Iconic Literary Couples
Iconic Literary Couples is a structured books dataset with 25 entries. Its fields include Couple, Book, Author. Community voting appears as a separate signal beside eligible rows and does not replace the source values.
Every row is shown below and is also available as CSV, JSON, or Excel.
Dataset details
- Table scope
- All 25 rows
- Fields
- 5 columns
- Source
- Wikipedia / literary criticism
- Data updated
- Apr 9, 2026
Included fields: Couple, Book, Author, Year, Ending.
The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.
Preview observations
- Year span
- 1210 to 2018
- Across 21 preview rows
- Ending groups
- 5 distinct values
- Across 25 preview rows
Useful for
- Comparing Couple, Book, and Author across books entries
- Building reference tables, charts, or analyses from 25 downloadable records
Couple↕ | Book↕ | Author↕ | Year↕ | Ending↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 1813 | Happy |
| Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw | Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte | 1847 | Tragic |
| Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | 1847 | Happy |
| Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1925 | Tragic |
| Romeo and Juliet | Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare | 1597 | Tragic |
| Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | 1877 | Tragic |
| Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler | Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | 1936 | Bittersweet |
| Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza | Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 1985 | Happy |
| Tristan and Isolde | Tristan and Isolde | Gottfried von Strassburg | 1210 | Tragic |
| Odysseus and Penelope | The Odyssey | Homer | -750 | Happy |
| Paris and Helen | The Iliad | Homer | -750 | Tragic |
| Lancelot and Guinevere | Le Morte d'Arthur | Thomas Malory | 1485 | Tragic |
| Noah and Allie | The Notebook | Nicholas Sparks | 1996 | Bittersweet |
| Hazel Grace and Augustus | The Fault in Our Stars | John Green | 2012 | Tragic |
| Edward and Bella | Twilight | Stephenie Meyer | 2005 | Happy |
| Henry DeTamble and Clare Abshire | The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | 2003 | Bittersweet |
| Connell and Marianne | Normal People | Sally Rooney | 2018 | Open |
| Oliver and Elio | Call Me by Your Name | Andre Aciman | 2007 | Bittersweet |
| Ennis and Jack | Brokeback Mountain | Annie Proulx | 1997 | Tragic |
| Westley and Buttercup | The Princess Bride | William Goldman | 1973 | Happy |
| Dante and Beatrice | The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri | 1320 | Spiritual |
| Orpheus and Eurydice | Metamorphoses | Ovid | 8 | Tragic |
| Pyramus and Thisbe | Metamorphoses | Ovid | 8 | Tragic |
| Jamie and Claire | Outlander | Diana Gabaldon | 1991 | Happy |
| Aragorn and Arwen | The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1955 | Bittersweet |
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