Romance

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

The novel is a domestic fiction set in England that follows the intertwined lives of the Bennet sisters as…

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

The work is a dramatic tragedy set in Verona, where two noble families, the Capulets and the Montagues, are…

A Room with a View

E. M. Forster

The opening of A Room with a View places the reader amid a noisy dinner table in a Florentine pension, where…

The Blue Castle: A Novel

L. M. Montgomery

The novel follows Valancy Stirling, a twenty‑nine‑year‑old single woman living in a small Canadian town in…

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Charlotte Brontë

The work is an autobiographical‑style novel that follows the early life of an orphaned girl in England,…

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

The novel opens with a detailed account of the Dashwood family’s long‑standing estate in Sussex, introducing…

Le Fantôme de l'Opéra

Gaston Leroux

Ce roman s’inscrit dans le croisement du récit d’horreur, de la fiction musicale et du drame parisien du XIXᵉ…

The String of Pearls; Or, The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance.

Rymer, James Malcolm; Prest, Thomas Peckett

The work is a lurid blend of historical fiction and horror, set in late‑eighteenth‑century London where the…

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 (of 10)

The volume presents itself as a labor‑of‑love translation of the Arabian Nights, framed by a lengthy preface…

The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay

Mary Wollstonecraft

The volume presents the intimate correspondence between Mary Wollstonecraft, the pioneering 18th‑century…

The Mysteries of Udolpho

Ann Ward Radcliffe

The opening places the reader in 1584 on the banks of the Garonne, where the modest château of Monsieur St.

The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance

Lucas Malet

The novel unfolds as a densely layered domestic drama set in the early nineteenth‑century English…

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice is a domestic fiction set in early‑nineteenth‑century England, focusing on the marriage…

Carmen

Prosper Mérimée

Prosper Mérimée’s Carmen is a short‑fiction work that sketches 19th‑century Spanish social life through the…

The Secret of Chimneys

Agatha Christie

The Secret of Chimneys opens as a lively, if slightly rambling, tableau of British expatriates and their…

The Lady of the Lake

Walter Scott

The work is an Arthurian romance by Sir Walter Scott, presented as the fifth canto of a larger poem.

The Green Mummy

Fergus Hume

The Green Mummy is a late‑Victorian detective tale that opens in the wake of a murder that has already been…

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

The novel is a social comedy of manners set in early‑nineteenth‑century England, where the lives of young…

The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of Jane Austen A Linked Index of all PG Editions of Jane Austen

Jane Austen

This volume is not a novel but a comprehensive index that gathers every Jane Austen work made available…

That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day

Richard Dehan

Richard Dehan’s novel, set against the backdrop of the First World War, opens in a lavish dining room where a…

A Honeymoon in Space

George Chetwynd Griffith

A science‑fiction adventure set in the early twentieth‑century imagination, A Honeymoon in Space follows the…

Four Arthurian Romances

Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century

Four Arthurian Romances gathers the chivalric tales of Chrétien de Troyes, the 12th‑century poet who shaped…

A farewell to arms

Ernest Hemingway

The novel opens on a summer‑time front line where a house overlooks a river, a plain of crops, and distant…

Under the Red Dragon: A Novel

James Grant

The novel is a Victorian‑era romance set against the backdrop of the Crimean War, though the opening places…