As a revenge story fan, I like Groucho Marx famouse aforizm:
When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep
About the history of the revenge stories: The ancestor of all revenge stories the "Poor Man Of Nippur", which was found 3500 years ago in Akkadian, but the archeologists think it is older story and origins from Sumerian. The story is without marriage plot.
The marriage and fidelity is in a revenge story plot, that is the Beaumarchais/ Da Ponte/ Mozart "Marriage of Figaro" Opera (before Comedia).
And I almost forgot the top of all revenge stories from Alexandre Dumas "Le Comte de Monte Cristo"....
The 20 best revenge stories on LIT are the nexts according to me:
1. Vulcez "How Are You?"
2. FrancisMacomber "The Six O'clock News Slot"
3. Longhorn_07 "Fool Me Once"
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