Romance Books

Trilby

George Du Maurier

Trilby is a novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time. Trilby O'Ferrall, the novel's heroine, is a half-Irish girl working in Paris as an artists' model and laundress; ..

A Modern Instance

William Dean Howells

A Modern Instance is a realistic novel written by William Dean Howells. The novel is about the deterioration of a once loving marriage under the influence of capitalistic greed. It is the first Americ..

The Wall Between

Sara Ware Bassett

The Wall Between is a love story written by Sara Ware Bassett , an American author of fiction and nonfiction. Her novels primarily deal with New England characters, and most of them are set in two fic..

Adam Bede

George Eliot

Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected..

The Gift of the Magi

O. Henry

The Gift of the Magi is a short story by O. Henry first published in 1905. The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each ot..

Oblomov

Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov

Oblomov is the second novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is the central character of the novel, portrayed as the ultimate incarnation of the superfluo..

The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance

Robert Service

The north wind is keening overhead. It minds me of the howl of a wolf-dog under the Arctic stars. Sitting alone by the glow of the great peat fire I can hear it high up in the braeside firs. It is the..

Ivanhoe

Sir Walter Scott

Ivanhoe is a historical novel written by Sir Walter Scott in 1819. Set in 12th-century England, Ivanhoe caused a resurgence in the popularity of the Romantic and Medieval ages. In it Scott recreates t..