Romance Books

The Portrait of a Lady, vol 2

Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is considered a masterpiece by critics and fans alike. It was first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1880–81, and then as a book in 1881. Set prim..

Fantasia of the Unconscious

D. H. Lawrence

Fantasia of the Unconscious, Lawrence explores the psychological terrain of the day in a way that is unscientific and plainly fascist. It is his answer to Freudian psychology, and not a very good one ..

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton

A well written story about whether one is formed by their circumstances or by their inner sense of self. The book kept me from cover to cover. Highly recommend it to those looking for a departure from..

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Idiot is Dostoevsky's brilliant 1869 novel about a poor nobelman, Prince Myshkin, who has recently been released from a Swiss sanatorium where he was treated for epilepsy. Despite his destitution,..

North and South

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

North and South is a social novel published in 1855 by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. With Wives and Daughters (1865) and Cranford (1853), it is one of her best-known novels and was adapted for tel..

The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot

The Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), first published in three volumes in 1860 by William Blackwood. The first American edition was published by Harper & Brothers, Pub..

This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise is the debut novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was published in 1920. Taking its title from a line of Rupert Brooke's poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality o..

Swann's Way

Marcel Proust

Swann’s Way is one of seven books that comprise In Search of Lost Time, unique in fiction for its sustained fullness of thought and richness of characterization. Though In Search of Lost Time is satur..