Romance Books
A Burlesque Autobiography
Mark TwainMark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance is an 1871 book by American author Mark Twain. Published by Sheldon & Co. in 1871, the book consists of two short stories: "A Burlesque Aut..
Emma
Jane AustenEmma Woodhouse is the "handsome, clever, and rich" character from Jane Austen's classic novel of manners. Set in early 19th century England, Emma is considered a comic masterpiece. It follows the hero..
Mansfield Park
Jane AustenMansfield Park is Jane Austen's 1814 novel featuring one Fanny Price, a young woman with no social power. She barely exists, even to the people she knows - and her family generally keeps in her place...
Northanger Abbey
Jane AustenNorthanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, in 1803. However, it was not published until after her death in 1817, along with another novel of hers, Persuasi..
Persuasion
Jane AustenPersuasion is the last novel fully completed by Jane Austen. It was published at the end of 1817, six months after her death. The story concerns Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of 27 years, whose fa..
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James JoyceIn 1916, at the age of thirty-two, James Joyce published the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The work would establish Joyce as a leader in the movement know as lit..
The Mad King
Edgar Rice BurroughsThe Mad King is a Ruritanian romance by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, originally published in two parts as "The Mad King" and "Barney Custer of Beatrice" in All-Story Weekly, in 1914 and 1915,..
The Battle of Life - A Love Story
Charles DickensThe Battle of Life: A Love Story is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in 1846. It is the fourth of his five "Christmas Books", coming after The Cricket on the Hearth and followed by The Ha..