Books like Pierre and Luce
In Paris in early 1918, under German shelling, Pierre, an eighteen-year-old about to be called up, meets Luce, a poor young artist, in the Métro during an air raid.
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The Well of Loneliness
Stephen Gordon, named by a father who wanted a son, grows up at Morton Hall in Worcestershire knowing she loves women, and looks for a place for herself as a writer, an ambulance driver in the war and in the lesbian salons of Paris.
Strait Is the Gate
Jérôme loves his cousin Alissa from childhood, and she loves him, but her piety and her conviction that love must reach for something higher keep pushing him away.
A Farewell to Arms
An American ambulance driver and a British nurse fall in love on the Italian front in World War I, and the war grinds their happiness to nothing.
Victoria
Johannes, the miller's son, has loved Victoria, the daughter of the manor, since childhood, and when he comes back a famous poet the gulf of class is still between them.
Birdsong
In 1910 Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman sent to Amiens to learn the textile trade, falls in love with the unhappy wife of his host; six years later he is an officer in the trenches a few miles away.
The Dancing Girl of Izu
Stories from Kawabata's early career, among them a lonely Tokyo student who falls in with a family of travelling performers on the Izu peninsula and is drawn to their young dancer.
L'Arrabbiata
On the coast near Sorrento, Laurella, a proud young woman who has sworn never to marry, is rowed across to Capri by Antonino, a boatman who has loved her from afar.
The Bread of Those Early Years
Walter Fendrich, who went hungry in the bombed-out cities after the war and now has money and a girlfriend, is sent to meet a girl from his home town at the station and falls for her on sight.
One of Ours
Claude Wheeler, a restless Nebraska farm boy who feels he was meant for something larger, finds it when America enters the First World War.
Shosha
In 1930s Warsaw, Aaron Greidinger, a struggling young Yiddish writer, goes back to the street where he grew up and finds Shosha, his childhood sweetheart, who has never grown up.
Across the River and into the Trees
Colonel Richard Cantwell, fifty, scarred by two wars and with a failing heart, spends a winter weekend in Venice duck-hunting and with Renata, a young Venetian countess who loves him.
The Train Was on Time
In 1943 Andreas, a young German soldier on a troop train heading back to the Eastern Front, is certain he will die within days, and counts down the time.