Literature’s Greatest Love Affairs

Captain Corelli and whatshername. Loved that book so much. It made me cry and laugh.

Larissa and Zhivago for me. Doomed just doomed.

No eazybee Miss Piggy and Kermit

Calandergirl, I ‘ll have to re-read all the books before the new one comes out just to get into the flow again!

Noddy and Big Ears

These are one of my current favourites:
www.fantasticfiction.com/n/sharan-newman/catherine-levendeur/

They are historical mysteries, but in Catherine and Edgar, we see how their teachers' real life affair might have had a happy ending (Heloise and Abelard)

For persistence and devotion, Walter Hartwright and Laura Fairlie (The Woman in White)

And, more up to date, I'm also a fan of Sharon McCone & Hy Ripinsky
www.fantasticfiction.com/m/marcia-muller/

Yes, but Cathy and Heathcliffe were such horrible people so not a romance to admire. Not like Jane and Rochester, now that's romance.

Anna Karenina and Vronsky

I have a very soft spot for Cormoran Niobe.

Can Scarlett and Rhett be counted as a love affair?

What do you mean almostelderly?

Of course it was a love affair!

John Thomas and Lady Jane, Lady Chatterly’s Lover

Christian Grey and Anastasia Steel, Shades of Grey

Oliver and Jenny, Love story

You lot are so well read! I've never heard of many of those.
Except I was going to say Heathcliff and Cathy. I have read Wuthering Heights.

Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester, I know he blind but it was a happy ending nonetheless. Lara and Dr Zhivago was the classic unhappy ending for a love affair. Can Scarlett and Rhett be counted as a love affair?

The new Cormoran Strike book is due out in the autumn❤️

Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott.

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.

Achilles and Patroclus
Lupin and Tonks
Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot

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

Jane Eyre and Rochester.

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.

Maxim deWinter and the 2nd Mrs deWinter

That should have read Elizabeth Bennett!

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

Elizabeth Barrett and Fitzwilliam Darcy

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

Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman???