Romance

Quintus Claudius: A Romance of Imperial Rome. Volume 1

Ernst Eckstein

Ernst Eckstein’s Quintus Claudius is a historical romance set in the later Flavian era, specifically the year…

The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot

Holman Day

The opening places the reader in a gritty, turn‑of‑the‑century mill city, where Walker Farr, a young man with…

Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story

H. G. Wells

Ann Veronica is a feminist‑tinged love story that opens with the heroine’s stark assessment of marriage as a…

The Green Mouse

Robert W. Chambers

The Green Mouse is a whimsical blend of fantasy and early‑twentieth‑century New York society, framed as a…

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

Philip Sidney

The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia is a sprawling pastoral romance that opens amid a tangled web of love,…

The Real Adventure

Henry Kitchell Webster

The work is a domestic romance that foregrounds the emotional turbulence of a married couple confronting a…

India's Love Lyrics

Laurence Hope

India’s Love Lyrics gathers a series of poems and songs that draw their colour from the sub‑continent’s…

Just Around the Corner: Romance en casserole

Fannie Hurst

Just Around the Corner: Romance en casserole is a collection of short stories by Fannie Hurst, first…

The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times

George Alfred Townsend

The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times is a nineteenth‑century melodrama that folds the grim business of…

The rose of old St. Louis

Mary Dillon

The Rose of Old St. Louis is a historical‑fiction romance set amid the bustling social life of early…

Set in Silver

Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris); Williamson, A. M.

Set in Silver is an epistolary novel that opens with a lively letter from Audrie Brendon to her mother in…

Trial by water

Sewell Peaslee Wright

The story is a compact adventure set in the Canadian wilderness, where a young wife, her husband Jean…

Cruel as the grave

Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

The novel opens in a grand, yet slightly decaying mansion where a carriage pulls up to a stone‑staired…

Love's Labour's Lost

William Shakespeare

The play opens in the royal park of Navarre, where King Ferdinand gathers his courtiers, Berowne, Longaville…

The Heather-Moon

Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris); Williamson, A. M.

The Heather‑Moon is a turn‑of‑the‑century romance aimed at young women, set in a gloomy British household…

Love-at-arms: being a narrative excerpted from the chronicles of Urbino, during the dominion of the high and mighty Messer Guidobaldo da Montefeltro

Rafael Sabatini

Love‑at‑arms is a historical‑fiction narrative set in early‑sixteenth‑century Italy, drawn from the…

Aladdin & Co.: A Romance of Yankee Magic

Herbert Quick

Aladdin & Co. is a sprawling, early‑twentieth‑century melodrama that plunges the reader straight into the…

The Man Who Did the Right Thing: A Romance

Harry Johnston

The novel is a romance set against the backdrop of British missionary and diplomatic activity in East Africa,…

Blue-grass and Broadway

Maria Thompson Daviess

The work is a turn‑of‑the‑century theatrical romance set against the glitter of Broadway, introduced through…

The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

P. G. Wodehouse

The volume is a collection of humorous short pieces by P. G.

Desperate Remedies

Thomas Hardy

Desperate Remedies is a Victorian‑era romance that places a young maid, Cytherea, at the heart of a tangled…

Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Vol 1-4, Complete

Lyndon Orr

Famous Affinities of History, by Lyndon Orr, is a sweeping biographical survey that treats England’s monarchs…

The Amazing Marriage — Complete

George Meredith

George Meredith’s The Amazing Marriage is a late‑Victorian novel that opens with a densely layered scene of…

Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter

Lawrence L. Lynch

Lawrence L. Lynch’s “Madeline Payne, the Detective’s Daughter” is a detective‑mystery story that thrusts its…