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Romance.

From Jane Austen’s sparkling courtships to Edith Wharton’s layered affairs of the heart, our Romance collection is a trove of loves that linger. These stories—filled with slow-burning glances, sharp banter, and tender hope—invite you to believe in the quiet magic of connection. Curl up with a beloved classic or discover a forgotten gem, and let these timeless tales remind you why love stories always find their way home.

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Little Women

Little Women

Four sisters come of age in a world of scraped knees and secret ambitions, where the warmth of family cushions every fall.

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Emma

Emma

Emma Woodhouse, convinced of her matchmaking prowess, navigates the social intricacies of Highbury with wit and charm—until her meddling unravels unexpected consequences.

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Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

A governess with a fierce heart navigates love, loss, and the shadows of Thornfield Hall.

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Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is the enduring classic of wit, courtship, social pressure, misjudgment, and the gradual correction of first impressions.

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Tristram of Blent

Tristram of Blent

Anthony Hope turns inheritance, secrecy, and divided loyalties into a swift Edwardian romance of identity, estate politics, and emotional calculation.

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A Princess of Mars

A Princess of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs launches his Barsoom saga with a fast, vivid planetary romance of duels, deserts, war, and improbable love.

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A Heart-Song of To-day

A Heart-Song of To-day

A novel of the heart from an earlier era, by Annie Gregg Savigny.

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An Old Man's Love

An Old Man's Love

Anthony Trollope's last completed novel, a quiet, tender study of an ageing man's love for his young ward and the claims that youth and honour make on the heart.

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The Knights of the Cross, or, Krzyzacy: Historical Romance

The Knights of the Cross, or, Krzyzacy: Historical Romance

Henryk Sienkiewicz's sweeping medieval epic of Poland and the Teutonic Knights, culminating in the clash of arms that would decide a kingdom's fate.

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The Rosary

The Rosary

A tender, enormously popular romance about love tested by pride, appearance, and the slow work of the heart.

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Two on a Tower

Two on a Tower

Thomas Hardy's poignant novel of a love that reaches across barriers of class and age, played out beneath the vast indifference of the stars.

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One Woman

One Woman

A novel centred on a single woman and the course of her life, love, and struggles.

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Age of Innocence

Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a sophisticated classic about desire, marriage, social performance, and the hidden costs of respectability in Gilded Age New York.

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Only a girl's love

Only a girl's love

A tender romance in the popular Victorian tradition, following the trials and devotion of a young woman's heart against obstacles of class and circumstance.

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Love-at-arms : $b being a narrative excerpted from the chronicles of Urbino, during the dominion of the high and mighty

Love-at-arms : $b being a narrative excerpted from the chronicles of Urbino, during the dominion of the high and mighty

Rafael Sabatini's swashbuckling historical romance set in Renaissance Italy: a tale of honour, love, and intrigue among the courts and condottieri of Urbino, told with the master s

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The Heather-Moon

The Heather-Moon

A romance carried along by open roads, wild landscapes and the pull of the heart, told in the graceful, atmospheric style of an earlier age of popular fiction.

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Set in Silver

Set in Silver

A charming period romance of travel and courtship, in which a journey becomes the setting for misunderstanding, disguise and the slow blossoming of love.

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The rose of old St. Louis

The rose of old St. Louis

A historical romance set in old St.

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Under the Red Dragon

Under the Red Dragon

A Victorian adventure novel of soldiering, love and loyalty, its title carrying the red dragon of a regimental banner into war and romance.

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Just Around the Corner: Romance en casserole

Just Around the Corner: Romance en casserole

A collection of warm, humane short stories of ordinary city life and the small dramas of the heart, finding romance and feeling in the everyday corners of the modern world.

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The Real Adventure

The Real Adventure

A novel of a young woman seeking a life of her own beyond the expected roles of marriage and comfort.

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Letters of Two Brides

Letters of Two Brides

Balzac's epistolary novel following two convent friends into contrasting marriages, one of passion, one of prudence.

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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

Sir Philip Sidney's sprawling pastoral romance sends disguised princes into a green world of shepherds, love and danger, blending adventure, poetry and courtly ideals in one of the

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The Green Mouse

The Green Mouse

Robert W.

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That Which Hath Wings

That Which Hath Wings

A wartime novel of love, loss and endurance, its title borrowed from scripture, following characters whose lives are caught up in the shadow of a great conflict.

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Quintus Claudius

Quintus Claudius

A historical romance of imperial Rome, bringing the intrigues, splendour, and dangers of the ancient city to life.

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The Gay Cockade

The Gay Cockade

A collection of short stories in the popular romantic style of the early twentieth century, gathering tales of love, sentiment, and everyday life.

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The Place of Honeymoons

The Place of Honeymoons

A romantic novel of love, travel and adventure from the popular fiction of its era.

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A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill

A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill

Alice Hegan Rice, author of Mrs.

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The Passionate Friends

The Passionate Friends

H.G.

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Camille

Camille

Alexandre Dumas fils turns an affair between a courtesan and a young bourgeois lover into a tragic novel of love, sacrifice, class judgment, and social performance.

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A pair of blue eyes

A pair of blue eyes

One of Thomas Hardy's early novels, a tale of love and social divide set against the dramatic cliffs of the Cornish coast.

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Erotica Romana

Erotica Romana

A cycle of elegies celebrating love, sensuality, and the intoxication of Rome, by one of the giants of European letters.

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The Romance of Tristan and Iseult

The Romance of Tristan and Iseult

The great medieval love story retold with grace and passion: a knight, a queen, a fatal potion, and a love that defies king, honour, and death itself, one of the founding legends o

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The Blue Lagoon

The Blue Lagoon

Henry De Vere Stacpoole's famous romance of two children shipwrecked on a Pacific island, who grow to adulthood in innocent isolation and discover love, nature and the pull of the

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Moods

Moods

A nineteenth-century American novel of the inner life, tracing a young woman's shifting temperament as she navigates love, marriage, and the pull of conflicting affections.

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Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship

Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship

A gathering of Victorian short fiction on the theme of courtship, in which love is pursued, tested and negotiated within the manners, hopes and constraints of nineteenth-century En

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Hypnerotomachia

Hypnerotomachia

A strange and sumptuous Renaissance dream-romance, in which a lover wanders through allegorical landscapes of ruins, gardens, and enigmatic architecture in pursuit of his beloved.

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Cynthia's Chauffeur

Cynthia's Chauffeur

A light romantic adventure from the early motoring age, in which a young woman's journey by automobile leads to entanglements of the heart.

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The Silent Barrier

The Silent Barrier

Louis Tracy’s alpine romance-thriller of chance encounter, concealed motive, social performance, and danger in the high Engadine.

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Sonnets from the Portuguese

Sonnets from the Portuguese

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's celebrated sequence of love sonnets, among the most cherished in English.

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I am a woman

I am a woman

A book announced by its title as a statement of self and identity.

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Lorna Doone

Lorna Doone

R.

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Doctor Cupid

Doctor Cupid

A romantic novel of the Victorian era, tracing the entanglements and misunderstandings of love among its characters.

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Eloisa : $b or, A series of original letters

Eloisa : $b or, A series of original letters

An epistolary work told through a series of letters, in the eighteenth-century tradition of the novel in correspondence, unfolding its story and sentiment through the exchange of w

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The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux's haunting gothic romance of a disfigured musical genius who haunts the Paris Opera and fixes his obsession on a young soprano.

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The Car of Destiny

The Car of Destiny

A romance of motoring and intrigue from the golden age of the automobile, when the open road promised adventure, mystery and love.

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The Passionate Elopement

The Passionate Elopement

Compton Mackenzie's elegant first novel, a witty and stylish period romance set in an eighteenth-century spa town.

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Manon Lescaut

Manon Lescaut

The Abbé Prévost's famous tale of a young man's ruinous passion for the beautiful, faithless Manon.

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Linnet

Linnet

A novel following its heroine, Linnet, through the fortunes of love and circumstance.

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The Romance of Lust

The Romance of Lust

A notorious work of Victorian erotic fiction, published anonymously and long circulated underground.

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Robert Orange

Robert Orange

A late-Victorian novel of society, conscience, and thwarted feeling by the writer known as John Oliver Hobbes.

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That Girl Montana

That Girl Montana

A story of the American West and a spirited young heroine, set against frontier country where identity, belonging and the past all come into play.

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The Sorrows of Young Werther

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Goethe's incendiary early novel lays bare the anguished heart of a sensitive young man consumed by hopeless love, a work that gripped a generation, defined literary Romanticism and

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Henrietta Temple

Henrietta Temple

Benjamin Disraeli's romance follows a young heir who falls suddenly and completely in love, only to find passion at war with debt, duty, and circumstance.

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The Monk

The Monk

Matthew Lewis's notorious Gothic novel, a lurid, gripping tale of a revered monk undone by temptation, in which piety collapses into obsession, corruption and supernatural terror.

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The Sex Life of the Gods

The Sex Life of the Gods

A provocative title from the mid-century paperback tradition, blending myth and pulp appetite.

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Thuvia, maid of Mars

Thuvia, maid of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs returns to Barsoom for a swift tale of a Martian princess, a lovestruck prince, telepathic beasts and phantom armies across the dying red planet.

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Four Arthurian Romances

Four Arthurian Romances

Chrétien de Troyes's foundational tales of Arthur's court — knightly quests, courtly love and moral trial from the poet who shaped the Round Table for all who followed.

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A Honeymoon in Space

A Honeymoon in Space

George Griffith sends newlyweds beyond Earth for a fin-de-siècle voyage through the solar system, mixing wonder, satire, and early spacefaring imagination.

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The Complete Works of Jane Austen

The Complete Works of Jane Austen

The complete works of Jane Austen gathered in one volume, from Pride and Prejudice to Emma and Persuasion, the full range of her wit, irony, and unmatched understanding of the huma

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Carmen

Carmen

Prosper Mérimée’s compact novella of obsession, freedom, jealousy, and fatal desire gave the world one of literature’s most enduring heroines.

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The Mysteries of Udolpho

The Mysteries of Udolpho

Ann Radcliffe's landmark Gothic novel, in which a young woman, orphaned and imperilled, is carried to a brooding Italian castle where terror, mystery and the power of the imaginati

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The Enchanted April

The Enchanted April

Elizabeth von Arnim's radiant novel of four very different Englishwomen who share a medieval Italian castle for a month, and find themselves gently transformed.

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The Blue Castle

The Blue Castle

L.

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A Room with a View

A Room with a View

A Room with a View by E.

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The Black Tulip

The Black Tulip

Alexandre Dumas turns seventeenth-century Holland, political danger, and tulip fever into a fast-moving historical adventure.

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Sanditon

Sanditon

Jane Austen's tantalising final work, left unfinished at her death.

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The Watsons

The Watsons

Jane Austen's unfinished novel follows Emma Watson, raised in comfort and returned to a struggling family, as she navigates a country neighbourhood's marriages and manoeuvres.

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Love and Freindship

Love and Freindship

Jane Austen wrote this gleeful spoof of sentimental fiction as a teenager, and its fainting heroines and absurd coincidences reveal the razor wit that would later power her great n

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Lady Susan

Lady Susan

Jane Austen's sly early novella, told entirely in letters, follows a beautiful, scheming widow as she manipulates suitors and society, giving Austen her most deliciously wicked her

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Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park

Austen’s morally exacting novel of family influence, social ambition, performance, and the quiet resilience of Fanny Price.

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Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen’s playful satire of Gothic fiction, following Catherine Morland from naïve fantasy toward sharper judgment.

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Shakespeare's Sonnets

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Shakespeare's Sonnets are love letters to the human condition—each verse a razor-sharp meditation on desire, mortality, and the ache of time.

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Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

Two star-crossed lovers ignite a forbidden passion that threatens to consume their warring families.

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Persuasion

Persuasion

Jane Austen’s final completed novel returns to love after loss, measuring regret, constancy, and second chances with extraordinary emotional poise.

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Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility

In 'Sense and Sensibility,' Jane Austen masterfully contrasts the lives of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, sisters navigating love and loss in a society that prizes propriety above p

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Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë’s 'Wuthering Heights' is a tempest of love and revenge, set against the wild Yorkshire moors.

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