Man-woman relationships -- Fiction books

Glory of Youth

Temple Bailey

Glory of Youth is a domestic drama that foregrounds the tangled emotions of a young woman caught between…

The Lion's Mouse

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

The novel is an adventure story that also explores a tense man‑woman relationship, as indicated by its…

The haunting hand

Walter Adolphe Roberts

The novel opens in an October evening that is both vivid and intimate, introducing Margot Anstruther, a young…

The black pearl

Marie Lion

The Black Pearl is a French‑language novel that follows a young French‑Australian woman, Jeanne, as she…

The Green Dolphin

Sara Ware Bassett

The Green Dolphin is a domestic comedy set in a New England harbor town, where the solitary Asaph Holmes, a…

The woman of Andros

Thornton Wilder

The novel opens with a sweeping, lyrical description of the Mediterranean at night, moving from the red glow…

A young man's story

Sarah Doudney

The work is a short‑fiction tale that blends a gentle romance with a hint of the uncanny.

Joan and Co.

Frederick Orin Bartlett

The novel opens in the glittering world of New York’s social season, where the young debutante Joan Fairburne…

The Orchard of Tears

Sax Rohmer

The Orchard of Tears opens with a languid summer noon at Hatton Towers, where the poet‑artist Paul Mario…

The Devil: A Tragedy of the Heart and Conscience

Joseph O'Brien

The work is a melodramatic tragedy that pits personal desire against a looming moral threat, framing its…

The Mystics: A Novel

Katherine Cecil Thurston

The novel opens in a bleak, wind‑lashed house on the Scottish coast, where the young John Henderson watches…

Stubble

George Looms

The novel opens on a rain‑slicked porch in a small Kentucky town, where Mary Louise, a young woman of modest…

A Beautiful Alien

Julia Magruder

The novel opens aboard a steamship bound for an unnamed shore, where the artist‑lawyer Albert Noel watches a…

The Explorer

W. Somerset Maugham

The novel opens on a bleak, wind‑less stretch of Kentish coast, where a solitary woman stands amid tangled…

The tale of Genji

Murasaki Shikibu

The Tale of Genji is a psychological romance set in the aristocratic world of Heian‑period Japan, where…

Anna the Adventuress

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The novel is a late‑period work by E. Phillips Oppenwell, built around the tangled identities of two sisters,…

To Love

Margaret Peterson

The novel is a turn‑of‑the‑century English romance that opens with a conversation between the headstrong…

Between two thieves

Richard Dehan

The novel is a sprawling historical romance set against the backdrop of the Crimean War and the later…

Lady Chatterley's lover

D. H. Lawrence

The novel is an erotic exploration of adultery and class in post‑World‑War‑I England, centered on Constance…

The Beast in the Jungle

Henry James

The novel is a psychological study of social interaction set against the backdrop of an opulent country house…

Only a girl-wife

Ruth Lamb

Only a girl‑wife is a quietly earnest work of Christian fiction that centers on the domestic life of Dr.

The New Machiavelli

H. G. Wells

The work is a self‑conscious political novel that opens with a narrator confessing his restless attempts to…

Les liaisons dangereuses Lettres recueillies dans une Société et publiées pour l'instruction de quelques autres

Choderlos de Laclos

Ce roman épistolaire, signé Choderlos de Laclos, se présente comme une collection de lettres circulant dans…

The Ambassadors

Henry James

The work is a psychological novel that first appeared in twelve installments of The North American Review in…