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Sonnets from the Portuguese - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Genre: Poetry / Romance
Sonnets from the Portuguese, written ca. 1845–1846 and first published in 1850, is a collection of forty-four love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The poems largely chronicle the period leading up to her 1846 marriage to Robert...
Jerry - Jean Webster
Jerry - Jean Webster
- Author: Jean Webster
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Jerry is the humorous story of a young man's attempt to win his lady. Jerry is waiting for his friends at a hotel in Italy, and is bored and lonely. When he hears that a beautiful American lady, Constance Wilder, is staying nearby, he tries to visit...
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 4 - Eliza Haywood
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 4 - Eliza Haywood
- Author: Eliza Haywood
- Genre: Family Life / Romance / Sagas
Betsy Thoughtless is about an intelligent and strong-willed woman who marries under pressure from the society in which she lives. Betsy learns that sometimes giving way to the role of women within a marriage can at times be fulfilling. This is the...
The Landleaguers - Anthony Trollope
The Landleaguers - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Near Galway, young Florian Jones has just converted to Catholicism when he witnesses the deliberate destruction of his English father’s land by the Catholic Landleaguers. The Irish Land War has commenced, with the boycotting of wealthy landowners...
The Daredevil - Maria Thompson Daviess
The Daredevil - Maria Thompson Daviess
- Author: Maria Thompson Daviess
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
Roberta, daughter of an American soldier and a French marquise, is returning to the childhood home of her father after his death in the Great War. Upon reaching New York she realizes that her Uncle, a woman-hater, has confused the genders of her and...
The Inevitable - Louis COUPERUS
The Inevitable - Louis COUPERUS
- Author: Louis COUPERUS
- Genre: Romance
23 year old Cornélie de Retz is a Dutch Divorcee who goes to Italy to start a new life and most part of the novel is filled with the details of romantic conversations, emotions and finally the Inevitable follows. Find out what the Inevitable is and...
The Glimpses of the Moon - Edith Wharton
The Glimpses of the Moon - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: Romance
"The Glimpses of the Moon" (1922) is about Nick and Susy Lansing, both of whom live a decadent life in Europe by sponging off wealthy friends. They marry out of convenience and have an "open" relationship, but are unprepared for where their feelings...
The Chartreuse of Parma (The Charterhouse of Parma) - STENDHAL
The Chartreuse of Parma (The Charterhouse of Parma) - STENDHAL
- Author: STENDHAL
- Genre: Romance / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
This book is more often called The Charterhouse of Parma in English, because "Charterhouse" is the English word for a Carthusian monastery, whereas "Chartreuse" is the French word. The book tells the life of a Lombard nobleman, born soon after the...
Pride and Prejudice (version 4) - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice (version 4) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's classic comic romance, in which the five Bennett sisters try to find that most elusive creature: a single man in possession of a large fortune. Sparks fly when sweet, pretty Jane meets their new neighbor, Mr....
A Daughter of the Land - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
A Daughter of the Land - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Author: Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Genre: Romance
Independent Kate Bates resents the fact that, as the youngest of a large family, she is expected to stay at home and help her parents while her brothers and sisters are free to pursue their desires. When she defies her family and leaves home, she...
The Mutiny of the Elsinore - Jack London
The Mutiny of the Elsinore - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Romance
This is the story of a voyage of a sailing ship from Baltimore to Seattle, east-to-west around Cape Horn in the winter. It is set in 1913 and the glory days of “wooden ships and iron men” are long over. The Elsinore is a four-masted iron sailing...
The Maker of Opportunities - George Gibbs
The Maker of Opportunities - George Gibbs
- Author: George Gibbs
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
When you're tired only because you're bored; and you're bored only because it seems like there's really nothing worth doing; and you're so, so wealthy that one would think opportunity should be knocking at your door every day... you sometimes just...
The Daughter of the Commandant - Alexander Pushkin
The Daughter of the Commandant - Alexander Pushkin
- Author: Alexander Pushkin
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
"The Daughter of the Commandant" (better known as "The Captain's Daughter") is a historical novel by the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin, and is considered to be his finest prose work. The novel is a romanticized account of Pugachev's Rebellion in...
The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid - Thomas Hardy
The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
A milkmaid, Margery, encounters a mysterious foreigner and perhaps prevents him from committing suicide. In gratitude, the man offers her any reward she can name. She tells him she wants to go to a ball. He takes her, admittedly a bit reluctantly,...
Bessie's Fortune - Mary Jane HOLMES
Bessie's Fortune - Mary Jane HOLMES
- Author: Mary Jane HOLMES
- Genre: Romance
The coverup of a murder leads to the search for the dead man's heiress decades later in this delightful 3 part novel by Mary Jane Holmes. Her characters are as always very interesting and realistic. Poor little Bessie is raised in poverty because...
Indiana - George SAND
Indiana - George SAND
- Author: George SAND
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
This is George Sand's first novel. Her real name was Amantine (or Amandine) Lucile Dupin, and she later became baroness Dudevant. As an aristocratic woman living in 19th century France, she chose her first novel to be, above all, a realistic work....
Northanger Abbey (version 3 Dramatic Reading) - Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey (version 3 Dramatic Reading) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Romance
Northanger Abbey follows seventeen-year-old Gothic novel aficionado Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath. It is Catherine's first visit there. She meets new friends, such as Isabella Thorpe, and goes to balls....
People Like That - Kate Langley BOSHER
People Like That - Kate Langley BOSHER
- Author: Kate Langley BOSHER
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
A single woman from a family that is well-off, buys a house at a place that is looked down upon and disapproved by her family and friends alike. Her reason - she wants to live the life of and know people like that. (This book's got one of the cutest...
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 02 - Various
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 02 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the second volume, 44 short stories and poems have been gathered from 31 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)) The Wit and Humor od America series...
Tristan and Iseult - Joseph BÉDIER
Tristan and Iseult - Joseph BÉDIER
- Author: Joseph BÉDIER
- Genre: Romance
This is the Arthurian legend of Tristan and Iseult. It is a tale of love, honour, intrigue, betrayal and jealousy, ending ultimately in tragedy. This story predates that of Lancelot and Guinevere, and is one of the most influential romances of the...
Monsieur Beaucaire - Booth Tarkington
Monsieur Beaucaire - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
A madcap Frenchman posing as an ambassador's barber blackmails a dishonest duke to introduce him as a nobleman to a wealthy belle of Bath. Since the duke himself hopes to mend his fortunes by wedding this very woman, he attempts to murder Beaucaire,...
The Riddle Ring - Justin McCarthy
The Riddle Ring - Justin McCarthy
- Author: Justin McCarthy
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance / Published 1800 -1900
This romantic mystery - or mysterious romance - tells the tale of jilted lover, Jim Conrad, who discovers an unusual gold ring while on a visit to Paris. What is the story of the ring? Why is Clelia Vine so sad? Who is the nameless 'chief'? And how...
Dawn of the Morning - Grace Livingston Hill
Dawn of the Morning - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance / Published 1900 onward
Fresh from school, mistreated and neglected by her father and stepmother, sixteen-year-old Dawn consents to marry a friend of her father's whom she has only met, but the wedding does not go as planned. Scared and confused, she runs away after the...
Anna Karenina, Book 3 - Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina, Book 3 - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage to follow her heart and must endure the hypocrisies of society....
The Tempest - John Dryden
The Tempest - John Dryden
- Author: John Dryden
- Genre: Comedy / Romance
John Dryden and William D'Avenant's Restoration adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest preserves the main plot and characters of the original. Prospero, the former Duke of Milan, lives on an isolated island with his daughter Miranda, and plans to...
The People of the Mist - H. Rider Haggard
The People of the Mist - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
Penniless Leonard Outram attempts to redress the undeserved loss of his family estates and fiancee by seeking his fortune in Africa. In the course of his adventures he and his Zulu companion Otter save a young Portuguese woman, Juanna Rodd, together...
I've Come to Stay: A Love Comedy of Bohemia - Mary Heaton VORSE
I've Come to Stay: A Love Comedy of Bohemia - Mary Heaton VORSE
- Author: Mary Heaton VORSE
- Genre: Romance
An iconoclast in many fields herself, Mary Heaton Vorse was fascinated with Bohemia, the colorful unboundaried land of poets and artists and philosophers, a place whose denizens lived by their own rules without regard for the conventions of...
Little Eve Edgarton - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Little Eve Edgarton - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Eve Edgarton is not who she seems she is. A short encounter with Mr. Barton show that first impressions are not always right or indicative of one's seemingly obvious preference or one's proclivity. (Summary by Kehinde)...
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907-1908 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907-1908 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Romance
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fame in her lifetime, putting Prince Edward Island and Canada on the world literary map. Best known for her...
The Manxman - Hall CAINE
The Manxman - Hall CAINE
- Author: Hall CAINE
- Genre: Romance
Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine, CH, KBE (14 May 1853 – 31 August 1931), usually known as Hall Caine, was a British author. He is best known as a novelist and playright of the late Victorian and the Edwardian eras. In his time he was exceedingly popular...
O Pioneers! (version 2) - Willa Sibert Cather
O Pioneers! (version 2) - Willa Sibert Cather
- Author: Willa Sibert Cather
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska, at the turn of the 20th century. The main character, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the family farmland when...
The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 1 - William Harrison Ainsworth
The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 1 - William Harrison Ainsworth
- Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
A romance with the backdrop of the notorious Star Chamber of the English legal system. The Chamber began as purely administrative, but gradually took on more of a judicial role, enforcing the monarch's will when the courts could or would not do so....
Bonne-Marie, a Tale of Normandy and Paris - Henry Gréville
Bonne-Marie, a Tale of Normandy and Paris - Henry Gréville
- Author: Henry Gréville
- Genre: Romance
Bonne-Marie, Henry Gréville’s last work, will no doubt create a sensation, such is its freshness, beauty, and delicacy. It is the story of a young girl, the daughter of a smuggler in Normandy, on the coast of France. Having been educated in a...
A Room with a View (version 2) - E. M. Forster
A Room with a View (version 2) - E. M. Forster
- Author: E. M. Forster
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The 1908 novel A Room With a View is the story of Lucy Honeychurch, a young English girl traveling to Italy for the first time. While staying in Florence, Lucy meets the unconventional George Emerson, with whom she shares a single passionate kiss,...
The Flirt - Booth Tarkington
The Flirt - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
Laura and Cora Madison and their younger brother Hedrick live with their parents in a Midwestern American town that is fairly bursting with Cora’s discarded and would-be beaus. Her flirtatiousness annoys the tempestuous Hedrick but not the reserved...
Miss or Mrs.? - Wilkie Collins
Miss or Mrs.? - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: Romance
Natalie Graybrooke is in love with her cousin Launcelot Linzie, but engaged to Mr. Turlington, an older man who covets her fortune and whom she detests. Turlington is the executor of Natalie's father's estate. When Natalie secretly marries her...
Les Misérables Vol. 3 - Victor HUGO
Les Misérables Vol. 3 - Victor HUGO
- Author: Victor HUGO
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
This is book 3 of 5. -- An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the way, the ex-convict joins a revolution, adopts a daughter, and beats people up. Hooray. (Summary by...
The Dude Wrangler - Caroline LOCKHART
The Dude Wrangler - Caroline LOCKHART
- Author: Caroline LOCKHART
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Spoiled, handsome, 24 year old Easterner meets pretty, no-nonsense gal from Wyoming, is instantly smitten and does a sea-change to try and impress her in this genial romantic comedy. - Summary by BellonaTimes...
Scaramouche - Rafael Sabatini
Scaramouche - Rafael Sabatini
- Author: Rafael Sabatini
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
Scaramouche is a romantic adventure and tells the story of a young aristocrat during the French Revolution. His successive endeavors as a lawyer, politician, actor, lover, and buffoon lead his enemies to call him "Scaramouche" (also called...
The Prime Minister - Anthony Trollope
The Prime Minister - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
The Prime Minister is the fifth in Trollope's series of six Palliser novels. With Phineas' difficulties resolved, Trollope introduces new characters. A respectable young girl forsakes the man her family had always intended her to marry when she...