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Step into a world where ambition smolders, secrets slip through whispering walls, and romance races from glittering drawing rooms to storm-dark villages. These novels sweep across continents and classes, blending danger, desire, deception, and rebellion into stories that feel larger than life. Open this shelf and follow the drama wherever it leads—into the heart of intrigue, passion, and unforgettable adventure.

by Vinceslas-Eugène Dick

by Philippe Aubert de Gaspé

by Abraham Cahan

by Eliza Fowler Haywood

by Laure Conan

by Pauline E. (Pauline Elizabeth) Hopkins

by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

by Lady (Sydney) Morgan

by John Oxenham

by Edward Prime-Stevenson

by Maksim Gorky

by George Sand

by Albert Bigelow Paine

by Ernest Thompson Seton

by Charles Brockden Brown

by I. T. (Ida Treadwell) Thurston

by Honoré de Balzac

by Charles Brockden Brown

by Zsigmond Móricz

by María Amparo Ruiz de Burton

by Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine) Staël

by Hermann Hesse

by Wyndham Lewis

by William Dean Howells

by Amelia E. Barr

by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

by Marian Hurd McNeely, Jean Bingham Wilson

by Charles Brockden Brown

by Ameen Fares Rihani

by Hugo Gernsback

by Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli

by John Henry Newman

by Ouida

by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs

by Ivan Alekseevich Bunin

by James Justinian Morier

by Eugène Sue

by George MacDonald

by Edward Bellamy

by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

by Henry Mackenzie

by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

by Felix Timmermans

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

by J. P. (Jens Peter) Jacobsen

by George Sand

by Thomas Nelson Page

by Honoré de Balzac

by E. A. (Elizabeth Amy) Dillwyn

by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham

by Edith Wharton

by Martha Finley

by Alexander Lange Kielland

by John Galt

by Mary Grant Bruce

by Mary Hays

by Martha Finley

by Martha Finley

by Charles Brockden Brown

by Jane Austen

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

by Arthur Schnitzler

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

by Henry James

by Louisa May Alcott

by George MacDonald

by Roy Horniman

by Walter Scott

by Maria S. (Maria Susanna) Cummins

by George MacDonald

by Jakob Wassermann

by Mrs. Humphry Ward

by Norman Douglas

by Mary E. Bradley Lane

by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens

by Anthony Trollope

by Martha Finley

by Martha Finley

by Adeline Sergeant

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

by Théophile Gautier

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

by Jules Verne

by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

by Harold Bell Wright

by Harold Bindloss

by Kostantinos Chatzopoulos

by George MacDonald

by Paul Heyse

by James Fenimore Cooper

by George MacDonald

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by George O. (George Oliver) Smith