Romance
The Scottish Chiefs
The Scottish Chiefs is a historical adventure novel that brings to life the legendary figure of William Wallace, a Scottish hero who fought …
The Great Gatsby
Set in 1925, this is a novel of the Jazz Age; of ambition, of the careless rich, of wild parties and flappers and bootleg booze; and the eff…
Women in Love
Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and fol…
Flowing Gold
Unfairly given a dishonorable discharge from the army, Calvin Gray goes to Dallas, where he manages to win the trust of a jeweler and is abl…
The Daughter of the Commandant
"The Daughter of the Commandant" (better known as "The Captain's Daughter") is a historical novel by the Russian writer …
The Rose Garden Husband
This novel was written by Margaret Widdemer, who won the Pulitzer prize for her collection of poetry in 1919. Phyllis is a 25-years-old chi…
Black Heart and White Heart
Black Heart and White Heart transports listeners to the tumultuous era of King Cetywayo, where love and cultural conflict intertwine. This p…
Marion Fay
Marion Fay (1882) offers a pair of romances, each involving a match between one titled personage and one commoner. The misalliances lead to …
The Innocents
“Mr. and Mrs. Seth Appleby were almost old. They called each other 'Father' and 'Mother.' But frequently they were guilty of holding hands, …
The Masquerader
The Masquerader is one of two Katherine Cecil Thurston’s books that appeared on the Publisher’s Weekly best-seekers list in 1905 (The other,…
Emma
A cautionary tale about the evils of interference, matchmaking and good intentions turned awry, Emma is the study of a young woman raised wi…
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling
Tom Jones is considered one of the first prose works describable as a novel. The novel is divided into 18 smaller books. Tom Jones is a foun…
Persuasion
"All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone." In persuasion, her …
A Spinner in the Sun
Myrtle Reed may always be depended upon to write a story in which poetry, charm, tenderness and humor are combined into a clever and enterta…
The Evil Genius
The Evil Genius, one of Wilkie Collins' last works, is subtitled "A Domestic Scene". It is the intriguing tale of family Linley, i…
Kathleen
A group called the Scorpions, eight Oxford undergraduates, find a letter Kathleen wrote a letter to Joe at Oxford. They build up an image of…
Dead Love Has Chains
We see another facet of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's amazing talent in Dead Love Has Chains, written in her seventies. Focusing on character and…
The Sacred Herb
A rich playboy comes home from travels abroad and is bully-ragged by his eccentric aunt into finding meaning for his life. This he does by h…
Felix Holt, The Radical
"Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mother's distress), while Felix Holt is …
The Phantom of the Opera
Over the years, strange things have been happening at the Paris Opéra House. The new owners, M. Moncharmin and M. Richard don't know …