The novel "Rebecca" (1938), a Gothic classic, follows a nameless young woman, the poor companion of a rich American woman, who falls in love with the charming widower Maxim de Winter, owner of the luxurious Manderley estate in Cornwall, in Monte Carlo.
Homo Faber by Max Friš is one of the most important and most read books of the 20th century: engineer Valter Faber believes in his rational view of the world, which is permanently shattered by a 'love story'.