In The Passionate Friends (1913), H. G. Wells traces the long, complicated bond between Stephen Stratton and Lady Mary Christian — a love that survives her marriage to another man, years of separation, and the pressures of Edwardian convention. Written as a letter to his son, the novel meditates on what it means to love freely in a world governed by rules.
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