Romance Books

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Henry Fielding

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is both a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. It was fi..

The Quest of the Silver Fleece

W.E.B. Du Bois

"The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel" by W.E.B. Du Bois is a novel that examines American's prejudices during the 20th Century. Zora is a child of the Southern swamp and she falls in love with an ..

Artists' Wives

Alphonse Daudet

Artists' Wives is a romance novel by Alphonse Daudet. Excerpts from the book:Stretched at full length, on the great divan of a studio, cigar in mouth, two friends—a poet and a painter—were talking tog..

Little Men

Louisa May Alcott

Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys, is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1871. The novel reprises characters from Little Women and is considered by some the..

Idylls of the King

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Idylls of the King, published between 1859 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson which retells the legend of King Arthur, his knights, his love for G..

Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight

Anonymous

No Knight of the Round Table has been so highly honoured by the old Romance-writers as Sir Gawayne, the son of Loth, and nephew to the renowned Arthur. They delighted to describe him as Gawayne the go..

Marmion

Sir Walter Scott

Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field is a historical romance in verse of 16th-century Britain by Walter Scott, published in 1808. It concludes with the Battle of Flodden in 1513. It was published in Edinb..

The Wharf by the Docks

Florence Warden

Everybody knows Canterbury, with its Old-World charms and its ostentatious air of being content to be rather behind the times, of looking down upon the hurrying Americans who dash through its cathedra..