Sunday, July 23, 2006

My favorite novels about cheating lovers

OpinionJournal - Five Best :: High Infidelity

1. "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert (1857).
2. "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy (1878).
3. "The Golden Bowl" by Henry James (Scribner's, 1904).
4. "The Good Soldier" by Ford Madox Ford (The Bodley Head, 1915).
5. "Appointment in Samarra" by John O'Hara (Harcourt, Brace, 1934).

Mr. Begley's novels include "Wartime Lies" (1991) and "Shipwreck" (2003). His latest, "Matters of Honor," will be published by Knopf in January.

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