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2. Romance novel - Wikipedia

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   A romance novel or romantic novel is a genre fiction novel that primarily focuses on the relationship and romantic love between two people, typically with an emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending. Authors who have contributed to the development of this genre include Maria Edgeworth, Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, and Charlotte Brontë.

3. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Wikipedia

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   What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is a 1981 collection of short stories by American writer Raymond Carver, as well as the title of one of the stories in the collection. Considered by many one of American literature's most ambitious short-story collections, it was this collection that turned Raymond Carver into a household name in the ...

4. Romantic literature in English - Wikipedia

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   The Romantic movement in English literature of the early 19th century has its roots in 18th-century poetry, the Gothic novel and the novel of sensibility. [6] [7] This includes the pre-Romantic graveyard poets from the 1740s, whose works are characterized by gloomy meditations on mortality, "skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms". [8]

5. White Nights (short story) - Wikipedia

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   Like many of Dostoevsky's stories, "White Nights" is told in the first person by a nameless narrator. The narrator is a young man living in Saint Petersburg who suffers from loneliness. He gets to know and falls in love with a young woman, but the love remains unrequited as the woman misses her lover, with whom she is finally reunited.

6. Category:Love stories - Wikipedia

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   Taj Mahal: An Eternal Love Story; The Taming of the Shrew; Tarzan & Jane; Texas (musical) The Thorn Birds; Those Who Love (novel) Titanic (1997 film) To Sir Phillip, With Love; A Town Like Alice; Tristan and Iseult; Troilus and Cressida; Troilus and Criseyde; Twice Upon a Time (1953 film) Twilight (novel series) The Two Gentlemen of Verona

7. Romantic literature - Wikipedia

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   The Romantic movement in America created a new literary genre that continues to influence American writers. Novels, short stories, and poems replaced the sermons and manifestos of yore. Romantic literature was personal, intense, and portrayed more emotion than ever seen in neoclassical literature.

8. Araby (short story) - Wikipedia

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   Among later writers influenced by "Araby" was John Updike, whose oft-anthologized short story "A&P" is a 1960s American reimagining of Joyce's tale of a young man, lately the wiser for his frustrating infatuation with a beautiful but inaccessible girl. Her allure has excited him into confusing his emergent sexual impulses for those of honor and ...

9. Amatory fiction - Wikipedia

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   It was often spread throughout coteries, published while trying to remain true to the writer's vision without criticism. Amatory fiction predates, and in some ways predicts, the invention of the novel and is an early predecessor of the romance novel. Indeed, many themes of the contemporary romance novel were first explored in amatory fiction.