![]() ![]() These authors depict love like it is a curse or a disease – invariably fatal. The same goes for Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), by Gabriel García Márquez, or Stephen Dobyns’s 1988 The Two Deaths of Signora Puccini. I could have included the short story, Brokeback Mountain, by Annie Proulx, but it is so exceedingly sad that it is more about misery than about love. They may be old, but they are still very good indeed. ![]() But the novels listed here are so well written that decades, even a century, after they were published, they are still on must-read lists. There are more published romances than you can throw a bridal bouquet at, and many are the sort that you buy at the check-out counter, read in a day and throw away. It’s Spring, love is in the air and it’s wedding season, so now is the time to revisit some excellent romantic novels.
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