flaubert's portrait of a woman trapped by her own illusions is impossible to forget.
Jay Gatsby builds a fortune and a mansion for one reason: to win back Daisy Buchanan. Our own Project Aldus edition of Fitzgerald's novel about a love that cannot repeat the past.
Tess loves Angel Clare, but a secret from her past comes between them. Hardy's most heartbreaking novel follows an innocent woman crushed by fate and by the men around her.
Hester Prynne wears a scarlet A for a love she refuses to deny, while the man she loved hides his guilt. Hawthorne's classic of passion, shame and secrecy in Puritan New England.
Werther falls in love with Lotte, who is already promised to another man. Told in letters, Goethe's short novel captures the despair of a love that has nowhere to go.
Quasimodo, the priest Frollo and Captain Phoebus all fall for Esmeralda, and none of them can save her. Victor Hugo's great novel of love and obsession in the shadow of the cathedral.
Newland Archer is engaged to the perfect May Welland when he falls for her unconventional cousin Ellen. Wharton's Pulitzer-winning novel about duty, desire and the life not lived.
Marguerite, the most admired courtesan in Paris, gives up everything for the young Armand Duval. The novel that inspired La Traviata and one of the saddest love stories of the 19th century.
In a frozen New England village, a poor farmer falls in love with his wife's young cousin. A short, intense novel with one of the most devastating endings in American literature.
Lily Bart needs a rich husband, but the only man she truly loves is Lawrence Selden. Wharton's novel follows her fall through New York high society, one missed chance at a time.
The Chevalier des Grieux gives up his family, his fortune and his honor for the beautiful, unfaithful Manon. The 18th-century French classic of a love that drags both lovers down.
Two young lovers from rival families marry in secret and race against a feud that will not end. Our own Project Aldus edition of the most famous love tragedy ever written.
Othello and Desdemona marry for love, until Iago poisons him with jealousy one lie at a time. Shakespeare's tragedy of trust and betrayal in a beautifully designed edition.
Mark Antony gives up an empire for Cleopatra, and Rome will not forgive either of them. Shakespeare's grand tragedy of two lovers too proud to surrender.
Cyrano writes the love letters that win Roxane's heart, but signs them with another man's name. Rostand's play is witty, romantic and heartbreaking to the last line.
During the Trojan War, Troilus swears eternal love to Cressida just before she is handed over to the Greeks. Shakespeare's bitter take on a love story that war tears apart.
A widowed duchess secretly marries her steward against the will of her brothers. Webster's Jacobean tragedy is dark, violent and one of the great love stories of the English stage.
On her wedding day, Evangeline is separated from her beloved Gabriel when their village is deported. Longfellow's narrative poem follows her lifelong search for him across America.
A sailor lost at sea for ten years comes home to find his wife married to his best friend. Tennyson's most moving narrative poem, together with Tithonus and other poems from 1864.
A man remembers the girl he loved in a kingdom by the sea, a love so strong the angels envied it. Poe's last complete poem, with a short introduction to its meaning.
Lancelot and Guinevere, Lancelot and Elaine, Tristram and Isolt: Tennyson retells the loves that brought down Camelot. A cycle of narrative poems full of devotion, betrayal and loss.
Young Tatiana pours her heart into a letter to Onegin, and he coldly turns her away. Years later, the roles are reversed. Pushkin's novel in verse is the founding love story of Russian literature.
Dante tells, in poems and prose, how he fell in love with Beatrice at nine years old and how he mourned her death. The book of love and grief that led to the Divine Comedy.
Tristan and Iseult, Abelard and Heloise, Pyramus and Thisbe: the oldest love stories with sad endings start here. Later novels and plays borrowed from them again and again.
A love potion binds Tristan to Iseult, the bride of his own uncle, King Mark. Bédier's retelling of the medieval legend that shaped every tragic love story after it.
A brilliant teacher and his young student fall in love and are torn apart forever. The real letters of medieval France's most famous lovers, with Pope's poem Eloisa to Abelard.
The forbidden love of Lancelot and Guinevere, and of Tristram and Isolde, ends in the fall of the Round Table. Malory's complete account of the Arthurian legends.
Pyramus and Thisbe, Orpheus and Eurydice, Echo and Narcissus: the Greek and Roman myths of doomed lovers start here. Ovid's classic in the 1717 verse translation edited by Samuel Garth.
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