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2. Romance (prose fiction) - Wikipedia

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   Literary fiction, in the book-trade, are novels that are regarded as having literary merit and can employ a variety of subgenres, including the love romance novel, the historical novel, the adventure novel, and scientific romance. Works of nautical fiction can also be romances, as the genre often overlaps with historical romance, adventure ...

3. Love Story (novel) - Wikipedia

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   Oliver's Story (novel) Love Story is a 1970 novel by American writer Erich Segal. Segal wrote a screenplay that was subsequently approved for production by Paramount Pictures. Paramount requested that Segal adapt the story into a novel as part of the film's marketing campaign. The novel was released on February 14, 1970 ( Valentine's Day ), [1 ...

4. Layla and Majnun - Wikipedia

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   in Tashkent. v. t. e. Layla and Majnun ( Arabic: مجنون ليلى majnūn laylā "Layla's Mad Lover"; Persian: لیلی و مجنون, romanized : laylâ-o-majnun) [1] is an old story of Arab origin, [2] [3] about the 7th-century Arabic poet Qays ibn al-Mulawwah and his lover Layla bint Mahdi (later known as Layla al-Aamiriya). [4]

5. The Love of a Good Woman - Wikipedia

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   The Love of a Good Woman is a collection of short stories by Canadian writer Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1998 . The eight stories of this collection (one of which was originally published in Saturday Night; five others were originally published in The New Yorker) deal with Munro's typical themes: secrets, love, betrayal ...

6. First Love (short story) - Wikipedia

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   First Love (short story) " First Love " is a short story by Samuel Beckett, written in 1946 and first published in its original French version in 1970 and, in Beckett's English translation, in 1973 . The narrator tells of his discovery on a park bench (where he loitered after becoming homeless upon the death of his father) by a prostitute who ...

7. Fifty Shades of Grey - Wikipedia

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   Fifty Shades Darker. Fifty Shades of Grey is a 2011 erotic romance novel by British author E. L. James. [1] It became the first instalment in the Fifty Shades novel series that follows the deepening relationship between a college graduate, Anastasia Steele, and a young business magnate, Christian Grey. It contains explicitly erotic scenes ...

8. Romantic comedy - Wikipedia

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   Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and romance fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. [1] In a typical romantic comedy, the two lovers tend to be young, likeable, and seemingly meant for each other, yet ...

9. Old Love (story) - Wikipedia

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   Publisher. Hodder & Stoughton. " Old Love " is a short story written by English author Jeffrey Archer. Published in 1980 in Archer's A Quiver Full of Arrows by Hodder & Stoughton, it is the tale of two undergraduates at Oxford in the 1930s and their bitter rivalry that ends in a tragic love story. [1] [2]