Romance

Venus im Pelz

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold, Ritter von

Die Novelle „Venus im Pelz“ von Leopold von Sacher‑Masoch ist ein erotischer Text, der zugleich zu den frühen…

Erotica Romana

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Erotica Romana is a collection of German poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe rendered into English.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 452 Volume 18, New Series, August 28, 1852

Various

Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, No. 452 (New Series, August 28 1852), is a mid‑nineteenth‑century periodical…

As You Like It

William Shakespeare

This work is a Shakespearean comedy that opens in an orchard near Oliver’s house, where the disgruntled…

The Prairie Wife

Arthur Stringer

Arthur Stringer’s The Prairie Wife is a first‑person narrative that situates itself firmly in the Canadian…

A pair of blue eyes

Thomas Hardy

The novel opens as a kind of didactic fable set against a vividly described Wessex landscape, where the…

The Candidate: A Political Romance

Joseph A. Altsheler

The Candidate: A Political Romance is a work of political fiction that follows a campaign trail set against…

Complete Short Works of George Meredith

George Meredith

The volume gathers George Meredith’s shorter prose, beginning with the exuberant episode “The Ride and the…

Undine

La Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de

Undine is a Romantic fantasy that blends chivalric adventure with folklore about water spirits.

Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 — Boethius and Troilus

Geoffrey Chaucer

This volume gathers Geoffrey Chaucer’s Middle‑English poems “Boethius” and “Troilus,” presenting them as they…

Camille (La Dame aux Camilias)

Alexandre Dumas

Camille is a French‑language novel that blends romance, social commentary and a touch of melodrama, set…

Mademoiselle de Maupin, Volume 1 (of 2)

Théophile Gautier

Mademoiselle de Maupin, Volume 1, is Théophile Gautier’s early French romance, originally issued in two…

Les crimes de l'amour Précédé d'un avant-propos, suivi des idées sur les romans, de l'auteur des crimes de l'amour à Villeterque, d'une notice bio-bibliographique du marquis de Sade: l'homme et ses écrits et du discours prononcé par le marquis de Sade à la section des piques.

marquis de Sade

Ce volume, signé du Marquis de Sade, s’ouvre sur un long monologue où l’auteur mêle une diatribe contre la…

The Girl Philippa

Robert W. Chambers

The novel is a wartime melodrama set against the looming conflict of World War I, as indicated by its subject…

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 20

Robert Louis Stevenson

The volume is a Victorian adventure narrative that blends the intrigue of wartime espionage with the everyday…

The Bakhtyār Nāma: A Persian Romance

The Bakhtyār Nāma is a Persian romance that belongs to the Sindibād cycle of tales, a collection long…

The Red Lily — Complete

Anatole France

The Red Lily is a multi‑part French novel by Anatole France, presented here in English translation.

Torchy and Vee

Sewell Ford

Torchy and Vee is a collection of short, humor‑tinged stories set against the backdrop of World War I…

Gevoel en verstand

Jane Austen

Dit werk is een Nederlandse vertaling van Jane Austens eerste roman, waarin de familie Dashwood centraal…

The Passionate Friends

H. G. Wells

The Passionate Friends is a reflective, semi‑autobiographical novel by H. G.

A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill

Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

A Romance of Billy‑Goat Hill is a regional novel set in a lush Kentucky spring, where the old Carsey mansion,…

The Place of Honeymoons

Harold MacGrath

The Place of Honeymoons is a genteel, multi‑character tableau set on a sun‑kissed terrace overlooking the…

'Firebrand' Trevison

Charles Alden Seltzer

‘Firebrand’ Trevison is a Western story that begins not with a gunfight but with a flurry of letters written…

The Gay Cockade

Temple Bailey

The Gay Cockade is a collection of short stories first published in 1921, and it opens with a lively sketch…