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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 Lady (Sydney) Morgan

by Philippe Aubert de Gaspé

by Eliza Fowler Haywood

by Laure Conan

by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

by Amelia E. Barr

by Mary Hays

by George Du Maurier

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

by Jane Porter

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

by Mona Caird

by Sara Jeannette Duncan

by Abraham Cahan

by Pauline E. (Pauline Elizabeth) Hopkins

by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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 Ameen Fares Rihani

by María Amparo Ruiz de Burton

by Hermann Hesse

by Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine) Staël

by Wyndham Lewis

by William Dean Howells

by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

by Charles Brockden Brown

by Marian Hurd McNeely, Jean Bingham Wilson

by Hugo Gernsback

by Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli

by John Henry Newman

by Ivan Alekseevich Bunin

by Ouida

by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs

by James Justinian Morier

by Eugène Sue

by Edward Bellamy

by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

by George MacDonald

by Henry Mackenzie

by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

by James Fenimore Cooper

by J. P. (Jens Peter) Jacobsen

by Felix Timmermans

by George Sand

by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

by Thomas Nelson Page

by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham

by E. A. (Elizabeth Amy) Dillwyn

by Honoré de Balzac

by Martha Finley

by Edith Wharton

by Alexander Lange Kielland

by John Galt

by Mary Grant Bruce

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 Martha Finley

by Norman Douglas

by Martha Finley

by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens

by Mary E. Bradley Lane

by Anthony Trollope

by Théophile Gautier

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

by Adeline Sergeant

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

by Jules Verne

by George MacDonald

by George MacDonald

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

by Harold Bindloss