Manon Lescaut

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.

Emily Brontë

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.

Leo Tolstoy

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.

Gustave Flaubert

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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.

Thomas Hardy