Romance Books

Lorna Doone - A Romance of Exmoor

R. D. Blackmore

Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor is a novel by English author Richard Doddridge Blackmore, published in 1869. It is a romance based on a group of historical characters and set in the late 17th century..

The Good Soldier

Ford Madox Ford

The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion by Ford Maddox Ford begins with the famous line "This is the saddest story I have ever heard." It is the tragic tale of an upper-class English couple, Edward Ashbur..

Clarissa Harlowe - Volume I

Samuel Richardson

Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady is an epistolary novel by English writer Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. It tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually th..

Hyperion - A Romance

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hyperion: A Romance is one of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's earliest works, published in 1839. It is a prose romance which was published alongside his first volume of poems, Voices of the Night...

Sonnets from the Portuguese

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese, written ca. 1845–1846 and published first in 1850, is a collection of 44 love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The collection was acclaimed and popular durin..

The Deliverance - A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields

Ellen Glasgow

The Deliverance: A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields is a 1904 novel by American author Ellen Glasgow. It was the second-best selling book in the United States for 1904...

The Confessions

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The writer, composer and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778) was a citizen of Geneva before Switzerland even existed. He's a major contributor to the Romantic movement, and one of the most..

The Light That Failed

Rudyard Kipling

The Light That Failed is a novel by the Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling that was first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine dated January 1891. Most of the novel is set in Lon..