What is your favorite literary romance?

>>24559644 (OP)
I legit never found a romance across literature that resonates with me in any way. I suppose is mostly because love is this invisible, unspeakable thing, deeply personal in nature, that neither novel or classic slop have been able to nail down for me. But somewhat related, there's this Finnish author that does VN's that have written my absolutely favorites love tales of all times, so there's that if anything.

A Farewell to Arms without a doubt.

>>24559644 (OP)
Geralt and Yennefer

between me and my soul

>>24559644 (OP)
Heathcliff and Cathy

>>24559969
kino

And never yet, since high in Paradise
O'er the four rivers the first roses blew,
Came purer pleasure unto mortal kind
Than lived through her, who in that perilous hour
Put hand to hand beneath her husband's heart,
And felt him hers again: she did not weep,
But o'er her meek eyes came a happy mist
Like that which kept the heart of Eden green
Between the useful trouble of the rain.

>>24559969
Ishmael is black.

Werther and the borrowed pistol

>>24559674
>Geralt and Yennefer
Cuckold

>>24559674
>Geralt and Yennefer
Cuckquean

>>24559644 (OP)
The Sound of Waves, because it is simple enough to be true

>>24560582
>>24560774
They both cheat on each other so it cancels out.

>>24559644 (OP)
Solveig and Peer Gynt

femanon here. does Obssessive Loving Rape exists from the male pov or is it just cope for how much women are hated?

>>24561858
>does Obssessive Loving Rape exists from the male pov
It doesn't. If you don't care if she suffers, you don't love her. Women just cope about shitty guys or whatever.

So many great romances to choose from
>Monster Musume
>Now I'm a Demon Lord: Happily Ever After with Monster Girls in my Dungeon
>Uma Musume
>Girls und Panzer
>Kantai Collection
>Bakemonogatari
>5 cm Per Second
>Your Name

>>24561858
Personally I don't think marital rape is very nice.

isekai smartphone

>>24560562
Would I be wrong to interpret he did it out of spite?

>>24561858
I just don't get rape. It might the only crime where there's really no rational justification for it. It's a purely animalistic action.

>>24563112
>It might the only crime where there's really no rational justification for it.
Arson? School shootings? White collar theft? That guy who poisoned Tylenol?

>>24563099
To make her suffer? No, he just wanted a way out of his obsession.

>>24563348
Why borrow the gun? Could have done many other ways and far away.

>>24561858
Where is this passage from?

>>24563448
He must've thought about killing himself every single day. Even wanted to jump off a cliff (where he lost his hat). A gun was a guaranteed way. He talked about suicide with Albert multiiple times, and Albert was likely the most accessible (to Werther) source of firearms at the time.
But Werther also had pleasure in getting the gun from Albert specifically, thus involving him into the [indirect gun]fight for Lotte. Imagine how hard he must've came when his servant said Lotte herself gave the pistols, essentially giving her blessings.

>The Red and the Black
by Stendhal

Brideshead Revisited. I fell in love with Julia, she would have been the perfect wife, if she were not already the perfect wife.

>>24559644 (OP)
Books are expensive when new, and young I went through dry periods. No less than three times, I was recommended to try romance. All three times, I hated it.
Years later, as an adult. "the Last Enchantment". It was a paperback, in a house I bought. I actually liked it. The author (I think female) got a big bestseller, out of combining fantasy with romance. *NOT* a smut fest. Had a plot that was engaging.
Romance by itself, I tend to hate. Mixed with a percentage of other genre(s) though? It can work, and add realism and life to the dry story.

>>24563058
>Personally I don't think marital rape is very nice.
Really? I always thought it was a hot night, when the wife rapes me. Oh no, please don't whatever will I do.

>>24559659
Here you go, I guarantee this one will.

>>24563195
>arson
Fires cool, shut up
>School shootings
Fair point.
>white collar theft
Nigga please.
>poisoned Tylenol
Qrd?

humbert humbert x dolores
>picrel is a manhwa edition of lolita.

>>24565220
True

>>24561862
What if you do care?

>>24563058
Don't worry, they aren't married yet! :-)

Jokes aside,
>>24563112
I will try my best to explain, but this is actually specifically part of the appeal: a man who is otherwise practical and emotionally hardened lapsing in self-control when it comes to you specifically and giving into senseless selfish desire/passion/whatever. There's also a component here in that, even when fantasizing, women struggle to comfortably disinhibit themselves without feeling like a whore so an imagined scenario where you are forced to go along with it circumvents that.

Women "really" want to be raped by alphachad in the same way that men "really" want to die in war - as in, objectively knowing these are horrible traumatizing things that Fuck You Up, and yet the fantasy has an inexplicable allure because of one million years of cultural and instinctual drives ingrained deep into our brains. Men have been fighting since the dawn of society and dying for their tribe, women ideally mate with those that are aggressive and possessive enough to do just that: protect them and their offspring.

Admittedly though, 100% Rape like bookrel is probably too extreme for most modern ~dark fantasy~ booktok slop romance readers, wherein the woman physically enjoys it and the evil mafiabosswerewolfdemonlord gives a safeword or whatever. In a silly way, I am very particular about my Fantasy Rape.

>>24559690
>>24560113
Based

Paolo and francesca
Hyperion and diotima

>>24560963
Is it cheating if they never say they're official really? Both clearly care deeply about each other but are too afraid to actually commit.

>>24565131
>>poisoned Tylenol
>Qrd?
why we cant have nice things, example 128
someone was poisoned; poison was in Tylenol plastic bottle. Its the single reason why some aspirin bottles are adult-proof. This was around the same time when razor blades in Halloween candy became some sort of horror story on morning news shows.

>>24561858
>femanon here
I don't think so. Every time a post start like this, it just doesn't add up, try again.

>>24559644 (OP)
Mina and Jonathan from Dracula

>>24570037
How so?

>>24564853
Sell me on it