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1928 •
Banned until 1960 for its explicit depictions of sex and use of then-banned words, Lawrence's story follows the affair between a working class man and an upper class woman.
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
55 days
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1856 •
When her marriage becomes dull and monotonous, Emma desperately seeks to turn her fantasies of luxury and passion into reality.
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
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1597 •
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, star-crossed lovers from warring families come together for a tragically brief time in this most famous of romances.
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
42 days
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1920 •
Newland Archer finds himself falling in love with a mysterious Countess, forcing him to make a life-changing decision between her and the conventional May Welland.
Villette
Charlotte Bronte
76 days
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1853 •
Fleeing an unhappy life in England, Lucy Snowe starts anew in the cosmopolitan French city of Villette. Her desire for independence soon faces two tests in the form of a worldly doctor and autocratic schoolmaster.
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
43 days
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1847 •
The classic Gothic tale of love, passion, and death that spans generations on the lonely moors of Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights.
Les Fleurs du mal
Charles Baudelaire
10 days
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1857 •
Declared by Victor Hugo to have created "un nouveau frisson" (a new shudder, a new thrill) in literature, this volume of poetry and its themes of decadence and eroticism is a critical work of the symbolist and modernist movements.
Dangerous Liaisons
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
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1782 •
In the decadence of the French aristocracy before the Revolution, two rivals use seduction to humiliate and take revenge upon others.
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
Joseph Bédier
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1900 •
The medieval tragedy of a forbidden romance between Cornish knight Trisan and Iseult, an Irish princess. A likely influence of Arthurian romance.
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