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Anna Karenina, Book 5 - Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina, Book 5 - 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 Pretty Sister Of José - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Pretty Sister Of José - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Pepita would rather become a witch than a wife. She's seen too many women, including her mother, wither away at their husband's hands. Popular and respected, our gentle, but fiercely independent heroine immediately grows cruel and cold to any suitor...
Clarimonde (or La Morte Amoreuse) - Théophile Gautier
Clarimonde (or La Morte Amoreuse) - Théophile Gautier
- Author: Théophile Gautier
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Romance
This is the story of a priest named Romauld, and his all-consuming love for the beautiful courtesan, Clarimonde. (Summary by Joy Chan)...
The Doctor's Wife - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Doctor's Wife - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
This is one of the Victorian “Sensationist” Mary Elizabeth Braddon's many novels (best known among them: “Lady Audley’s Secret”). It is extremely well written, fluid, humorous and, in places, self-mocking: one of the main characters is a Sensation...
The Vicar of Bullhampton - Anthony Trollope
The Vicar of Bullhampton - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
This little-known but engrossing Trollope novel, published in 1870, centers on a feisty small-town clergyman, his cantankerous neighbor, the miller, and the women in both their lives. A murder, a trial, a feud, a fallen woman, and a complicated...
The Tysons - May Sinclair
The Tysons - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance / Satire
Another frank May Sinclair exploration of fin de siècle English love and sex, marriage and adultery, "The Tysons" is the story of the caddish Nevill Tyson and his beautiful but frivolous young wife Molly. Sinclair uses a different narrative voice...
Old Friends And New Fancies - Sybil G. BRINTON
Old Friends And New Fancies - Sybil G. BRINTON
- Author: Sybil G. BRINTON
- Genre: Romance
Generally acknowledged to be the first sequel to the work of Jane Austen, Old Friends and New Fancies incorporates characters from each of Austen's six major novels into one unified story, as well as those of Brinton's own invention. The novel...
Married Love - Marie STOPES
Married Love - Marie STOPES
- Author: Marie STOPES
- Genre: Erotica / Romance / *Non-fiction
"Married Love" is one of the most famous 'sex education' manuals. First published in 1918, it sold tens of thousands of copies, and was one of the first publications to openly discuss issues such as variations in male and female sexual desire in a...
And So They Were Married - Florence Morse Kingsley
And So They Were Married - Florence Morse Kingsley
- Author: Florence Morse Kingsley
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
This is the story of Elizabeth North, a young woman who becomes engaged and with the aid of a social climbing friend begins to plan her wedding beyond what she can afford. Her friend Evelyn Tripp convinces Elizabeth that she “simply can’t afford”...
The Coast of Bohemia - William Dean Howells
The Coast of Bohemia - William Dean Howells
- Author: William Dean Howells
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
William Dean Howells is at his iconoclastic best in this exploration of bourgeois values, particularly in the clash between respectable society and the dubious bohemian world of Art and Poetry. Cornelia Saunders has everything going for her in her...
A Princess of Mars (Version 3) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Princess of Mars (Version 3) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Romance
John Carter is mysteriously conveyed to Mars, where he discovers two intelligent species continually embroiled in warfare. Although he is a prisoner of four-armed green men, his Civil War experience and Earth-trained musculature give him superior...
The Castle Spectre - Matthew LEWIS
The Castle Spectre - Matthew LEWIS
- Author: Matthew LEWIS
- Genre: Romance
Written by Gothic writer Matthew Lewis, whose novel The Monk is one of the most enduring Gothic works from the eighteenth century, The Castle Spectre is one of Lewis' earliest forays into drama, and a strong indication of his talents as a...
The Woodlanders (version 2) - Thomas Hardy
The Woodlanders (version 2) - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
The Woodlanders is one of Hardy's later novels, although he originally intended it as a successor to Far From The Madding Crowd. It concerns the life and loves of Giles Winterborne, Grace Melbury, Edred Fitzpiers, Felice Charmond and Marty South....
The Shadow of Victory - Myrtle Reed
The Shadow of Victory - Myrtle Reed
- Author: Myrtle Reed
- Genre: Romance
This is another work by the author Myrtle Reed who is also the author of "The Spinster Book" and "Old Rose and Silver" and was a best-seller during 1903. (Summary by sidhu177)...
The Silent Barrier - Louis Tracy
The Silent Barrier - Louis Tracy
- Author: Louis Tracy
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Romance
Charles K. Spencer is a well-to-do young American mining engineer. Drinking his water in a hotel in London one day, he overhears a conversation between two young women, one of whom is to go to Switzerland. He decides to play "fairy godfather" and...
Dead Men's Shoes - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Dead Men's Shoes - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Family Life / Romance
Sybil, a gentlewoman who has to work for a living, finally finds employment as her rich uncle's house keeper. Nothing could be better: she would finally have an easy job in which she is treated well, and inherit her uncle's money after his death....
In Chancery (Forsyte Saga Vol. 2) - John Galsworthy
In Chancery (Forsyte Saga Vol. 2) - John Galsworthy
- Author: John Galsworthy
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance / Sagas
'The Forsyte Saga' is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties. In Chancery is the second book in the saga. Five years have passed since Irene left Soames and the death of Bosinney. Old...
The Lark - E. Nesbit
The Lark - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
"The Lark" has all the charm and freshness which have made Miss Nesbit's former novels so justly popular, and yet the story ts entirely new and original. Two girls, Jane and Lucilla, are led by Jane's guardian to entertain high hopes. The fortune,...
Barbara in Brittany - E. A. GILLIE
Barbara in Brittany - E. A. GILLIE
- Author: E. A. GILLIE
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Barbara, an English girl and the eldest of her family, spends most days helping her widowed mother care for her younger siblings. Then disaster strikes - or so the children believe! Barbara is taken to France to see Paris by her father's formidable...
Eugene Onéguine - Alexander Pushkin
Eugene Onéguine - Alexander Pushkin
- Author: Alexander Pushkin
- Genre: General Fiction / Poetry / Romance
Eugene Oneguine is a classic of Russian literature, and its eponymous protagonist has served as the model for a number of Russian literary heroes (so-called superfluous men). It was published in serial form between 1825 and 1832. The first complete...
Love Among the Artists - George Bernard Shaw
Love Among the Artists - George Bernard Shaw
- Author: George Bernard Shaw
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
Love Among the Artists was published in the United States in 1900 and in England in 1914, but it was written in 1881. In the ambience of chit-chat and frivolity among members of Victorian polite society a youthful Shaw describes his views on the...
A Cathedral Courtship - Kate Douglas Wiggin
A Cathedral Courtship - Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Romance / Published 1900 onward
An romantic comedy. A pretty young American girls tours English Cathedrals, with her very blue-blooded Aunt. Then boy meets girl. Boy chases girl. Boy loses girl. Boy finds girl. Finally, girl catches boy with the help of a mad bull. (Summary by Ric...
A Poor Wise Man - Mary Roberts Rinehart
A Poor Wise Man - Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Genre: Romance / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Mary Roberts Rinehart offers a superb blend of romance and suspense amidst political tensions in this story set in early 20th Century America. The characters are compelling and representative of the various socioeconomic classes. The reader follows...
Marriage, volume 1 - Susan Edmonstoune FERRIER
Marriage, volume 1 - Susan Edmonstoune FERRIER
- Author: Susan Edmonstoune FERRIER
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
"Love!--A word by superstition thought a God; by use turned to an humour; by self-will made a flattering madness." - Alexander and Campaspe. Lady Juliana, the indulged and coddled seventeen ("And a half, papa") year old daughter of the Earl of...
Clover - Susan Coolidge
Clover - Susan Coolidge
- Author: Susan Coolidge
- Genre: Romance / General
Clover is the fourth book in the popular What Katy Did series. After Katy's wedding, the focus shifts to her little sister Clover. Their brother Phil encounters serious illness in the winter, and Dr. Carr sends him with Clover to the mountains of...
John Dene of Toronto; a Comedy of Whitehall - Herbert George Jenkins
John Dene of Toronto; a Comedy of Whitehall - Herbert George Jenkins
- Author: Herbert George Jenkins
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance
John Dene comes to England with a great invention, and the intention of gingering-up the Admiralty. His directness and unconventional methods bewilder and embarrass the officials at Whitehall, where, according to him, most of the jobs are held by...
Love Insurance - Earl Derr Biggers
Love Insurance - Earl Derr Biggers
- Author: Earl Derr Biggers
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
A young man came to Lloyds of London. He knew they took out policies on unusual risks... And what he wanted was love insurance. What follows is a comic novel, by the creator of the Chinese detective - Charlie Chan! - Summary by Linda Andrus...
The Home and the World - Rabindranath Tagore
The Home and the World - Rabindranath Tagore
- Author: Rabindranath Tagore
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance / *Non-fiction
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo religionist, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th...
Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood - George MacDonald
Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Romance / Christian Fiction
This delightful story begins in a little town called Marshmallows, where a young man, the new vicar, Harry Walton, has just arrived. As he begins his work Harry realizes that everything is not quite 'right' in his little parish and it all seems to...
Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion - Lyndon ORR
Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion - Lyndon ORR
- Author: Lyndon ORR
- Genre: Romance / *Non-fiction / History
"Famous Affinities of History" is a book of passion-filled accounts of the most famous love affairs of history. The stories of Cleopatra, Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, Jonathan Swift, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Byron, George...
The Duke of Chimney Butte - George W. OGDEN
The Duke of Chimney Butte - George W. OGDEN
- Author: George W. OGDEN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance / Westerns
An exciting tale of gun play, brave deeds and romance as Jerry Lambert, the "Duke" tries to protect the ranch of the lovely and charming Vesta Philbrook from thieving neighbors and other evil doers. (Summary by Mike Vendetti)...
Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Genre: Romance
"If anybody cares to read a simple tale told simply" ... thus opens Lorna Doone, one of the best love stories ever written. The novel has inspired at least ten movies and mini-series. "John (in West Country dialect this is pronounced Jan) Ridd is...
French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France - Marie de FRANCE
French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France - Marie de FRANCE
- Author: Marie de FRANCE
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Romance
The tales included in this little book of translations are derived mainly from the "Lays" of Marie de France. I do not profess them to be a complete collection of her stories in verse. The ascription varies. Poems which were included in her work but...
North and South (version 3) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
North and South (version 3) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
North and South is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the North of England. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil rural south, Margaret Hale settles with her parents in Milton where she witnesses the brutal world wrought by the...
Her Dark Inheritance - Mrs. E. Burke COLLINS
Her Dark Inheritance - Mrs. E. Burke COLLINS
- Author: Mrs. E. Burke COLLINS
- Genre: Romance
A story of obsessive love and desperation that hid many secrets. This cliffhanger will keep you guessing until the very end. Summary by Sharon Kilmer...
The Sea-Witch - Maturin Murray BALLOU
The Sea-Witch - Maturin Murray BALLOU
- Author: Maturin Murray BALLOU
- Genre: General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Romance
Maturin Murray Ballou was the author of dozens of books, chiefly centered around his extensive sea travel. He was deputy navy-agent in the Boston Custom House and circumnavigated in 1882, collecting material for several travel accounts and various...
The Upas Tree, A Christmas Story for all the Year - Florence Louisa BARCLAY
The Upas Tree, A Christmas Story for all the Year - Florence Louisa BARCLAY
- Author: Florence Louisa BARCLAY
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Ronald West has a brilliant idea for his next novel, but to do it right, he wants to spend the next six months tramping around central Africa to experience the setting first hand. His wife Helen fully supports his trip, but for the first time in...
The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 2 - William Harrison Ainsworth
The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 2 - William Harrison Ainsworth
- Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
- Genre: Romance
The second volume of 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...
A Texas Matchmaker - Andy ADAMS
A Texas Matchmaker - Andy ADAMS
- Author: Andy ADAMS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance / Westerns
As a boy Andy Adams helped with the cattle and horses on the family farm. During the early 1880s he went to Texas, where he stayed for 10 years, spending much of that time driving cattle on the western trails.A Texas Matchmaker is a narrative that...
The Amethyst Box - Anna Katharine Green
The Amethyst Box - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Romance
On the evening before his marriage, Sinclair loses a precious curiosity from his collection: an amethyst box, containing a tiny flask of deadly poison. He suspects that this poison is in the possession of either his betrothed or her cousin, the girl...
