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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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Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

The complete lyric world of Scotland's national poet, from tender love songs to biting satire.

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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.

From $8.50

India's Love Lyrics

India's Love Lyrics

Lush, longing, unmistakably late-Victorian verse of romance and India, written under the name Laurence Hope.

$8.50

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

$9.50

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.

$9.50

Phaedrus

Phaedrus

Plato's luminous dialogue on love, beauty, and the written word, staged as a conversation beneath a plane tree by the Ilissus.

$9.00

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.

$9.50

Erotica Romana

Erotica Romana

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

$8.50

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

$9.50

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.

$8.50

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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Symposium

Symposium

A drinking party in ancient Athens becomes a contest of speeches in praise of love.

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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.

$9.50

Linnet

Linnet

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

$9.50

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Shakespeare’s moonlit comedy mixes lovers, fairies, artisans, and theatrical mischief in one of the most durable plays of enchantment and confusion.

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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.

$9.50

The Blue Castle

The Blue Castle

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Martin Eden

Martin Eden

Jack London’s ambitious novelist-hero climbs through class aspiration, self-education, romantic idealism, and social disillusion in a fierce modern classic of literary ambition.

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Far from the Madding Crowd

Far from the Madding Crowd

Thomas Hardy's beloved pastoral drama.

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Villette

Villette

A reserved young Englishwoman takes a teaching post in a foreign city and confronts loneliness, longing and a fiercely guarded heart.

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Giovanni's Room

Giovanni's Room

James Baldwin's spare, aching Paris novel follows an American adrift between a fiancée and a bartender named Giovanni, anatomising shame, desire and the ruin that self-denial leave

$16.99

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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Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina

A woman risks everything for passion in a world that demands her obedience.

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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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