Romance Books

Miss Sara Sampson

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Miss Sara Sampson is a play by the Enlightenment philosopher, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Written in 1755 while the author was living in Potsdam, it is seen by many scholars to be one of the first bourg..

A Poor Wise Man

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Mary Roberts Rinehart offers a superb blend of romance and suspense amidst political tensions in this story set in early 20th Century America. The characters are compelling and representative of the v..

Primitive Love and Love-Stories

Henry T. Finck

he new science of anthropology, with its various branches, including sociology, ethnology, and comparative psychology, has within the last two or three decades brought together and discussed an immens..

The Geste of Duke Jocelyn

Jeffery Farnol

The Geste of Duke Jocelyn is a adventurous love story written by Jeffery Farnol, a British writer from 1907 until his death, known for writing more than 40 romance novels, some formulaic and set ..

Phineas Redux

Anthony Trollope

Phineas Finn is the fourth in Trollope's series of six Palliser novels. At the end of Phineas Finn, the second novel in the series, Phineas had returned to Ireland and married his childhood sweetheart..

Le comte de Monte-Cristo, Tome III

Alexandre Dumas

Edmond Dantès, a young seaman with a promising future, is arrested at his wedding ceremony under calomnious charges, and locked up in the Chateau d'If for 14 years. During this time, he secretly meets..

Louise de la Valliere

Alexandre Dumas

After The Three Muskateers and Twenty Years After the adventurous story of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan continues!  The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (French: Le Vicomte de Brag..

The Talisman

Walter Scott

The Talisman is a 1984 fantasy novel by American writers Stephen King and Peter Straub. The plot is not related to that of Walter Scott's 1825 novel of the same name, although there is one oblique ref..