Romance Books

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..

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

The second novel by Dickens, and considered one of his best, Oliver Twist is the story of an orphan boy who is essentially born into an English workhouse. There he must suffer the abject miseries of p..

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

Jane Austen (1775-1817) is one of the best known and widely read English novelists out there, and her 1811 book Sense and Sensibility, which she signed anonymously "A Lady," was the book that kicked o..

Women in Love

D. H. Lawrence

Women in Love is a novel by D.H. Lawrence. Deep insight into human relationship: male friendship, sisterhood, love affairs, married life. Death in snow, like drifting into oblivion. English language a..

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

Interesting novel. Enjoyable to read how the French lived alongside the parallel Victorian era. Some absolutely fantastic moments, however, especially in the first part character detachment makes it d..

Flatland

Edwin A. Abbott

Edwin Abbott Abbott's satirical 1884 novella Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, is "on the surface" an examination of multiple dimensions. Its author, writing anonymously as "A Square" takes us o..

A Room With A View

E.M. Forster

E.M. Forster's 1908 novel A Room with a View is a defining romantic tale of one woman's life in a repressed Edwardian England. The novel focuses on social and political issues of the day, especially b..

Howards End

E.M. Forster

Howards End, often mistakenly called Howard's End, has nothing to do with a guy named Howard, nor his "end." Howards End is the setting of E.M. Forster's masterful novel from 1910. The story features ..