Romance

Alonzo and Melissa; Or, The Unfeeling Father: An American Tale

Mitchell, I. (Isaac); Jackson, Daniel

Alonzo and Melissa is a romance set against the backdrop of the American Revolutionary era, blending…

The Innocents: A Story for Lovers

Sinclair Lewis

The work is a domestic comedy set in early‑twentieth‑century New York, focusing on the long‑married Seth and…

A master of craft

W. W. Jacobs

The novel is a Victorian‑era seafaring romance that opens on a quiet evening at the Wapping wharf, where a…

The Cardinal's snuff-box

Henry Harland

The work is a late‑Victorian romance set against an Italian landscape, introduced by a sweeping description…

A Young Man in a Hurry, and Other Short Stories

Robert W. Chambers

The volume is a collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers, whose work often captures the rhythms of…

Bambi

Marjorie Benton Cooke

The work is a stage‑play‑like novel that centers on Bambi, a witty and self‑assertive young woman, and her…

The Vision of Desire

Margaret Pedler

The Vision of Desire is a melodramatic romance that plunges the reader straight into a crisis of love and…

A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day

Charles Reade

The novel opens with a lavish portrait of Miss Arabella Bruce, a striking young woman whose crimson hair,…

The First of the English: A Novel

Archibald Clavering Gunter

The novel is a sprawling historical adventure set against the brutal flood‑swept night of early spring 1572,…

Transviado

Jaime de Magalhães Lima

Transviado é um romance de ficção portuguesa do século XIX, escrito por Jaime de Magalhães Lima.

The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy

William Makepeace Thackeray

The second volume of William Makepeace Thackeray’s The History of Pendennis continues the comic,…

Jane Seton; or, The King's Advocate: A Scottish Historical Romance

James Grant

Grant’s “Jane Seton; or, The King’s Advocate” is a historical romance that intertwines factual Scottish…

A Love Story

William Harvey Christie

The work opens with an elaborate portrait of the Delmé mansion, its fluted ledges and heraldic eagles,…

Thelma

Marie Corelli

The novel opens with a lavish, almost theatrical description of the midnight sun over Norway’s Altenfjord,…

De wonderstraal; gevolgd door Tien uren op jacht

Jules Verne

Dit boek is een langdradig, bijna theatrale vertelling over de twee Schotse ooms Sam en Sib Melvill, die als…

The Lilac Sunbonnet: A Love Story

S. R. Crockett

The Lilac Sunbonnet is a nineteenth‑century romance that opens amid the rugged scenery of Galloway, where the…

Three millions!: or, The way of the world

Oliver Optic

The work is a juvenile‑fiction tale that follows the fortunes of John Hungerford, a self‑made Baltimore…

Hidden Gold

Wilder Anthony

Hidden Gold is a Western tale that thrusts the reader into a clash of cattle and sheep on the open range.

Sketches

Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The work is a romantic narrative that unfolds as a series of episodic sketches, each chapter presenting a…

Stingaree

E. W. Hornung

Stingaree is a work of early‑twentieth‑century English fiction that plunges the reader into the genteel yet…

Aunt Rachel A Rustic Sentimental Comedy

David Christie Murray

David Christie Murray’s “Aunt Rachel” is billed as a rustic sentimental comedy, and the opening chapter…

Cavanagh, Forest Ranger: A Romance of the Mountain West

Hamlin Garland

Garland’s Cavanagh, Forest Ranger is a Western romance that opens with a nostalgic letter from Gifford…

A Lenda da Meia-Noite

Manuel Pinheiro Chagas

A Lenda da Meia‑Noite, de Manuel Pinheiro Chagas, é um romance ficcional português do século XIX que se…

Her mother's secret

Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

The novel is a nineteenth‑century domestic melodrama that opens in the drawing‑room of the Force family…