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The Way of an Eagle - Ethel M. Dell
The Way of an Eagle - Ethel M. Dell
- Author: Ethel M. Dell
- Genre: Romance
Muriel Roscoe has come to India to live with her father, a general. When the fort where they are staying comes under attack, General Roscoe charges the dauntless, wisecracking soldier Nick Ratcliffe with the responsibility for getting Muriel away in...
The Bartlett Mystery - Louis Tracy
The Bartlett Mystery - Louis Tracy
- Author: Louis Tracy
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance
This is a fast-paced mystery, set in New York City, has two or three really interesting ("round") characters, a solid plot, no cheap plot-twists, two full-fledged sub/urban battles and some real surprises. Winifred Bartlett, a beautiful and poor...
Marietta: A Maid of Venice - Francis Marion Crawford
Marietta: A Maid of Venice - Francis Marion Crawford
- Author: Francis Marion Crawford
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
This swash-buckling, romantic story of Zorzi Ballarin and Angelo Beroviero, master glass-blowers of Murano, Italy in the 1500's, is not entirely fiction. Many of the works of these artizans are preserved in the Museum of Murano, including their...
The Road To Mandalay - Bithia Mary Croker
The Road To Mandalay - Bithia Mary Croker
- Author: Bithia Mary Croker
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Travel Fiction / Romance
Sophy Leigh and Douglas Shafto come to Burma on the same ship in 1912. They come for different reasons. Through them, we learn about British India in the time between 1912 and 1914, just before WWI. Academics view Bithia Mary Croker as one of the...
Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
- Author: Gustave Flaubert
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Sentimental Education (French: L'Éducation sentimentale, 1869) is a novel by Gustave Flaubert, that is considered one of the most influential novels of the 19th century. The story focuses on the romantic life of a young man at the time of the French...
Weird Tales, Volume 1 - E. T. A. Hoffmann
Weird Tales, Volume 1 - E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance / Fantasy Fiction
These stories form the first volume of the renowned Tales of Hoffman. They are fantasies with hints of the supernatural—quintessential Romanticism. Writers of the Romantic period typically seek to lift the spirit to awe, wonder, love, horror, or...
Cousin Maude - Mary Jane HOLMES
Cousin Maude - Mary Jane HOLMES
- Author: Mary Jane HOLMES
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
When Matilda's husband James dies, she marries rich Dr. Kennedy thinking he will provide a good home for her daughter Maude. However, the doctor is a miser and assumes that Matty will be his housekeeper. They have a little boy who is crippled and...
St. George and St. Michael, Volume 3 - George MacDonald
St. George and St. Michael, Volume 3 - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance / Published 1800 -1900
’St. George and St. Michael’ is a little-known historical romance telling the story of a young couple who find themselves on opposing sides during the tumultuous years of the English Civil Wars. Volume 3 completes the series. Tensions are rising...
The Mistress of Shenstone - Florence Louisa BARCLAY
The Mistress of Shenstone - Florence Louisa BARCLAY
- Author: Florence Louisa BARCLAY
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
For those of you who enjoyed The Rosary by Florence Barclay, this one will come in as a close second. When Lady Myra Ingleby learns by telegram that her husband has been killed in the war, the sadness if not true grief that assails her along with...
The Hundredth Chance - Ethel M. Dell
The Hundredth Chance - Ethel M. Dell
- Author: Ethel M. Dell
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
In this prequel to "Charles Rex'' by Ethel M. Dell you will meet the aristocratic blackguard Lord Saltash for whom our distressed heroine Maude Brian still holds deep feelings. Dedicated to the care of her younger crippled brother whom she adores,...
Andrew the Glad (Dramatic Reading) - Maria Thompson Daviess
Andrew the Glad (Dramatic Reading) - Maria Thompson Daviess
- Author: Maria Thompson Daviess
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Romance
"There are some women who will brew mystery from the decoction of even a very simple life. Matilda is one of them, remarked the major to himself as he filled his pipe and settled himself before his high-piled, violet-flamed logs..." A sweet,...
Alias Miss Sherlock - Arthur Lewis Tubbs
Alias Miss Sherlock - Arthur Lewis Tubbs
- Author: Arthur Lewis Tubbs
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Plays / Romance
Dick Brewster is implicated in a murder and comes to his aunt's farm to hide. His Aunt Sarah stands by him in his need and they all move to the city in the effort to clear his name. She investigates on her own account and.... - Summary by The Author...
The House of Mystery - Richard Marsh
The House of Mystery - Richard Marsh
- Author: Richard Marsh
- Genre: Gothic Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance
The House of Mystery is based upon the complicated plot involving two women who look exactly alike, one rich and one poor, and so mistaken identities bring about comic and tragic madness. (Summary by Jim Locke)...
Digger Smith - C. J. Dennis
Digger Smith - C. J. Dennis
- Author: C. J. Dennis
- Genre: Romance / War & Military Fiction / Narratives
“Digger Smith” is a series of narrative poems about an Australian soldier coming home in the closing months of the Great War minus a leg and with “ANZAC eyes” ... what a later war would call “The Thousand Yard Stare”. Despite his post-traumatic...
Mary Anerley - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Mary Anerley - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Genre: Romance
It is 1801, in the wild and rugged country that is northern England. A local Squire has died but his manor, Scargate Hall, is left to two sisters, Philippa and Eliza, while the squire's son is disinherited. The family lawyer has discovered a problem...
The Search - Grace Livingston Hill
The Search - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Family Life / Romance / War & Military Fiction
“On the day the drafted men march away, Ruth MacDonald catches John Cameron's eye and waves to him. In the excitement of the moment they both forget the social barriers that lie between them and only remember they were schoolmates as children. From...
The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax - Harriet Parr
The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax - Harriet Parr
- Author: Harriet Parr
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
This is the coming of age story of Bessie Fairfax. A story about a girl who learns to see the world is it is and navigate in it. This is a vivid and charming story by Harriet Parr, who wrote under the pseudonym of Holm Lee. She was a best selling...
Sowing and Reaping - Frances E. W. HARPER
Sowing and Reaping - Frances E. W. HARPER
- Author: Frances E. W. HARPER
- Genre: Family Life / Religious Fiction / Romance
This novel is subtitled A Temperance Story, which identifies explicitly the focus of the work. Frances Harper is a Christian moralist and uses her writings for didactic purposes. Here she contrast two couples, one, Belle and Paul, who do not drink...
The Wall Street Girl - Frederick O. BARTLETT
The Wall Street Girl - Frederick O. BARTLETT
- Author: Frederick O. BARTLETT
- Genre: Romance
After the loss of his father, Don finds that life isn't quite as easy when having to make his own way in the world. Stripped of his riches, he must find a way to make his own money. On this journey he discovers that life will be very different for...
Beau Brocade - Baroness Orczy
Beau Brocade - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Beau Brocade is a historical fiction set in England in the early 1700's. The hero Beau is a wanted highwayman, who takes from the rich to help the poor. - Summary by Deon Gines...
Lady Huntworth's Experiment - R. C. Carton
Lady Huntworth's Experiment - R. C. Carton
- Author: R. C. Carton
- Genre: Family Life / Plays / Romance
Lady Huntworth is in disguise and under cover as a cook. She entertains a number of men and the comedy ensues.- Summary by Michele Eaton Stage Directions: wib66 Captain Dorvastan: adrianstephens Reverend Audley Pillenger: toddhw Reverend Thorsby:...
The Princess and the Ploughman - Florence Morse Kingsley
The Princess and the Ploughman - Florence Morse Kingsley
- Author: Florence Morse Kingsley
- Genre: Romance
On the surface, Mary is the typical literary heroine: Beautiful, animated, and accomplished. She will be rich, too, when she inherits her aunt's large fortune. There is only one problem: Mary is required to marry before her twenty-third birthday or...
The Rainbow (Version 3) - D. H. Lawrence
The Rainbow (Version 3) - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
The Rainbow is the story of three generations of the Brangwen family, a sexual and religious collection of incidents that eventually shows the inertia of an individual consciousness to outgrow the commonplace and embrace the reality that lies beyond...
A Christmas Honeymoon - Frances Aymar Mathews
A Christmas Honeymoon - Frances Aymar Mathews
- Author: Frances Aymar Mathews
- Genre: Romance
Newlyweds Betty Revere and Peter Van Zandt are completely smitten with each other. Their wedding is said to have been one of the most beautiful ever seen in New York. A conflict between the couple causes a series of events to take place which isn’t...
The Marquis de Villemer - George SAND
The Marquis de Villemer - George SAND
- Author: George SAND
- Genre: Family Life / Romance
Caroline is a very intelligent woman. She received a good convent education until her father lost his fortune in a failed venture and died soon after. While her sister marries, Caroline has to go to Paris to support herself as a lady companion. In...
The Lady of Lyons - Edward BULWER-LYTTON
The Lady of Lyons - Edward BULWER-LYTTON
- Author: Edward BULWER-LYTTON
- Genre: Romance
Although the author of this play is now famous for writing the most cliché opening line in literature – “It was a dark and stormy night…” (from his 1830 novel, "Paul Clifford" ), this melodrama by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton was at one time one of the...
White Cockades: An Incident of the "Forty-Five" - Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson
White Cockades: An Incident of the "Forty-Five" - Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson
- Author: Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
In the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite uprising, the young Andrew Boyd meets a fugitive from the redcoats, a man whom Andrew soon grows to admire. Andrew and his father take the man in, but then the redcoats arrive to search the house... Besides...
Overruled - George Bernard Shaw
Overruled - George Bernard Shaw
- Author: George Bernard Shaw
- Genre: Romance
This is a short one act comedy by Shaw which involves two couples on a cruise who both need help figuring out their relationships. (Summary by Michele Eaton) Cast: Narrator:MichaelMaggs Mrs Lunn: wib66 Mrs Juno: qthemusic123 Gregory Lunn: Hamlet...
Adam Bede (version 2) - George Eliot
Adam Bede (version 2) - George Eliot
- Author: George Eliot
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Romance
George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans – an ironic ‘deception’ given that Adam Bede, her first novel, is written unashamedly from a feminist standpoint. The story centres on a pastoral love triangle. Two young men, carpenter Adam Bede and...
An American Tragedy, Volume 1 - Theodore DREISER
An American Tragedy, Volume 1 - Theodore DREISER
- Author: Theodore DREISER
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance
Loosely based on a true story, this is the tale of Clyde Griffiths. At a young age, Clyde realizes that money and influence can get him the finer things in life. As a young man, he finds himself torn between the poor but virtuous Roberta, and Sondra...
The Mother's Recompense - Edith Wharton
The Mother's Recompense - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
Kate Cephane, now living in self-imposed exile in France, left her three-year-old daughter Anne behind when she fled her impossibly unhappy marriage for a brief affair. When Anne asks her to return because she is getting engaged, Kate risks the...
''Mr Rowl'' - D. K. Broster
''Mr Rowl'' - D. K. Broster
- Author: D. K. Broster
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
Raoul des Sablières, a French parole prisoner in England during the Napoleonic Wars, becomes enmeshed in a complicated tangle where his honour conflicts with his parole, and is sent to prison. Juliana Forrest, for whose sake he broke his parole,...
One Thing Needful - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
One Thing Needful - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Can starving children be grateful for the education they receive if, when they ask for food, rich people give them a stone? This is the question in the heart of this rich psychological novel. Lady Lashmore is a typical lady of her time, ruling every...
Minnie's Sacrifice - Frances E. W. HARPER
Minnie's Sacrifice - Frances E. W. HARPER
- Author: Frances E. W. HARPER
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
Minnie, who lives in the South, does not know she is a mulatto. She is sent to the North after her mother's death, and there she marries Louis, who is ironically also of mixed parentage. The story revolves around their discoveries and how they deal...
Say and Seal, Volume 1 - Susan Warner
Say and Seal, Volume 1 - Susan Warner
- Author: Susan Warner
- Genre: Romance / Christian Fiction
The arrival of a new schoolteacher causes quite a stir in the small New England town of Pattaquasset, not the least of it in the house of Mrs. Derrick and her daughter, where the young man boards. Mr. Linden's idea of teaching stretches far beyond...
Oliver's Bride - Margaret O. Oliphant
Oliver's Bride - Margaret O. Oliphant
- Author: Margaret O. Oliphant
- Genre: Family Life / Romance
Betrothed to one woman but married to another whose heart will be broken. Summary by Michele Eaton...
Plain Mary Smith: A Romance of Red Saunders - Henry Wallace Phillips
Plain Mary Smith: A Romance of Red Saunders - Henry Wallace Phillips
- Author: Henry Wallace Phillips
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
More than anything, the young Red Saunders wanted to be a good boy. And he was a good boy, except for his quick temper and quicker fists. By the time he was 16 he knew he had to leave home, leave town, leave the life he knew. And that’s when life...
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
Set in 1925, this is a novel of the Jazz Age; of ambition, of the careless rich, of wild parties and flappers and bootleg booze; and the efforts of a dreamer to reunite with his lost love. - Summary by Kara...
Weird Tales, Volume 2 - E. T. A. Hoffmann
Weird Tales, Volume 2 - E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance / Fantasy Fiction
Paradoxically, it is variety that unites the tales you are about to read. They take place in widely separated countries and historical periods, and their outcomes—fortunate or tragic—cannot always be predicted with accuracy. The characters too speak...
Love Songs (Version 2) - Sara Teasdale
Love Songs (Version 2) - Sara Teasdale
- Author: Sara Teasdale
- Genre: Romance / Single author / Lyric
With classical, lyrical tones, and frequently feminist-influenced themes, Sara Teasdale’s Love Songs established her as one of the leading writers in the new Romanticism movement. The book of poems, originally published in 1917, saw five additional...
