Romance
Dawn of the Morning
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Grace Livingston Hill
Fresh from school, mistreated and neglected by her father and stepmother, sixteen-year-old Dawn consents to marry a friend of her father's w…
The Amazing Interlude
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
It is the early days of The Great War. As the curtain rises, Sara Lee is sitting by the fire in her aunt and uncle’s home, knitting a baby a…
The Amethyst Box
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Anna Katharine Green
On the evening before his marriage, Sinclair loses a precious curiosity from his collection: an amethyst box, containing a tiny flask of dea…
Miss Mackenzie
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Anthony Trollope
The thirty-five year-old (hence utterly over-the-hill) Miss Margaret Mackenzie, having devoted her life to others, suddenly finds herself wi…
Venus and Adonis
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William Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis is Shakespeare's narrative poem about the love of the goddess Venus for the mortal youth Adonis, dedicated partly to his pa…
When a Man Marries
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
A divorced playboy hosts a dinner party complete with a stand in wife to placate his aunt who financially supports him. When his chef is hos…
The Return of the Soldier
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Rebecca West
In 1916 on an isolated country estate just outside London, Captain Chris Baldry, a shell-shocked captain suffering from amnesia, makes a bit…
John Marchmont's Legacy
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Like Wuthering Heights, the center of this story is a dramatic love triangle, the setting is a huge English manor. Olivia Marchmont has alwa…
Poor Miss Finch
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Wilkie Collins
“Poor Miss Finch.” That is what everyone calls the courageous protagonist of this book. In other words, “poor thing, she’s blind, isn’t it a…
Mary Marie
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Eleanor H. Porter
A charming 'coming of age' story about a young girl, Mary Marie, whose young life is thrown into turmoil as her parents divorce. As she lead…
A Room with a View
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E. M. Forster
A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian era England. S…
Pride and Prejudice
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Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, a comedy of manners and marriage, is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels. In this dramatic adaption by Mary Keith M…
Fenton's Quest
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
This story revolves around Gilbert Fenton, a very talented middle class businessman from London, who falls in love with a beautiful country …
Flower of the North
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James Oliver Curwood
Flower of the North finds Philip Whittemore on an adventure which takes him up the Churchill River of northern Canada to a land which he tho…
The Enchanted April
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Elizabeth Von Arnim
It’s a dreary February in post-World War I London when Mrs. Wilkins spots an advertisement in The Times for a small Italian castle for rent …
First Love
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Ivan Turgenev
The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The "boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her" story is universal but not, …
Eugene Onéguine
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Alexander Pushkin
Eugene Oneguine is a classic of Russian literature, and its eponymous protagonist has served as the model for a number of Russian literary h…
Under the Greenwood Tree
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Thomas Hardy
This novel is subtitled The Mellstock Quire, A Rural Painting of the Dutch School. The Quire is the group of musicians who accompany the hym…
Marcia Schuyler
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Grace Livingston Hill
A compelling love triangle. Marcia is young & sweet. Her older sister Kate is vain & selfish. Marcia deeply admires the man that Kat…
The Big Blue Soldier
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Grace Livingston Hill
Back from the Great War, a penniless and disillusioned young soldier finds himself in the home of Miss Marilla Chadwick, a sweet old lady wh…