Notre Dame de Paris

The most famous love tragedy ever written. Two young lovers caught between feuding families, and the misunderstanding that ends them both.

William Shakespeare

A man builds an entire fortune to win back the woman he lost. A portrait of longing for a past that cannot be repeated.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A woman leaves her marriage for a love that promises everything and delivers ruin. Tolstoy fullest study of passion, jealousy and social punishment.

Leo Tolstoy

Love turned into revenge across two generations. The hardest and least sentimental of the great heartbreak novels.

Emily Bronte

The novel that defined heartbreak for European literature. Told in letters, short enough to read in one sitting, and still the most direct account of loving someone you cannot have.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe