Love stories books

The Street of Seven Stars

Mary Roberts Rinehart

The novel opens in a damp, candle‑lit salon of an old stucco house on Vienna’s Siebensternstraße, once a…

Felix Holt, the Radical

George Eliot

The novel is a sweeping work of English political and domestic fiction that opens with a panoramic, almost…

The Cloister and the Hearth

Charles Reade

The Cloister and the Hearth is a historical‑fiction romance set in the mid‑fifteenth‑century Netherlands, a…

King Spruce, A Novel

Holman Day

King Spruce is a regional novel set in the timber‑rich woods of Maine, where the lumber trade and its…

Zuleika Dobson; Or, An Oxford Love Story

Sir Max Beerbohm

Max Beerbohm’s Zuleika Dobson is a comic romance set amid the ritualised world of Oxford University.

The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel

W. E. B. Du Bois

The novel unfolds as a psychological fable that intertwines the inner turmoil of a lonely boy with the vivid,…

The Last Chronicle of Barset

Anthony Trollope

The novel is a sprawling social portrait of 19th‑century England, set in the fictional county of Barsetshire,…

The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2

Henry James

The novel opens in a cramped London drawing‑room where Kate Croy, a young woman of striking poise, waits for…

Daddy-Long-Legs

Jean Webster

The novel is a bildungsroman that follows Jerusha Abbott, a seventeen‑year‑old orphan who has spent her…

Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor

R. D. Blackmore

The Lily of the Valley

Honoré de Balzac

The Lily of the Valley is a French historical‑fiction work that blends biographical elements with a deeply…

The Four Feathers

A. E. W. Mason

The Four Feathers is a war‑and‑love story set among a circle of retired officers who gather each year to…

Great short stories, Volume 3 (of 3): Romance & Adventure

Great short stories, Volume 3 gathers a selection of nineteenth‑century French tales that blend romance with…

The Cloister and the Hearth: A Tale of the Middle Ages

Charles Reade

The Cloister and the Hearth is a historical‑fiction romance set in the mid‑fifteenth‑century Netherlands,…

The star dreamer: A romance

Castle, Agnes; Castle, Egerton

La Chartreuse De Parme

Stendhal

King--of the Khyber Rifles: A Romance of Adventure

Talbot Mundy

The Crucible

Mark Lee Luther

The Reef

Edith Wharton

A Laodicean : A Story of To-day

Thomas Hardy

The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows

Joseph Conrad

The Woodlanders

Thomas Hardy

Poor Miss Finch

Wilkie Collins

The Grandissimes

George Washington Cable