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The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
42 days •
ⓘ 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.
Dangerous Liaisons
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
46 days •
ⓘ 1782 • In the decadence of the French aristocracy before the Revolution, two rivals use seduction to humiliate and take revenge upon others.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
D.H. Lawrence
41 days •
ⓘ 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.
Les Fleurs du mal
Charles Baudelaire
10 days •
ⓘ 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.
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
55 days •
ⓘ 1856 • When her marriage becomes dull and monotonous, Emma desperately seeks to turn her fantasies of luxury and passion into reality.
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
Joseph Bédier
9 days •
ⓘ 1900 • The medieval tragedy of a forbidden romance between Cornish knight Trisan and Iseult, an Irish princess. A likely influence of Arthurian romance.
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
15 days •
ⓘ 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.
Villette
Charlotte Bronte
76 days •
ⓘ 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 •
ⓘ 1847 • The classic Gothic tale of love, passion, and death that spans generations on the lonely moors of Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights.
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