Love stories books

Camille (La Dame aux Camilias)

Alexandre Dumas

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

Gevoel en verstand

Jane Austen

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

Persuasion

Jane Austen

Persuasion is a late‑nineteenth‑century English novel that begins by sketching the narrow world of Sir Walter…

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…

Children of the Whirlwind

Leroy Scott

The novel is a gritty blend of romance and crime, set in a world of ex‑convicts and underworld schemers.

Desperate Remedies

Thomas Hardy

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

Two on a Tower

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy’s “Two on a Tower” unfolds as a tightly wound episode of didactic fiction, set against the…

An Old Man's Love

Anthony Trollope

The novel opens with a portrait of Mr Hall, a seventy‑year‑old English squire who prides himself on a life…

The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1

Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady, Volume 1 is a work of psychological fiction that opens with an extensive portrait of…

Ivanhoe

Walter Scott

Dit is een historische roman van Sir Walter Scott, geschreven in 1819, die zich afspeelt aan het einde van de…

Anthem

Ayn Rand

The work is a speculative, psychological narrative that blends science‑fiction ideas with a stark,…

In Jeopardy

Van Tassel Sutphen

In In Jeopardy Van Tassel Sutphen weaves a hybrid of inheritance drama, romance, and mystery set against a…

The Young Duke

Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The Young Duke is a sprawling work of political and social fiction that follows the early life of George…

The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena's Plan

Daisy Ashford

The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena’s Plan is a whimsical, self‑conscious novel that proudly advertises its…

High Noon: A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks'

High Noon continues the romantic saga begun in Three Weeks, presenting the third installment of Sir Paul…

The Hermit Doctor of Gaya: A Love Story of Modern India

I. A. R. Wylie

The novel is a sprawling romance set against the backdrop of nineteenth‑century India, where the lives of a…

The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIIIth Century

Georgette Heyer

The Black Moth is a Regency‑era romance set in eighteenth‑century England, where aristocratic intrigue and…

The Love-Story of Aliette Brunton

Gilbert Frankau

The Love‑Story of Aliette Brunton is a turn‑of‑the‑century English romance that opens with a philosophical…

The Girl and the Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure

Bannister Merwin

The novel opens on a bustling State Street in Chicago, where the practical‑minded lawyer Robert Orme watches…

The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man

George Randolph Chester

The work is a light‑hearted, first‑person narrative that follows the newly‑inherited heir Bobby Burnit as he…

Hurricane Island

H. B. Marriott Watson

The novel is a Victorian‑era adventure narrated by a disillusioned London doctor who practices his trade in…

The Last Woman

Ross Beeckman

The Last Woman is a romance set against the high‑stakes world of early‑twentieth‑century Wall Street.

Mansfield Park

Jane Austen

The novel is a domestic drama set in early‑nineteenth‑century England, focusing on the tangled relationships…

Salthaven

W. W. Jacobs

The novel opens in the modest office of Mr. Hartley, a veteran clerk whose thirty‑five years of service have…