Adultery in literature
The following works of literature have adultery and its consequences as one of their major themes. (M) and (F) stand for adulterer and adulteress respectively.
- Simon Gray: Japes (F)
- Arthur Miller: Broken Glass (F)
- Harold Pinter: The Homecoming (F)
- Hugh Whitemore: Disposing of the Body (M,F)
- Tennessee Williams: Baby Doll (F)
- Kingsley Amis: That Uncertain Feeling (M,F)
- Malcolm Bradbury: The History Man (M,F)
- James M. Cain: The Postman Always Rings Twice (F)
- Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (M,F)
- Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary (F)
- Josephine Hart: Damage (M)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter (F)
- Francis Iles: Malice Aforethought (M)
- John Irving: The World According to Garp (M,F)
- D. H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's Lover (F)
- David Lodge: Thinks ... (M)
- William Somerset Maugham: Liza of Lambeth (M)
- Iris Murdoch: A Severed Head (M,F)
- Boris Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago (M)
- Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina (F)
- Scott Turow: Presumed Innocent (M)
- Fay Weldon: The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (M)
- Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome (M)
(There are lots of famous examples still missing here. Please add to this list.)