Romance Books

The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefwazi

Sir Richard Francis Burton

A 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 ..

Gevoel en verstand (Sense and Sensibility)

Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1811. It was published anonymously; By A Lady appears on the title page where the author's name might have been. It tells the story of the..

The House in the Mist

Anna Katharine Green

The House in the Mist is a mystery story collection written by Anna Katharine Green, an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished h..

The Island of Regeneration

Cyrus Townsend Brady

The Island of Regeneration is written by Cyrus Townsend Brady a journalist, historian and adventure writer. His best-known work is Indian Fights and Fighters...

The Youth of the Great Elector

Louisa Mühlbach

The Youth of the Great Elector is a historical romance novel written by Louisa Mühlbach. It was the pen name of Clara Mundt (1814 in Neubrandenburg – 1873), a German writer best known for her wor..

The Romance of Tristan and Iseult

Joseph Bédier

Tristan and Iseult is an influential romance story, retold in numerous sources with as many variations since the 12th century. The story is a tragedy about the adulterous love between the Cornish knig..

Venus im Pelz

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Venus im Pelz is the German edition of Venus in Furs, a novella by the Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and the best known of his works. The novel was to be part of an epic series that ..

Father Goriot

Honore de Balzac

Father Goriot is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac, included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Said to have been an i..