Here are the top twenty stories that get the British female hearts beating fastest:
1 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë, 1847(*Sigh* I'm still in love with Captain Corelli.)
2 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen, 1813
3 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare, 1597
4 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë, 1847
5 Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell, 1936
6 The English Patient Michael Ondaatje, 1992
7 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier, 1938
8 Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak, 1957
9 Lady Chatterley's Lover DH Lawrence, 1928
10 Far from The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy, 1874
11 = My Fair Lady Alan Jay Lerner, 1956
The African Queen CS Forester, 1935
13 The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
14 Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen, 1811
15 = The Way We Were Arthur Laurents, 1972
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy, 1865
17 Frenchman's Creek Daphne du Maurier, 1942
18 Persuasion Jane Austen, 1818
19 Take a Girl Like You Kingsley Amis, 1960
20 Daniel Deronda George Eliot, 1876
The UKTV site lets you also check out who is your ideal hero/heroine with a fun quiz and sets out some useful rules for writing your own effective love story.
21 comments:
I am apparently sub consciously in love with Daniel Deronda ;)
Why isn't The Time Traveller's Wife in this list I wonder?? A terrific love story.
ali and nino - by kurban said
Heathcliff. Apparently I don't do nice guys, it's fire, passion and lashings of angst. Tell me something I don't know.
Gosh, I'll have to read Wuthering Heights now.
Sham, who is Daniel Deronda? He must be nicer than Heathcliff.
Phineas Poe and Jude
everytime mr sufian said something i had to google it.
i'd love to see this gentleman's library.
The greatest love stories ever written are Nabokov's. I'd rate 'Ada' at number one and 'Lolita' at number two. Another that needs to be mentioned is 'Pale Fire'. And let's not forget 'The Gift'.
I agree with Mr. da Silva regarding Lolita. Excellent book.
Ooo... haven't read a few in the list -- should I? Old now but still a romantic, so I should.
How about 'Bridges of Madison County'?
Dunno la - he's George Elliot's character and the book is titled after him. I actually tried the quiz twice and ended up with the same man. I changed everything except for the dirty beachfront weekend and it was the same thing (I exxaggerate of course - but still!!!!!!!).
And apparently my tempestuous persona requires a Catherine Earnshaw:-)
haha, this is really funny, i got ol danny deronda too. but i've never read the book. *shame* guess i'm laughing at sham's reply since it was a close one for me between dirty beachfront weekend and thoughtful, considered present. i say why can't a girl have both ...
mr.darcy! mr.darcy! Jane Sunshine
My ideal lover is Lizzie Bennet fom Pride And Prejudice. I had a feeling that she would be my ideal lover even before doing the quiz. I've always been fascinated with her after reading the book.So, anyone out there who is Lizzie Bennet personafied, please mail me. I want to know you ;p;p.
Penanak Nasik
Penanak Nasik,
I'll mail you if you're Heathcliff personified.
Lizzie Bennet,
I seriously do not understand why everybody is fascinated with this Heathcliff. Seriously, i think that every man has the ability to be Heathcliff. Circumstances made him that way.
Answering to your question whether i am Heathcliff personified or not; i do not know the answer to the question. Maybe i am; and maybe i'm not; but not knowing whether a man is or is not what he claimed to be is part of the thrill of discovering a new personality. Wouldn't you like to explore for yourself? ;p;p... So, am i still getting a mail from you Miss Bennet?;p
Tata,
Penanak Nasik
heathcliff, lizzie bennett - although you are from different books i think you sound like you are on the same page, so put me out of my misery and go out on a date together, even if it is only to starbucks!!
now, anyone else want to be fixed up?
(by the woman who married a rough diamond thinking she could polish him up)
Penanak Nasik,
And how should I mail you? Cross the windswept moors in my mud splattered petticoats?
Mail me at zamzai14@yahoo.com lizzie. I'll be waiting,
tata
Penanak Nasik
this is looking promising. you have to tell us all what happens!
Oh really??? *wink* wink*
Penanak Nasik
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