Romance Books

The Winter's Tale

William Shakespeare

The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies, some modern editors have relabelled the play as one of S..

A Burlesque Autobiography

Mark Twain

Mark 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 Austen

Emma 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 Austen

Mansfield 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 Austen

Northanger 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 Austen

Persuasion 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 Joyce

In 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 Burroughs

The 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,..