Romance Books

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre is a Gothic romance novel by Charlotte Bronte, published in London in 1847. It follows the willful and passionate orphan Jane through her neglected childhood, her education at a strict girls..

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens follows the life of Pip, an orphan who is a semi-autobiographical representation of Dickens himself. The novel is considered a bildungsroman, or a coming of age s..

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

A masterpiece of English literature, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice follows the life of Elizabeth Bennet as she maneuvers the obstacles of society: manners, morality, education and marriage in earl..

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

Emily Brontë went to her grave the year after her first and only novel was published in 1847, and since wasn't a hit that year, she would never know what an enduring masterpiece of Gothic fiction Wuth..

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), is the Russian author famous for exploring psychological and existential depths in his work, most notably in The Brothers Karamazov and this here Crime and Punishment. I..

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott is a beloved portrait of an American family during the latter half of the 19th century. The March family patriarch engaged in the Civil War as a chaplain in the Union..

The Beautiful and the Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Beautiful and the Damned is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second book, published in 1922, which portrays the lives of a young, wealthy, and pleasure-seeking couple, Anthony and Gloria Patch. Anthony is he..

Anna Karenina

Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy

Considered "the greatest novel of all time," Tolstoy's Anna Karenina was published in serial form between the years 1873 and 1877. It opens with the famous line "Happy families are all alike; every un..