
Greatest Love Story Meme
August 14, 2007It’s a slow day at work, perfect for a meme. (I got this from Ted).
Legend:
I’ve read it
I want to read it
I’ve seen the movie*
I’m indifferent
I have it on DVD**
I want to marry the leading man/lady!
The list:
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë, 1847*
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, 1813**
- Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare, 1597**
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë, 1847*
- Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell, 1936*
- The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje, 1992*
- Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier, 1938*
- Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak, 1957
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover, DH Lawrence, 1928
- Far from The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy, 1874
- My Fair Lady, Alan Jay Lerner, 1956*
- The African Queen, CS Forester, 1935
- The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald, 1925*
- Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen, 1811*
- The Way We Were, Arthur Laurents, 1972
- War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, 1865
- Frenchman’s Creek, Daphne du Maurier, 1942
- Persuasion, Jane Austen, 1818*
- Take a Girl Like You, Kingsley Amis, 1960
- Daniel Deronda, George Eliot, 1876
- Maurice, E.M. Forester, 1971 (posth.)
- The Good Solider: A Tale of Passion, Ford Madox Ford, 1915
- The Goldbug Variations, Richard Powers, 1991
Call Dad–he got a great hard backed copy of War and Peace at Mrs. Cuddy’s yardsale and is reading it now.
Thanks, mom. That’s great news about dad, but I’m definitely going to read a new translation the day I finally do read War and Peace.
What did you think of Maurice? My interest was piqued by that book I read on obscenity trials in literature.
imani, I love Maurice, and Forster in general. His writing is crisp and lovely, and the story is heartbreaking. Plus, thinking about it from the standpoint of obscenity is very fruitful. Strongly, strongly recommended.