Love stories books

The Guarded Heights

Wadsworth Camp

The Guarded Heights is a social‑class romance set against the backdrop of a rural horse‑stable and the…

The Brown Mouse

Herbert Quick

The work is a rural‑setting love story set in Iowa, where the modest lives of a farmer’s daughter and a hired…

A Son of the Immortals

Louis Tracy

A Son of the Immortals is a turn‑of‑the‑century romance that blends love, art, and a dash of political…

The Ghost Girl

H. De Vere Stacpoole

The Ghost Girl is a Southern‑style love story set against the backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina, and the…

Across the Mesa

Helen Bagg

The novel opens with Polly Street’s restless inner monologue as she wrestles with the inconvenience of an…

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.

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 Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

The novel opens amid the glittering ritual of a New York winter opera, where society’s elite arrive in…

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…

In Apple-Blossom Time: A Fairy-Tale to Date

Clara Louise Burnham

The work is a late‑Victorian romance that opens in a bustling eatery, where the plump Miss Upton, exhausted…

The Girl in the Golden Atom

Ray Cummings

The story is a speculative romance that blends scientific imagination with a love‑filled fantasy.

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…

Macaria

Augusta J. Evans

The novel opens in a sweltering Southern night, where a candle‑lit ledger glows over the shoulders of a…

A Simple Story

Mrs. Inchbald

A Simple Story is an eighteenth‑century English novel that concentrates on a handful of intimate…

Ivanhoe: A Romance

Walter Scott

The work is a historical romance that moves from a self‑referential preface into a vivid recreation of…

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…

Seven Miles to Arden

Ruth Sawyer

The novel opens in the women’s free ward of a city hospital, where the spirited actress Patsy O’Connell,…

Borrowed feathers

Ruth Lamb

The work is a short‑story collection aimed at young women, and its opening places the reader in the bustling…

The Wall Between

Sara Ware Bassett

The Wall Between is a regional love story set amid the rolling hills of New Hampshire, where the adjoining…

This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald

This novel is a coming‑of‑age story that follows Amory Blaine, the son of a wealthy Chicago family, from his…

Far from the Madding Crowd

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy’s novel is a didactic work that weaves love‑triangles into a vivid portrait of rural life.

Play the Game!

Ruth Comfort Mitchell

Play the Game! is a domestic drama that centers on Honor Carmody, a spirited young girl caught between the…

Adam Johnstone's Son

F. Marion Crawford

The novel opens with a quiet, reflective conversation between Mrs.

Fiebre de amor (Dominique)

Eugène Fromentin

Este relato, firmado por el autor Eugène Fromentin bajo el título Fiebre de amor, se inscribe en la tradición…