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Ester Freud's top 10 love stories
From Boris Pasternak to Nancy Mitford, the novelist lines up the stories that have broken her heart.
Jane Eyre
By Charlotte Bronte
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Published 29-Jun-2006
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Tells the story of orphaned Jane Eyre, who grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, enduring loneliness and cruelty. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she finds employment as a governess to the young ward of Byronic, brooding Mr Rochester.
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
By Thomas Hardy
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Published 30-Jan-2003
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When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall.
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Anna Karenina
By Leo Tolstoy
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Published 06-Sep-1995
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Anna Karenina is one of the loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. This book addresses the very nature of society at various levels - of destiny, death, human relationships and the irreconcilable contradictions of existence.
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Doctor Zhivago
By Boris Pasternak
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Published 05-Sep-2002
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Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, wrestles with the new order and confronts the changes cruel experience has made in him and the anguish of being torn between the love of two women. This novel talks about Russia in the throes of revolution, offering a love story.
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Pursuit of Love
By Nancy Mitford
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Published 04-Mar-2010
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Longing for love, obsessed with weddings and sex, Linda and her sisters and cousin Fanny are on lookout for the perfect lover. But finding Mr Right is much harder than any of the sisters had thought. Linda must suffer marriage first to a stuffy Tory MP and then to a handsome and humourless communist, before finding real love in war-torn Paris...
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Weather in the Streets
By Rosamond Lehmann
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Published 02-Mar-2006
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the sequel to AN INVITATION TO THE WALTZ a novel of searing honesty and a passionate portrayal of forbidden love
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Unaccustomed Earth
By Jhumpa Lahiri
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Published 01-Jun-2009
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The Number One New York Times bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies and The NamesakeWinner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book
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History of Love
By Nicole Krauss
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Published 06-Jan-2006
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Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating, she sets out in search of its author. Across New York an old man called Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer.
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One Day
By David Nicholls
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Published 04-Feb-2010
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ONE DAY is the multi-million copy bestselling novel that brilliantly captures the experiences of a generation.
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