Romance Books
Fantasia of the Unconscious
D. H. LawrenceFantasia of the Unconscious, Lawrence explores the psychological terrain of the day in a way that is unscientific and plainly fascist. It is his answer to Freudian psychology, and not a very good one ..
The House of Mirth
Edith WhartonA well written story about whether one is formed by their circumstances or by their inner sense of self. The book kept me from cover to cover. Highly recommend it to those looking for a departure from..
The Idiot
Fyodor DostoyevskyThe Idiot is Dostoevsky's brilliant 1869 novel about a poor nobelman, Prince Myshkin, who has recently been released from a Swiss sanatorium where he was treated for epilepsy. Despite his destitution,..
North and South
Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellNorth and South is a social novel published in 1855 by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. With Wives and Daughters (1865) and Cranford (1853), it is one of her best-known novels and was adapted for tel..
The Mill on the Floss
George EliotThe Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), first published in three volumes in 1860 by William Blackwood. The first American edition was published by Harper & Brothers, Pub..
This Side of Paradise
F. Scott FitzgeraldThis Side of Paradise is the debut novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was published in 1920. Taking its title from a line of Rupert Brooke's poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality o..
Swann's Way
Marcel ProustSwann’s Way is one of seven books that comprise In Search of Lost Time, unique in fiction for its sustained fullness of thought and richness of characterization. Though In Search of Lost Time is satur..
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Henry FieldingThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is both a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. It was fi..