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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
40 days •
ⓘ 1813 • First impressions are misleading in this classic, funny, and memorable story of the tumultuous romance of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy.
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
43 days •
ⓘ 1847 • The classic Gothic tale of love, passion, and death that spans generations on the lonely moors of Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Bronte
69 days •
ⓘ 1848 • A mysterious widow arrives at Wildfell Hall, stirring the interest of a local farmer who uncovers a dark world of debauchery and marital betrayal.
Emma
Jane Austen
67 days •
ⓘ 1815 • Spoiled Emma Woodhouse sets out to be matchmaker extraordinaire. What results instead is a mess of meddling and misconstrued romance.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
208 days •
ⓘ 1844 • During turbulent times in France, Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned for years. He plots his revenge but is doomed to hurt the innocent as well as the guilty.
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
84 days •
ⓘ 1868 • The unforgettable tale of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March - as they grow from childhood to womanhood and find their place in the world.
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
159 days •
ⓘ 1877 • Unhappily married Anna Karenina finds love with the handsome Count Vronsky, but also scorn and tragedy in this unforgettable story.
North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell
83 days •
ⓘ 1854 • Uprooted from her former life, Margaret is thrown in to a rough industrial town and finds herself pulled between the plight of local mill workers and the man she loves.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Radcliffe
126 days •
ⓘ 1794 • Trapped in a medieval castle by a cruel uncle, orphan Emily is faced with fearful threats - both real and supernatural.
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Emma Orczy
35 days •
ⓘ 1905 • With his mastery of disguises and cunning plans, a mysterious Englishman rescues French aristocrats from the dangers of the Terror of the Revolution. He is known only by his symbol: the pimpernel.
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
15 days •
ⓘ 1597 • In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, star-crossed lovers from warring families come together for a tragically brief time in this most famous of romances.
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
30 days •
ⓘ 1817 • Catherine, staying in the shadowy castle of her newfound love, finds herself in the middle of one of the Gothic stories she loves. Mysteries seem to lurk everywhere, hiding dark family secrets.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
19 days •
ⓘ 1774 • The semi-autobiographical collection of letters of Werther, a sensitive artist who falls in love with Charlotte only to find she is already engaged.
Doctor Thorne
Anthony Trollope
91 days •
ⓘ 1858 • Frank Gresham's mother and aunt are intent on his marrying a wealthy heiress. But Frank wants to marry Mary Thorne, who by all appearances is poor and illegitimate. Her watchful uncle keeps a secret about Mary, though.
Persuasion
Jane Austen
33 days •
ⓘ 1818 • In Austen's final novel, Anne Elliot is haunted by her decision to break off her engagement to naval office Frederick. When he returns from duty they are given a chance to reunite.
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
66 days •
ⓘ 1814 • Isolated from her wealthy cousins due to her humble past, Fanny Price watches in alarm as Mary and Henry Crawford arrive and exert a growing influence over nearly everyone at Mansfield Park.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
66 days •
ⓘ 1891 • Driven by poverty to seek kinship with the wealthy D'Ubervilles, Tess is instead led to events that will doom her future with tragedy, lost love, and murder.
The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux
33 days •
ⓘ 1909 • Raised in the Paris Opera House, Christine is protected and taught to sing by a ghost. But she is soon in grave danger as the spirit falls in love with her and is consumed with jealousy.
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
42 days •
ⓘ 1920 • Newland Archer finds himself falling in love with a mysterious Countess, forcing him to make a life-changing decision between her and the conventional May Welland.
Agnes Grey
Anne Bronte
27 days •
ⓘ 1847 • Based on Anne Bronte's time as a governess, Agnes Grey experiences the precarious position of such employment overseeing spoiled children and the corrupting influence of wealth.
The Prisoner of Zenda
Anthony Hope
22 days •
ⓘ 1894 • On the very eve of the coronation of King Rudolf of Ruritania, a desperate plot to disrupt the succession leaves the future king dangerously ill. In order to prevent a usurper from taking power, a decoy is sought.
Lady Susan
Jane Austen
10 days •
ⓘ 1871 • The witty and beautiful Lady Susan Vernon has recently been widowed, and now seeks to find the best possible second marriage for herself. An unforgettable and perhaps unique character amongst 19th century literature.
Villette
Charlotte Bronte
76 days •
ⓘ 1853 • Fleeing an unhappy life in England, Lucy Snowe starts anew in the cosmopolitan French city of Villette. Her desire for independence soon faces two tests in the form of a worldly doctor and autocratic schoolmaster.
A Damsel in Distress
P.G. Wodehouse
32 days •
ⓘ 1919 • Golf-loving George Bevan falls in love with a mysterious woman who falls into his life. As he tries to track her down, mistaken identities lead to hilarity.
A Room with a View
E.M. Forster
28 days •
ⓘ 1908 • While traveling in Italy, Lucy Honeychurch finds her affections torn between two men: one a socially acceptable match, the other her true love.
Ramona
Helen Hunt Jackson
59 days •
ⓘ 1884 • The story of Ramona, an orphan, in Old California after the Mexcian-American War as cultures clash. She struggles against racial discrimination, love, and murder.
The Romance of the Forest
Ann Radcliffe
53 days •
ⓘ 1791 • Placed under the protection of a family fleeing paris, Adeline finds herself in a sinister ruined abbey filled with horrors of the past. A suspenseful Gothic novel.
The Lady with the Dog
Anton Chekhov
3 days •
ⓘ 1899 • An adulterous affair at a summer beach town becomes something more in this classic short story, deemed by Vladimir Nabokov the greatest ever written.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
D.H. Lawrence
41 days •
ⓘ 1928 • Banned until 1960 for its explicit depictions of sex and use of then-banned words, Lawrence's story follows the affair between a working class man and an upper class woman.
To Have and to Hold
Mary Johnston
42 days •
ⓘ 1899 • As the fledging colony of Jamestown struggles to survive, Ralph endeavors to win the love of his new wife Jocelyn despite pirates and the plots of her enraged betrothed.
The Virginian
Owen Wister
48 days •
ⓘ 1902 • Into the harsh world of the unruled American West rides the solitary Virginian whose iron will is put to the test against love, betrayal, and life in the Wyoming territory.
Summer
Edith Wharton
22 days •
ⓘ 1917 • Praised for its realism in depicting a young woman's sexual awakening, Wharton's novel follows Charity Royall through her passionate love affair and into the resulting hardships.
Wives and Daughters
Elizabeth Gaskell
95 days •
ⓘ 1864 • When her father suddenly remarries, the quiet life of Molly Gibson is rocked by the appearance of her new step-sister Cynthia. The narrative follows their lives and explores the role of women, Darwinism, and the hypocrisy of male moral authority.
Dangerous Liaisons
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
46 days •
ⓘ 1782 • In the decadence of the French aristocracy before the Revolution, two rivals use seduction to humiliate and take revenge upon others.
Manon Lescaut
Abbé Prévost
22 days •
ⓘ 1731 • Banned after its original publication in France, this is the scandalous story of Chevalier des Grieux who turns his back on his family and noble background for Manon Lescaut.
Love and Friendship and Other Early Works
Jane Austen
13 days •
ⓘ 1790 • A collection of stories written by Jane Austen from the ages of 11 through 18. Includes the epistolary "Love and Freindship" and "The History of England."
The Girl from Montana
Grace Livingston Hill
22 days •
ⓘ 1907 • Elizabeth, fleeing the threats of a hateful man in Montana, sets out on her own to the unknown East.
The Mysterious Rider
Zane Grey
34 days •
ⓘ 1920 • Columbine is unhappily destined to marry a drunk brute, despite her love for another man. Into this mess enters a mysterious gunslinger.
The Blue Lagoon
Henry De Vere Stacpoole
22 days •
ⓘ 1908 • Two children, shipwrecked on a beautiful island, grow up together in isolation. A classic romance of innocent love.
Tom Jones
Henry Fielding
113 days •
ⓘ 1749 • Tom Jones, a foundling with a mysterious past, is banished to London to find love, adventure, danger, and more in this classic comic novel of 18th century life.
Fanshawe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
14 days •
ⓘ 1828 • Both strapping Edwards and reclusive Fanshawe seek to win the love of Ellen, but a third mysterious suitor arrives with dark intentions. Hawthorne's first novel.
A Lady Of Quality
Frances Hodgson Burnett
29 days •
ⓘ 1896 • A dark, melodramatic historical romance following Clorinda's tumultuous upbringing and challenging life.
Noli Me Tángere
José Rizal
48 days •
ⓘ 1887 • English translation of Philippines hero José Rizal's novel spotlighting the inequality of the Spanish Catholic priests and the ruling government.
Shirley
Charlotte Bronte
70 days •
ⓘ 1849 • The tale of two women - the wealthy vivacious Shirley Keeldar and the oppressed shy Caroline Helstone - in a combination of social commentary with the literary style that made Jane Eyre so popular.
The Sheik
Edith Maude Hull
28 days •
ⓘ 1919 • Diana Mayo sets off on a month-long journey through the Algerian desert, but is soon captured by a mysterious Sheik.
The Garden of God
Henry De Vere Stacpoole
23 days •
ⓘ 1923 • A sequel to The Blue Lagoon, Arthur of the Raratonga discovers his shipwrecked son and niece and their child upon the ocean and determines to return to their island refuge.
Rupert of Hentzau
Anthony Hope
22 days •
ⓘ 1898 • A swashbuckling adventure taking place after The Prisoner of Zenda amidst the intrigue of Ruritania's royal family.
The Enchanted Barn
Grace Livingston Hill
28 days •
ⓘ 1917 • Shirley and her family move into the country, transforming a barn into a home. But their landlord is no ordinary man.
Beauty and the Beast
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve
13 days •
ⓘ 1740 • The classic fairy tale of Beauty and her imprisonment in the enchanted castle of a cursed beast.
An Old-Fashioned Girl
Louisa May Alcott
35 days •
ⓘ 1869 • Can country girl Polly's "simple" ways survive a clash with the wealthy, sophisticated, urban Shaw family?
First Love
Ivan Turgenev
8 days •
ⓘ 1860 • The story of a young man who falls in love with an older woman, running through a gauntlet of emotions from joy and devotion to jealousy and despair.
Framley Parsonage
Anthony Trollope
62 days •
ⓘ 1860 • Young vicar Mark Robarts' morals are put to the test when he and his family settle into the village of Framley in Barsetshire.
Lorna Doone
R.D. Blackmore
84 days •
ⓘ 1869 • In 17th century England, John Ridd navigates ancestral feuds and the tumult of national revolution torn between revenge for his murdered father and love for the mysterious Lorna.
Wired Love
Ella Cheever Thayer
17 days •
ⓘ 1880 • Romance is sparked across telegraph lines between people who have not even seen one another. Can you imagine?
The Black Moth
Georgette Heyer
33 days •
ⓘ 1921 • Miss Diana Beauleigh is rescued from danger by a mysterious highwayman with a tragic past.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
William Blake
4 days •
ⓘ 1790 • A collection of poetry satirizing religion, following the author’s descent to hell.
Howards End
E.M. Forster
40 days •
ⓘ 1910 • At a Hertfordshire estate called Howards End, three families on different rungs of the social ladder strive and reach out to one another.
Green Mansions
W.H. Hudson
28 days •
ⓘ 1904 • After being driven into the jungles of Venezuela, Abel finds an unknown group of aboriginal people and falls in love with Rima the Bird Girl.
The Mark of Zorro
Johnston McCulley
22 days •
ⓘ 1919 • Hidden behind a mask, a deadly swordsman rides the highways of old California dealing justice to a corrupt governor and his army.
The Black Arrow
Robert Louis Stevenson
30 days •
ⓘ 1888 • In the midst of the War of the Roses, Dick Shelton finds his loyalties tested as secret fellowships, shipwrecks, murder, love, and war storm into his life.
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
Joseph Bédier
9 days •
ⓘ 1900 • The medieval tragedy of a forbidden romance between Cornish knight Trisan and Iseult, an Irish princess. A likely influence of Arthurian romance.
The Rainbow
D.H. Lawrence
59 days •
ⓘ 1915 • Follow three generations of the Brangwens, a vigorous family settled in the rural Midlands of England, from humble local beginnings to a larger industrial world.
Lady Athlyne
Bram Stoker
39 days •
ⓘ 1908 • A joke and impersonation bring together Joy Ogilvie and Lord Athlyne from half a world away, leading to romance, misadventures, and deadly duels.
Fantomina
Eliza Haywood
4 days •
ⓘ 1725 • A "lady of distinguished birth, beauty, wit, and spirit" disguises herself to repeatedly manipulate and seduce the same man.
The Torrents of Spring
Ernest Hemingway
8 days •
ⓘ 1926 • A parody of the world of writers, satirizing tendencies from D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson and others that Hemingway refused to follow.
A Sicilian Romance
Ann Radcliffe
21 days •
ⓘ 1790 • Murder, secret tunnels, haunted castles, and miraculous discoveries await Julia as she tries to escape an unwanted marriage in this Gothic classic.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Anita Loos
12 days •
ⓘ 1925 • In the midst of the Roaring Twenties, charming gold digger Lorelei Lee chronicles her journey from New York through Europe amidst humorous encounters with her "gentleman friends."
These Old Shades
Georgette Heyer
33 days •
ⓘ 1926 • Dark pasts, intrigue, and secret identities swirl in this Georgian romance in which the notorious Duke of Avon happens upon the means of revenge in the form of a young runaway.
Daddy-Long-Legs
Jean Webster
14 days •
ⓘ 1912 • An unknown millionaire pays for orphan Jerusha’s education with simple, yet mysterious, requirements placed upon her. Who is her shadowy benefactor?
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