Romance

The Boy with Wings

Berta Ruck

The novel is a wartime romance set against the flamboyant backdrop of an English artists’ ball in the early…

The Treasure of Pearls: A Romance of Adventures in California

Gustave Aimard

The Treasure of Pearls is a Western romance that plunges the reader straight into the law‑less frontier of…

Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast

Holman Day

The novel opens on a mist‑shrouded New England harbor, where the taciturn Captain Mayo is tasked with…

The Hero of the People: A Historical Romance of Love, Liberty and Loyalty

Alexandre Dumas

The Hero of the People is an historical romance set amid the tumult of the French Revolution, where the drama…

Eloisa: or, A series of original letters

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Eloisa, or, A Series of Original Letters is an epistolary work by Jean‑Jacques Rousseau that unfolds as a…

On the Cross: A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau

Wilhelmine von Hillern

On the Cross: A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau is a turn‑of‑the‑century German romance that…

The Gay Adventure: A Romance

Richard Bird

The Gay Adventure: A Romance is a whimsical, episodic tale that begins with a restless young man named Tony…

Doctor Cupid: A Novel

Rhoda Broughton

Doctor Cupid is a comic novel by Welsh author Rhoda Broughton, first published in 1891.

Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor

R. D. Blackmore

The novel is a historical romance set against the rugged backdrop of Exmoor in the late seventeenth century,…

Roméo et Juliette Tragédie

William Shakespeare

Cette œuvre est une tragédie dramatique qui se déploie dès le début dans le décor animé d’un carnaval de…

The Crack of Doom

Robert Cromie

Robert Cromie’s The Crack of Doom is a late‑Victorian blend of science‑fiction and paranormal intrigue,…

I am a woman

Ann Bannon

The novel is a mid‑century American romance that follows Laura, a young woman who flees an abusive,…

Sonnets from the Portuguese

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese is a collection of forty‑two love poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, first…

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a drama set in Verona, Italy, that pits the youthful heirs of the feuding…

The Silent Barrier

Louis Tracy

The Silent Barrier reads as an Alpine adventure mingled with mystery, set against the rugged backdrop of…

Cynthia's Chauffeur

Louis Tracy

Cynthia’s Chauffeur is a turn‑of‑the‑century romance that places a British aristocrat and his steadfast…

Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame

Francesco Colonna

Francesco Colonna’s Hypnerotomachia is a fifteenth‑century Italian romance rendered into English, presenting…

Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship

The collection opens with George Egerton’s “A Little Grey Glove,” a sprawling, first‑person narrative that…

Moods

Louisa May Alcott

The novel opens with a lyrical reference to the Lady of Shalott before slipping into a domestic scene where…

The Blue Lagoon: A Romance

H. De Vere Stacpoole

The Blue Lagoon is a romance set on an isolated island, blending adventure, love, and a coming‑of‑age tone.

Dainty's Cruel Rivals; Or, The Fatal Birthday

Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller

The novel is a melodramatic romance that weaves together love, rivalry, and a touch of the supernatural.

Love and Freindship [sic]

Jane Austen

Love and Friendship is an early epistolary work that presents itself as a series of letters exchanged among a…

The Romance of Tristan and Iseult

Joseph Bédier

The Romance of Tristan and Iseult, rendered by Joseph Bédier, is an adaptation of the medieval Arthurian…

Catriona

Robert Louis Stevenson

Catriona is a historical adventure set in mid‑18th‑century Scotland, following the return of David Balfour,…