Romance Books
The Broken Cup
Heinrich ZschokkeThe Broken Cup is a collection short stories written by Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke, German, later Swiss, author and reformer. Most of his life was spent, and most of his reputation ear..
The Lost Girl
D. H. LawrenceThe Lost Girl is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1920. It was awarded the 1920 James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the fiction category. Lawrence started it shortly after writing Women in..
The Moon and Sixpence
W. Somerset MaughamThis Maugham novel is based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told by the narrator as he gradually comes to know the main character Charles Strickland, a middle aged stock broker. ..
The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby
Charles DickensNicholas Nickleby; or, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is a novel by Charles Dickens. Originally published as a serial from 1838 to 1839, it was Dickens's third novel. The novel centres o..
The Woman in White
Wilkie CollinsThe Woman in White is Wilkie Collins' fifth published novel, written in 1859. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first in the genre of "sensatio..
Endymion - A Poetic Romance
John KeatsEndymion is a poem by John Keats first published in 1818 by Taylor and Hessey of Fleet Street in London. It begins with the line "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever". Endymion is written in rhyming c..
Three Weeks
Elinor GlynThree weeks was Elinor Glyn's most popular and most scandalous book, published in 1907, and made into an even more scandalous movie in 1914. The book follows Paul Verdayne, who thinks himself passiona..
The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefwazi
Sir Richard Francis BurtonA fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of literature. The book presents opinions on what qualities men and women should have to be attractive, gives advice on sexual technique, warnings about ..