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Love (Part 4 of 'The Guardian's 1000 Novels Everone Should Read') - Page 2

"So, what makes a great love story? Initially, this seemed the easiest of the seven categories . All great novels are essentially about love, aren't they? As it turned out, things weren't so easy. There is often precious little loving going on in these famous love stories and ,with the exceptions of Jane Austen and sometimes Dickens, there are very few guaranteed happy endings. "Reader, I married him" is quite definitely the exception to the rule — unless our poor heroine has married the wrong man, or he is in love with someone else. The contemporary novel, for one, has fallen out of love with love. When our most successful and popular authors choose to write love stories, they look to the past, and you can be sure that in any poll of the nation's favourite novels Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights will be somewhere at the top. So perhaps we haven't become disillusioned with romance itself, just distrustful of its ability to thrive in such a cynical age" (Guardian)
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The Blue Flower
The Blue Flower
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Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary
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The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford)
The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford)
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A Room With a View
A Room With a View
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
The French Lieutenant's Woman
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The Snow Goose
The Snow Goose
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Ruth
Ruth
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Strait Is the Gate
Strait Is the Gate
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Sunset Song
Sunset Song
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Sorrows of Young Werther
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Living
Living
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The End of the Affair
The End of the Affair
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The Well of Loneliness
The Well of Loneliness
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Far From the Madding Crowd
Far From the Madding Crowd
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Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
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Tess of the D'urbervilles
Tess of the D'urbervilles
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The Woodlanders
The Woodlanders
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The Go-Between
The Go-Between
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The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
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The Transit of Venus
The Transit of Venus
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A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms
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An Infamous Army
An Infamous Army
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Regency Buck
Regency Buck
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The Swimming Pool Library
The Swimming Pool Library
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Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest
Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Crome Yellow
Crome Yellow
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The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
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Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
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The Wings of the Dove (Henry James)
The Wings of the Dove (Henry James)
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The Piano Teacher (Elfriede Jelinek)
The Piano Teacher (Elfriede Jelinek)
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Beauty and Sadness
Beauty and Sadness
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The Far Pavilions
The Far Pavilions
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Zorba the Greek
Zorba the Greek
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Moon Over Africa
Moon Over Africa
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
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Lady Chatterly's Lover
Lady Chatterly's Lover
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The Rainbow (D.H. Lawrence)
The Rainbow (D.H. Lawrence)
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