Man-woman relationships -- Fiction books

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

The novel opens with a self‑portrait of its orphaned narrator, Pip, whose very name is a contraction of the…

A farewell to arms

Ernest Hemingway

The novel opens on a summer‑time front line where a house overlooks a river, a plain of crops, and distant…

What Will People Say? A Novel

Rupert Hughes

What you have here is a social‑drama set in 20th‑century New York, cataloguing the tangled relationships of a…

Manon Lescaut

abbé Prévost

The work is an eighteenth‑century French adventure romance that begins with a vivid tableau of a bustling…

Eloisa: or, A series of original letters

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Eloisa, or, A Series of Original Letters is an epistolary work by Jean‑Jacques Rousseau that unfolds as a…

The Red Lily — Complete

Anatole France

The Red Lily is a multi‑part French novel by Anatole France, presented here in English translation.

The Place of Honeymoons

Harold MacGrath

The Place of Honeymoons is a genteel, multi‑character tableau set on a sun‑kissed terrace overlooking the…

Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman

Thomas Hardy

The work is a Victorian‑era didactic novel that weaves together themes of poverty, social hierarchy, and…

The Real Adventure

Henry Kitchell Webster

The work is a domestic romance that foregrounds the emotional turbulence of a married couple confronting a…

Set in Silver

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

Set in Silver is an epistolary novel that opens with a lively letter from Audrie Brendon to her mother in…

The Heather-Moon

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

The Heather‑Moon is a turn‑of‑the‑century romance aimed at young women, set in a gloomy British household…

The Torrents of Spring

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

The work is a Russian novella that opens with a weary, middle‑aged narrator confronting a sudden, suffocating…

Wanderfoot (The Dream Ship)

Cynthia Stockley

Wanderfoot, published in 1913 under the alternate title The Dream Ship, is a romance‑driven novel that opens…

The Creators: A Comedy

May Sinclair

The Creators: A Comedy is a satirical drama that turns its focus on the tangled lives of writers and their…

Master of the Vineyard

Myrtle Reed

The novel opens with a lyrical panorama of a secluded valley, where Rosemary, a twenty‑five‑year‑old woman,…

A Voice in the Wilderness

Grace Livingston Hill

A. Grace Livingston Hill’s opening places the reader in a stark, night‑time desert scene where a young…

The Raft

Coningsby Dawson

The Raft is a turn‑of‑the‑century social novel that frames its story as a study of courtship and the…

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…

Professor Unrat, oder, Das Ende eines Tyrannen

Heinrich Mann

Der Roman „Professor Unrat, oder, Das Ende eines Tyrannen“ von Heinrich Mann eröffnet mit einer dichten…

The Girl on the Boat

P. G. Wodehouse

The novel is a light‑hearted romp that mixes romance, sport and a touch of social satire.

The Kingdom Round the Corner: A Novel

Coningsby Dawson

The Kingdom Round the Corner is a post‑war novel that follows a demobilised officer, “Tabs,” as he steps from…

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 easiest way: A Story of Metropolitan Life

Walter, Eugene; Hornblow, Arthur

The novel is a melodramatic social study of a fallen woman who tries to escape her “scarlet past” through a…

The Dust Flower

Basil King

The Dust Flower is a social comedy that pits a restless young man against his imperious fiancée in a battle…