Love Story (1970)

by Erich Segal

Series: Oliver Barrett (1)

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satyridae | Apr 5, 2013 |

quick read. good story. (

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mawls | Apr 4, 2013 |

Oddly enough, I don't think I saw the movie; although I did attend a gathering for college editors where I got to meet Ali mcGraw, Ryan O'Neal and Ray Milland. I may have read an abridged version -- I was visiting a roommate and her mother had a copy of the Ladies' Home Journal or some similar magazine in which the story appeared. What a weeper! I'm not sure why this rather formulaic romance (rich Harvard guy meets not so rich beautiful girl, they fall in love, she dies) would be on a must-read list except that so many people did read it and see the movie and it spawned the false motto, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." (

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auntieknickers | Apr 3, 2013 |

My favorite love story. (

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bysunil | Nov 19, 2012 |

I read this long ago after seeing the film. I remember my heart breaking for these two young lovers. (

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Love Story and Oliver's Story by Erich Segal

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Love Story [adapted - Oxford Bookworms] by Rosemary Border

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Oliver Barrett (1)

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Love Story

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Love story

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Radcliffe University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 1970)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults (1970)

Guardian 1000 (Love)

Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay (1970)

100 Essential New England Books (Boston Globe, #67)

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For Sylvia Herscher and John Flaxman
...namque...solebatis
Meas ess aliquid putare nugas.

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What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?

Quotations

"Love means never having to say that you're sorry" Jenny

"What the hell makes you so smart?" I asked. "I wouldn't go for coffee with you, " she answered. "Listen -- I wouldn't ask you." "That, "she replied "is what makes you stupid."

"He had then warned his daughter not to violate the Eleventh Commandment.
"Which one is that?" I asked her.
"Do not bullshit thy father," she said."

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Oliver Barrett IV, a wealthy jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law . . . Jenny Cavilleri, a sharp-tongued, working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe . . .

Opposites in nearly every way, Oliver and Jenny are kindred spirits from vastly different worlds. Falling deeply and powerfully, their attraction to one another defies everything they have ever believed—as they share a passion far greater than anything they dreamed possible . . . and explore the wonder of a love that must end too soon.

One of the most adored novels of our time, this is the book that defined a generation—a story of uncompromising devotion, of life as it really is . . . and love that changes everything.

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The story of the relationship between Harvard law student Oliver Barrett IV and Radcliffe music student Jenny Cavilleri. Explores how these apparent opposites fall in love and how their relationship tragically ends.

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