Literature’s Greatest Love Affairs

Maurice and Sarah in The End of the Affair

Also doomed but with added miracles

Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan.

Ross and Demelza Poldark, Heathcliff and Cathy, Pierre and Natasha in War and Peace.

Madame Bovary and Léon
Meggie and Ralph in The Thorn Birds

Jean Paget and Joe Harman in A Town Like Alice.

Jane Eyre and Edward Fairfax Rochester.

Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler.

C.S. Lewis and Joy (Davidman).

Cleopatra and Mark Antony

Romeo and Juliet

Homer and Marge Simpson

Orpheus and Eurydice

Lara and Yuri in Dr Zhivago.

Cathy and Heathcliff

Scarlett and Rhett

Nina and Jamie , ‘Truly,Madly,Deeply. - not in literature but !

Lancelot and Guinevere, Tristran and Iseut, Hélöise and Abélard.

Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman???

Elizabeth Barrett and Fitzwilliam Darcy

Florentino Anza & Fermina Daza from Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

That should have read Elizabeth Bennett!

Maxim deWinter and the 2nd Mrs deWinter

For me it's Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.

She had an extremely controlling and cruel father (he threatened her little dog Flush if she didn't obey him) and
was confined to the upstairs room in her father's house for many years.

However, her book of poetry made her famous and Browning visited, fell in love and contrived a secret wedding. She was 40.

After a blissfully happy marriad life in Italy, though with many personal sadnesses, she died at 55 in Robert's arms.

Jane Eyre and Rochester.

Robert Kincaid and Francesca in The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller (Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep in the film)

Achilles and Patroclus
Lupin and Tonks
Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot

Claire Elizabeth Beauchamp Randall Fraser and James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser, Claire and Jamie from the Outlander series of books. Not "high" literature, but very entertaining.

Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott.