Romance
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfol…
The Yellow House
In a tranquil country village, a vicar and his two daughters seek a fresh start, only to find their new neighbor in the enigmatic yellow hou…
Ann Veronica
Ann Veronica was a controversial book detailing the development of a naive school girl into a "New Woman". When it was published, …
Pauline's Passion and Punishment
Before she wrote Little Women and Little Men, Louisa, writing under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, had this `blood and thunder' thriller (as sh…
The Woman Who Did
Most times, especially in the time when this book was written (1895), it is just as nature and society would wish: a man and woman "fal…
Dead Men's Shoes
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 w…
Nobody
There are many romantic tales about a handsome and rich man falling in love with a beautiful lower class woman over the objections of his fa…
A Sicilian Romance
A Sicilian Romance is a Gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe. It was her second published work, and was first published anonymously in 1790. The pl…
Montezuma's Daughter
A moving adventure story narrated by Thomas Wingfield, an Englishman, for Queen Elizabeth 1 of England about the murder of his mother, his t…
Lavender and Old Lace
"Jane Hathaway and her niece, Ruth Thorne, have never met. Jane invites Ruth for a visit, but leaves before Ruth comes. Ruth agrees to …
Night and Day
Night and Day (1919) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives of two friends, Katharin…
The Price of Love
Rachel Louise Fleckring works for the elderly Mrs Maldon, and although with the woman for only a short time, she is taken into the heart of …
Heart of the World
H. Rider Haggard wrote Heart of the World in 1895 and it tells of the search for a secret and hidden Mayan civilization living in a long los…
The Three Clerks
Romance and crime in the mid-19th century British Civil Service. In this early novel,Trollope draws on his own experiences as a junior clerk…
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Tess of the d'Urbervilles subtitled, "A Pure Woman," is the story of a young working woman named Tess Durbeyfield who is sent by h…
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1908 romance novel/western novel written by John Fox, Jr.. The novel became Fox's most successful, and w…
Her Mother's Secret
What kind of secret could a mother be keeping that would keep long time lovers apart, and force her eldest daughter into a hasty marriage? Y…
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice is a keenly observed exploration of love, class, and social expectations in early 19th-century England. At its heart is …
Fräulein Minna und der Reitknecht
Minnas neuer Reitknecht Michael kennt weder seine Mutter noch seinen Vater. Sie ist fasziniert von dem Mann, der versucht, das Beste aus sei…
Sense and Sensibility
This is a story of the English moneyed class and its eternal struggle for creating “sense and sensibility” in its world. A potential marriag…