Romance

Nell, of Shorne Mills: or, One heart's burden

Charles Garvice

The novel is a brisk, melodramatic love story typical of late‑Victorian dime fiction.

The Highgrader

William MacLeod Raine

The Highgrader opens aboard an ocean liner at dusk, its glass‑smooth sea and mist‑shrouded horizon setting a…

The Dew of Their Youth

S. R. Crockett

The Dew of Their Youth is a school‑yard tale set in a Scottish academy that opens with a bustling rounders…

The Forester's Daughter: A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range

Hamlin Garland

The novel is a Western romance set in the rugged Bear‑Tooth Range of Colorado, where a stagecoach line…

At the Sign of the Cat and Racket

Honoré de Balzac

Balzac’s short story “At the Sign of the Cat and Racket” is a vivid slice of early‑nineteenth‑century…

La dame aux camélias

Alexandre Dumas

Ce roman s’ouvre sur le récit d’une visite d’une vente aux enchères d’un appartement parisien où, trois…

The Hawk of Egypt

Joan Conquest

The Hawk of Egypt is a sprawling adventure set in a bustling Egyptian bazaar, where the opening scene…

The Small House at Allington

Anthony Trollope

The novel is a domestic tale set in the imagined county of Barsetshire, focusing on the intertwined lives of…

In Her Own Right

John Reed Scott

In In Her Own Right John Reed Scott weaves a tale of love, adventure, and intrigue set against the backdrop…

Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 24

Wilson’s Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 24 is a lyrical romance set in the bucolic valleys of…

Bird of Paradise

Ada Leverson

The novel opens with an intimate portrait of Bertha, Mrs.

The Lion's Mouse

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

The novel is an adventure story that also explores a tense man‑woman relationship, as indicated by its…

Sally of Missouri

Rose E. Young

The opening places the reader on the crest of the Tigmore Hills in the Ozark Uplift, where a young New York…

Marcia Schuyler

Grace Livingston Hill

Grace Livingston Hill’s “Marcia Schuyler” opens with a vivid, pastoral scene that quickly establishes the…

The Range Boss

Charles Alden Seltzer

The Range Boss is a Western tale that launches with a lone rider and his wiry pony scaling a rugged mesa,…

Love and Life: An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume

Charlotte M. Yonge

The work is a nineteenth‑century English romance that retells the ancient Psyche‑Cupid myth in…

Die Liebe: Novelle

Hans Kaltneker

Die Erzählung „Die Liebe“ von Hans Kaltneker ist eine experimentelle Novelle, die sich im Spannungsfeld von…

Penny of Top Hill Trail

Belle Kanaris Maniates

Belle Kanaris Maniates’s “Penny of Top Hill Trail” opens on a spring afternoon in a western railway depot,…

A Little Traitor to the South A War Time Comedy with a Tragic Interlude

Cyrus Townsend Brady

This work is a Civil‑War novel that mixes a light‑hearted romance with a somber vignette about a Confederate…

Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete

Edward Bulwer Lytton

The work is a nineteenth‑century English novel by Edward Bulwer‑Lytton, opening with a tranquil Devonshire…

The Tyranny of Weakness

Charles Neville Buck

The work is a sprawling piece of nineteenth‑century fiction that opens with a vivid tableau of a boy and a…

The Indifference of Juliet

Grace S. Richmond

The Indifference of Juliet is a late‑nineteenth‑century American fiction piece that opens with a lively,…

King Midas: a Romance

Upton Sinclair

King Midas: a Romance is a lyrical work of fiction by Upton Sinclair that opens with a scholarly aside on…

Amaury

Alexandre Dumas

En esta obra, el narrador‑conde de M… nos invita a una noche de conversación en su salón parisino, donde la…