Romance Books

The Pretty Sister Of José

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Pretty Sister Of José is a  novella written by Frances Hodgson Burnett, later spawned both a play and silent film adaptation. Despite its public popularity, its (now rather tame) intense love..

The Female Quixote

The novel formally inverts Don Quixote: as the don mistakes himself for the knightly hero of a Romance, so Arabella mistakes herself for the maiden love of a Romance. While the don thinks it his duty ..

Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution

Rafael Sabatini

Scaramouche is a romantic adventure and tells the story of a young aristocrat during the French Revolution. His successive endeavors as a lawyer, politician, actor, lover, and buffoon lead his enemies..

The Innocents - A Story for Lovers

Sinclair Lewis

The Innocents: A Story for Lovers is a married people fiction story written by Sinclair Lewis, an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. He is also the author of books like T..

Two on a Tower

Thomas Hardy

Two on a Tower is a novel by English author Thomas Hardy, classified by him as a romance and fantasy and now regarded as one of his minor works. The book is one of Hardy's Wessex novels, set in a para..

Patchwork - A Story of 'The Plain People'

Anna Balmer Myers

Patchwork: A Story of 'The Plain People' is a novel written by Anna Balmer Myers, an American author of romantic novels featuring the local color of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.Excerpts:Maria Metz ..

The Star-Chamber - An Historical Romance, Volume 1

William Harrison Ainsworth

The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance is a historical fiction work written by William Harrison Ainsworth, an English historical novelist born at King Street in Manchester.A romance with the bac..

The Lion and the Unicorn

Richard Harding Davis

What if figures of animals had lives of their own? If the figures of a lion and a unicorn at the shop across the street could talk, what would they say about the little things in life that they see ev..