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Eros, friendship, devotion and the trouble they cause.

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The AeneidVirgil · 29-19 BCEOn 9 lists ConfessionsAugustine · 397-400On 9 lists SymposiumPlato · c. 380 BCEOn 7 lists Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · c. 340 BCEOn 7 lists On the Nature of ThingsLucretius · c. 55 BCEOn 7 lists Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes · 1605-1615On 7 lists The Divine ComedyDante Alighieri · c. 1308-1320On 6 lists The Canterbury TalesGeoffrey Chaucer · c. 1387-1400On 6 lists FaustJohann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808On 6 lists Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen · 1813On 5 lists War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy · 1865-1869On 5 lists MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot · 1871-1872On 5 lists To the LighthouseVirginia Woolf · 1927On 5 lists HippolytusEuripides · 428 BCEOn 4 lists PhaedrusPlato · c. 370 BCEOn 4 lists PhaedraJean Racine · 1677On 4 lists The Second SexSimone de Beauvoir · 1949On 4 lists If Not, Winter: Fragments of SapphoSappho · c. 600 BCEOn 3 lists MetamorphosesOvid · 8 CEOn 3 lists OthelloWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1603-1604On 3 lists SonnetsWilliam Shakespeare · 1609On 3 lists EmmaJane Austen · 1815On 3 lists Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert · 1857On 3 lists The Epic of GilgameshAnonymous · c. 1200 BCEOn 2 lists LysistrataAristophanes · 411 BCEOn 2 lists The First Epistle of Paul to the CorinthiansPaul the Apostle · c. 53-55 CEOn 2 lists Gospel of JohnThe Bible · c. 90-110 CEOn 2 lists Troilus and CriseydeGeoffrey Chaucer · c. 1382-1386On 2 lists The Faerie QueeneEdmund Spenser · 1590-1596On 2 lists As You Like ItWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1599On 2 lists Twelfth NightWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1601On 2 lists Antony and CleopatraWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1606-1607On 2 lists The School for WivesMolière · 1662On 2 lists The MisanthropeMolière · 1666On 2 lists The MiserMolière · 1668On 2 lists Don GiovanniWolfgang Amadeus Mozart · 1787On 2 lists PoemsJohn Keats · 1816-1820On 2 lists Swann's WayMarcel Proust · 1913On 2 lists DublinersJames Joyce · 1914On 2 lists The Waste LandT. 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Eliot · 1922On 2 lists Song of SolomonToni Morrison · 1977On 2 lists LettersCicero · 68-43 BCEOn 1 list On FriendshipCicero · 44 BCEOn 1 list EcloguesVirgil · c. 39 BCEOn 1 list GeorgicsVirgil · 29 BCEOn 1 list Odes and EpodesHorace · 30-13 BCEOn 1 list MoraliaPlutarch · c. 80-120On 1 list The Lais of Marie de FranceMarie de France · c. 1160-1190On 1 list The NibelungenliedAnonymous · c. 1200On 1 list The Translator of DesiresIbn Arabi · c. 1215On 1 list The Saga of the VolsungsAnonymous · c. 1250-1300On 1 list The New LifeDante Alighieri · c. 1293-1295On 1 list PurgatorioDante Alighieri · c. 1314-1316On 1 list ParadisoDante Alighieri · c. 1316-1320On 1 list The Thousand and One NightsAnonymous · c. 9th c.On 1 list ShowingsJulian of Norwich · c. 1373-1393On 1 list Le Morte d'ArthurThomas Malory · 1469On 1 list Traditional BalladsAnonymous · c. 1300-1700On 1 list The Interior CastleTeresa of Ávila · 1577On 1 list Edward the SecondChristopher Marlowe · c. 1592On 1 list The Taming of the ShrewWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1590-1592On 1 list The Comedy of ErrorsWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1594On 1 list EpithalamionEdmund Spenser · 1595On 1 list Romeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1595On 1 list A Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1595-1596On 1 list ProthalamionEdmund Spenser · 1596On 1 list The Merchant of VeniceWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1596-1597On 1 list Much Ado About NothingWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1598-1599On 1 list The Shoemaker's HolidayThomas Dekker · 1599On 1 list Troilus and CressidaWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1602On 1 list Measure for MeasureWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1603-1604On 1 list PhilasterFrancis Beaumont and John Fletcher · c. 1609On 1 list The Winter's TaleWilliam Shakespeare · c. 1610-1611On 1 list The Duchess of MalfiJohn Webster · c. 1613On 1 list A New Way to Pay Old DebtsPhilip Massinger · c. 1625On 1 list PoemsJohn Donne · c. 1590On 1 list Le CidPierre Corneille · 1637On 1 list PolyeuctePierre Corneille · 1642-1643On 1 list Don JuanMolière · 1665On 1 list AndromacheJean Racine · 1667On 1 list BéréniceJean Racine · 1670On 1 list The Imaginary InvalidMolière · 1673On 1 list All for LoveJohn Dryden · 1677On 1 list Selected WorksSor Juana Inés de la Cruz · 1680s-1691On 1 list The Way of the WorldWilliam Congreve · 1700On 1 list Journal to StellaJonathan Swift · 1710On 1 list The Rape of the LockAlexander Pope · 1712On 1 list Persian LettersMontesquieu · 1721On 1 list Joseph AndrewsHenry Fielding · 1742On 1 list Tom JonesHenry Fielding · 1749On 1 list Tristram ShandyLaurence Sterne · 1759-1767On 1 list London JournalJames Boswell · 1762On 1 list Minna von BarnhelmGotthold Ephraim Lessing · 1767On 1 list A Sentimental Journey Through France and ItalyLaurence Sterne · 1768On 1 list She Stoops to ConquerOliver Goldsmith · 1773On 1 list The School for ScandalRichard Brinsley Sheridan · 1777On 1 list Poems and SongsRobert Burns · 1786-1796On 1 list EgmontJohann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1788On 1 list Hermann and DorotheaJohann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1797On 1 list Poetry and TruthJohann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1811-1833On 1 list Don JuanLord Byron · 1819-1824On 1 list On LoveStendhal · 1822On 1 list The BetrothedAlessandro Manzoni · 1827On 1 list The Red and the BlackStendhal · 1830On 1 list Eugénie GrandetHonoré de Balzac · 1833On 1 list Père GoriotHonoré de Balzac · 1835On 1 list TalesHans Christian Andersen · 1835-1872On 1 list The Pickwick PapersCharles Dickens · 1836-1837On 1 list The Charterhouse of ParmaStendhal · 1839On 1 list The Essence of ChristianityLudwig Feuerbach · 1841On 1 list A Blot in the 'ScutcheonRobert Browning · 1843On 1 list PoemsRobert Browning · 1842-1864On 1 list PoemsEdgar Allan Poe · 1827-1849On 1 list Cousin BetteHonoré de Balzac · 1846On 1 list EvangelineHenry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1847On 1 list David CopperfieldCharles Dickens · 1849-1850On 1 list PoemsAlfred, Lord Tennyson · 1830-1889On 1 list The Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne · 1850On 1 list Leaves of GrassWalt Whitman · 1855On 1 list Adam BedeGeorge Eliot · 1859On 1 list Tristan and IsoldeRichard Wagner · 1857On 1 list PoemsMatthew Arnold · 1849-1867On 1 list The IdiotFyodor Dostoevsky · 1869On 1 list AutobiographyJohn Stuart Mill · 1873On 1 list The AmericanHenry James · 1877On 1 list Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy · 1875-1878On 1 list The Master BuilderHenrik Ibsen · 1892On 1 list Uncle VanyaAnton Chekhov · 1897On 1 list Man and SupermanGeorge Bernard Shaw · 1903On 1 list The AmbassadorsHenry James · 1903On 1 list The Beast in the JungleHenry James · 1903On 1 list Death in VeniceThomas Mann · 1912On 1 list In Search of Lost TimeMarcel Proust · 1913-1927On 1 list On NarcissismSigmund Freud · 1914On 1 list The Prussian OfficerD. H. Lawrence · 1914On 1 list Mourning and MelancholiaSigmund Freud · 1917On 1 list My ÁntoniaWilla Cather · 1918On 1 list The Waning of the Middle AgesJohan Huizinga · 1919On 1 list Group Psychology and the Analysis of the EgoSigmund Freud · 1921On 1 list UlyssesJames Joyce · 1922On 1 list A Lost LadyWilla Cather · 1923On 1 list The Magic MountainThomas Mann · 1924On 1 list The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925On 1 list A Rose for EmilyWilliam Faulkner · 1930On 1 list Mourning Becomes ElectraEugene O'Neill · 1931On 1 list The Short Happy Life of Francis MacomberErnest Hemingway · 1936On 1 list Being and NothingnessJean-Paul Sartre · 1943On 1 list No ExitJean-Paul Sartre · 1944On 1 list OmerosDerek Walcott · 1990On 1 list