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By: Rex Ellingwood Beach (1877-1949) | |
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Going Some | |
The Ne'er-Do-Well |
By: Rex Beach (1877-1949) | |
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Flowing Gold
Unfairly given a dishonorable discharge from the army, Calvin Gray goes to Dallas, where he manages to win the trust of a jeweler and is able to sell a number of diamonds to the newly oil rich Briskows. He makes friends with the family and helps them adjust to their newly found riches. The Briskows, in turn, help him prove false the charges that caused his dismissal from the army. | |
By: Hamlin Garland (1860-1940) | |
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Wayside Courtships |
By: Temple Bailey (-1953) | |
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Glory of Youth | |
The Trumpeter Swan | |
The Trumpeter Swan |
By: William Hazlitt (1778-1830) | |
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Liber Amoris
Liber Amoris is unlike anything Hazlitt wrote and probably like nothing you've come across before. On the face of it it tells the story of Hazlitt's infatuation with his landlords daughter. Hazlitt was middle aged and she young and pretty, a bit of a coquette from the sound of it. It turned out badly for Hazlitt and the book tells the story of this doomed love. Critics have always been divided about the merit of the piece. Even those who see its merit often feel more comfortable with his polished literary works, and perhaps rightly so... |
By: Elinor Glyn (1864-1943) | |
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Man and Maid | |
Red Hair | |
High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' |
By: Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915) | |
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Little Gray Lady
As every Christmas for the last 20 years, the Little Gray Lady lights a candle in her room and spends the evening alone, thinking of a great mistake she has made so long ago. This year, however, things are to play out differently.. |
By: Susanna Rowson (1762-1824) | |
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Charlotte Temple
Charlotte Temple, a cautionary tale for young women, follows the unfortunate adventures of the eponymous heroine as she is seduced by a dashing soldier, Montraville. Influenced by both her lover and an unruly teacher at her boarding school, she is persuaded to run away to America, where she is eventually abandoned by Montraville after he becomes bored, leaving her alone and pregnant. First published in England in 1791, it went on to become America's bestselling novel, only being ousted by Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. |
By: Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) | |
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The Heart's Highway |
By: Charles Norris Williamson | |
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The Golden Silence
Trying to get away from an engagement he had got himself into more or less against his will, Stephen Knight travels to Algiers to visit his old friend Nevill. On the Journey there he meets the charming and beautiful Victoria. She is on her way to Algiers to search for her sister, who had disappeared years ago after marrying an Arab nobleman. With the support of his friend, Stephen Knight decides to help the girl - but when she also disappears, the adventure begins... | |
A Soldier of the Legion | |
The Lion's Mouse | |
The Heather-Moon | |
Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley | |
Set in Silver | |
The Port of Adventure |
By: May Sinclair (1863-1946) | |
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Life and Death of Harriett Frean
Harriett Frean is a well-to-do, unmarried woman living a life of meaningless dependency, boredom, and unproductivity as she patiently cares for her aging parents, waiting for a man to marry. When her opportunity for Love finally comes, she is offered a moral dilemma: the man is engaged to her best friend. Should she sacrifice what, according to the priorities of the time, seems like her "one chance for happiness," or should she seize the moment? Can she make something meaningful of her life without... | |
The Combined Maze | |
Tysons
Another frank May Sinclair exploration of fin de siècle English love and sex, marriage and adultery, "The Tysons" is the story of the caddish Nevill Tyson and his beautiful but frivolous young wife Molly. Sinclair uses a different narrative voice than we hear in much of her fiction, a sort of witty Jane Austen archness as she dissects the characters of the provincial village Drayton Parva. As always, she demonstrates an intriguing mixture of Victorian prudishness and modern free-thinking, particularly in her rendering of the sexual escapades of her characters... |
By: Amelia E. Barr (1831-1919) | |
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Maid of Maiden Lane
The Maid of Maiden lane is a wonderful love story in which Mrs. Barr intertwines the hot political and social issues that were occurring in America during the last decade of the 18th century with an excellent love story plot. Some of those issues include: the moral dilemma and debate over the French Revolution, and how that event touched the lives of the immigrants in America; the prejudices between the immigrants from England, and those from France or Holland, and how those animosities affected the ordinary lives of the people; and the political debate over titles, foreign policy, and such things(for example)as where the capital of the nation was to reside, New York or Philadelphia... |
By: Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1831-1919) | |
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The Man Between, an International Romance |
By: Sewell Ford (1868-1946) | |
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On With Torchy |
By: A. E. W. Mason (1865-1948) | |
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The Four Feathers
The Four Feathers is a 1902 adventure novel by British writer A.E.W. Mason that has inspired many films of the same title.The novel tells the story of British officer, Harry Feversham, who resigns his commission in the East Surrey Regiment just prior to Sir Garnet Wolseley's 1882 expedition to Egypt to suppress the rising of Urabi Pasha. He is faced with censure from three of his comrades for cowardice, signified by the delivery of three white feathers to him, from Captain Trench and Lieutenants Castleton and Willoughby, and the loss of the support of his Irish fiancée, Ethne Eustace, who presents him with the fourth feather... |
By: Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) | |
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Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom |
By: Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre | |
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Paul and Virginia
Paul and Virginia was first published in 1787. The novel's title characters are very good friends since birth who fall in love, but sadly die when the ship Le Saint-Geran is wrecked. The story is set in the island of Mauritius under French rule, then named Île de France, which the author had visited. Written on the eve of the French Revolution, the novel is hailed as Bernardin's finest work. It records the fate of a child of nature corrupted by the false, artificial sentimentality that prevailed at the time among the upper classes of France. |
By: Basil King (1859-1928) | |
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The Letter of the Contract |
By: Emil Lucka (1877-1941) | |
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The Evolution of Love |
By: John C. Hutcheson | |
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She and I, Volume 1 A Love Story. A Life History. | |
She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. |
By: Emma Wolf (1865-1932) | |
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Other Things Being Equal
Ruth Levice, the daughter of a rich San Francisco Jewish merchant, meats Dr. Herbert Kemp, and they slowly fall in love. However, she is Jewish and he is not. Can love overcome such an obstacle? And what is more important, duty or love? |
By: E.D.E.N. Southworth (1819-1899) | |
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The Missing Bride
Prepare yourself for a journey, full of adventures and plot twists which will keep you guessing until the very end. This is psychological romance at its best. In the war of 1814, an American heiress falls in love with a British officer. This ill-fated marriage brings together a large group of interesting people who would never have met in other circumstances. |
By: Mary Jane Holmes (1828-1907) | |
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Tempest and Sunshine
Tempest and Sunshine is the first book written by Mary Jane Holmes. Set in the pre-Civil War south, it follows the struggles and romances of two sisters, as different as night and day; blonde Fanny and dark haired Julia. (Introduction by jedopi) |
By: Heinrich Zschokke (1771-1848) | |
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The Broken Cup |
By: Grace S. Richmond (1866-1959) | |
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Under the Country Sky |
By: Frederick James Furnivall (1825-1910) | |
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Arthur A Short Sketch of His Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century |
By: H. C. Bailey (1878-1961) | |
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The Highwayman
A romance and adventure novel, set in England during the reign of Queen Anne. The book is much unlike the author's later detective short stories. The actual book is difficult to locate and appears to have been forgotten. It is not even listed by Wiki as part of the author's work, nevermind have any information on the book itself. |
By: Henry J. Ford (1860-1941) | |
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The Book of Romance |
By: Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1870-1944) | |
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Shavings |
By: Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948) | |
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Daughter Of The Vine
We are introduced to Englishman Dudley Thorpe on the evening of his arrival in California. At a ball, he is introduced to several belles, including the lovely Nina Randolph. Is this the start of something special? Dudley thinks so, but what about Nina? Why won't she open herself up to love? She is obviously attracted to Dudley. What is the dark secret she is hiding? Will it make a difference to Dudley's feelings? Who will be there for her in her time of need? Dudley or her odious cousin, Richard Clough? And what will San Francisco society make of it all? | |
Sleeping Fires
The story of a love so strong that neither the rigid rules of Society in California in the 1800s nor the very bowels of hell could keep a young woman from the love she had found. A story rich in fashion ad feminism showing how determination and love could overcome all obstacles. |
By: Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871-1958) | |
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The Clarion |
By: Edward P. Roe (1838-1888) | |
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He Fell in Love with His Wife
James desperately needs someone to help him keep his farm going, but has failure after colossal failure finding a good housekeeper. Alida marries a man only to find out he's already married. She's so undone when she finds out that she just wants to go somewhere where no one will judge her for her misfortune, where she can work and keep herself fed and clothed. James and Alida meet and arrange for a strictly business marriage, leaving loving and honoring out of the vows. The title of the book tells the rest of the story, but the way it gets there is worth the journey. (Introduction by TriciaG) |
By: David Graham Phillips (1867-1911) | |
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The Fortune Hunter | |
The Price She Paid | |
The Cost |
By: Henry Drummond | |
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The Greatest Thing in the World and Other Addresses
The spiritual classic The Greatest Thing In the World is a trenchant and tender analysis of Christian love as set forth in the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians. The other addresses speak to other aspects of Christian life and thought. |
By: Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947) | |
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Old Love Stories Retold |
By: Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1873-1945) | |
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The Romance of a Plain Man |
By: William S. Gilbert (1836-1911) | |
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The Pirates of Penzance
The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The story concerns Frederic, who, having completed his 21st year, is released from his apprenticeship to a band of tender-hearted pirates. He meets Mabel, the daughter of Major-General Stanley, and the two young people fall instantly in love. Frederic finds out, however, that he was born on 29 February, and so, technically, he only has a birthday each leap year... |
By: Henry Gilbert (1868-1937) | |
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King Arthur's Knights: The Tales Retold for Boys & Girls
This book is an attempt to tell some of the stories of King Arthur and his Knights in a way which will be interesting to every boy and girl who loves adventures. (Introduction by Henry Gilbert) |
By: William Austen-Leigh | |
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Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record |
By: F. Hamilton Jackson (1848-1923) | |
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The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia |
By: Samuel R. Crockett (1860-1914) | |
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Patsy |
By: M. I. (Maud Isabel) Ebbutt (1867-) | |
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Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race |