Romance Books

Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded

Samuel Richardson

Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded is an epistolary novel by English writer Samuel Richardson, first published in 1740. It tells the story of a 15-year-old maidservant named Pamela Andrews, whose employer, M..

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

Giacomo Casanova

Histoire de ma vie is both the memoir and autobiography of Giacomo Casanova, a famous 18th-century Italian adventurer. A previous, bowdlerized version was originally known in English as The Memoirs of..

The valley of vision

Henry van Dyke

The Valley of Vision : A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales written by Henry Van Dyke, an American author, educator, and clergyman. The collection of stories include A remembered dream..

The Rainbow

D. H. Lawrence

The Rainbow is one of the 13 novels written by D.H. Lawrence, the renowned English author who's work has been called everything from "smut" to "pure genius." This work and its sequel (Women in Love) r..

The Blithedale Romance

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Blithedale Romance is Nathaniel Hawthorne's third major romance. In Hawthorne, Henry James called it "the lightest, the brightest, the liveliest" of Hawthorne's "unhumorous fictions"...

Villette

Charlotte Brontë

Villette is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte Brontë. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the fictional French-speaking ..

Anne of Avonlea

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne of Avonlea is a Canadian and American novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery. It was first published in 1909. Following Anne of Green Gables (1908), the book covers the second chapter in the life of ..

The Adventures of Arabella

Charlotte Lennox

The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella is a novel written by Charlotte Lennox imitating and parodying the ideas of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. Published in 1752, two years after she ..