7 poignant books about real stories of great love

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Novels about great and bright feelings have not lost their popularity for many decades. But those books in which the real love stories of great people were described are of much greater interest. Life tested them for strength, but feelings turned out to be stronger than distances, diseases, boundaries and even death. Our today's review features poignant and romantic books about non-fictional love.

Gala and Salvador Dali. Love on the Canvas of Time ", Sophia Benois

Probably, there was no couple more famous and bright than Elena Dyakonova and Salvador Dali. She was 10 years older than the artist, and by the time he met Gala he was simply on the verge of insanity. Their relationship could not be called calm, cloudless and even romantic. It was an all-consuming passion, loud quarrels, stormy reconciliation. Everything in this story is amazing, including a completely new look at feelings.

“How to steal the king? The Wallis Simpson Story ", Arina Polyakova

At one time, the renunciation of the throne of King Edward VIII of Great Britain made a lot of noise all over the world. But did that mean anything if his happiness with Wallis Simpson lasted 35 years ?! The reader will be able to find out many details of the acquaintance and the emergence of feelings between Edward and Wallis Simpson, about the sacrifices made for the sake of love, and how together they were able to pass through the veil of gossip and false rumors.

“Has anyone seen my girl? 100 letters to Seryozha ", Karina Dobrotvorskaya

The collection of letters of the famous journalist Karina Dobrotvorskaya to her beloved, talented screenwriter and film critic Sergei Dobrotvorsky, can hardly leave anyone indifferent. They were considered the brightest couple in bohemian St. Petersburg of the late 1990s, and they parted to never meet again. Each of them tried to escape from this painful love. She is in another city, and he is in a world from which there is no return. The fact is that Sergei Dobrotvorsky died just a few months after parting. Karina began to write letters to her late ex-husband, trying to understand herself.

"Letters to Faith", Vladimir Nabokov

The marriage of Vera and Vladimir Nabokov lasted 52 years. The wife of the writer helped and supported her husband under any circumstances. She herself took on the affairs that Vladimir Nabokov did not like: replies to letters and telephone conversations. He also wrote heartfelt letters to his beloved wife and invariably thanked for the happiness of being with her.

“Diana and Charles. A lonely princess loves a prince … ", Sophia Benoit

It seems that many volumes have already been written about this love story of the queen of human hearts for her prince. And yet she is worthy of attention, because Diana Spencer is not much different from thousands of other representatives of the fair sex, who dream of a fabulous life, if not in a palace, then in a luxurious mansion, and in return receive a golden cage and imitation of happiness. Sophia Benoit again and again tries to find the answer to the question of who is really responsible for the death of Lady Dee.

Grace Kelly. Princess of Monaco ", E. Mishanenkova

From the outside, this story seemed like a real fairy tale about Cinderella who met her prince. Prince Rainier met Grace Kelly in Cannes, fell in love with her at first sight and made her a real princess. She, for the sake of her feelings, almost without regret said goodbye to the career of an actress. She desperately yearned for the time she went to the set, but she loved her husband too much to embarrass him while continuing to act in films.

"Vladimir Vysotsky. Bard and Frenchwoman ", Fedor Razzakov

The love story of a Soviet bard and a French actress was not as beautiful and romantic as was commonly believed. In fact, Vladimir Vysotsky and Marina Vladi, who entered into a legal marriage, were never able to create a real family. They were separated by borders and thousands of kilometers, and were connected by phone calls and not too frequent meetings. And yet they were with each other, loved, suffered and believed for 12 years.

There are other love books that have become true classics. Stories about desperate passion and pure platonic relationships, books with a happy ending in the style of "and they lived happily ever after", tragic stories in which love brings only sorrows, hardships and trials to the heroes. Eternal stories about the most important feeling between a man and a woman. Many of the works presented in the selection were filmed and became films "of all time".