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Oh, also, try "Swann in Love" by Proust.

Hey there--

Try "Lolita" by Nabokov. Beautifully written, doomed, one-sided love. Can't get much more unrequited than this.

"Notre Dame de Paris" has the theme of unrequited love running all...

I first encountered this poem in a volume entitled "The World's Worst Poems", or something to that effect. It celebrates a prodigious wheel of cheese the author encountered once at a world's fair. I...

"You want a kiss? But my dear, you're only twelve!"

--Humbert Humbert, Lolita.

"What White Whale?"

--Ahab, in Moby-Dick.

I loved Notre Dame de Paris myself; so far, I dislike the film versions of it I've seen. The Disney version is one I won't even watch, though, as the notion of their changing Frollo from a priest to...

Lolita is a great, great book, and one of my favorites. Nabokov writes beautifully in English--as well or better than many native-born writers. In fact, he wrote Lolita as a sort of "love song" to...

Hey All,

I'm doing research on the theme of unrequited love in literature and film.

Please feel free to give me your suggestions on books and films that deal with unrequited love as a primary...

I loved Notre Dame de Paris and enjoyed its dark, rather fatalistic themes concerning romantic love. It explores the mad, destructive, blind, selfish and selfless aspects of love with a refreshing...

Hi all--glad to be here. I'm looking forward to talking to all of you about literature and art!

-2AddersFanged