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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 Booth Tarkington

by Adeline Sergeant

by Alexandre Dumas

by William Le Queux

by Stephen Crane

by Guy de Maupassant

by Jr. Sam Merwin

by John Galsworthy

by Kathleen Thompson Norris

by Elizabeth Robins

by Victor Bridges

by Petronius Arbiter

by Upton Sinclair

by Edward Bellamy

by Merrill Tileston

by Arthur Quiller-Couch

by May Sinclair

by Ellis Meredith

by Ralph Connor

by Anthony Trollope

by Henry Van Dyke

by Arthur Christopher Benson

by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

by baron de Charles de Secondat Montesquieu

by May Sinclair

by J. C. (John Collis) Snaith

by Wilhelm Busch

by Henry James

by Evelyn Raymond

by Rex Beach

by Plum Rocky Mountain

by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

by Thomas Nelson Page

by Susan Warner

by Alice B. Emerson

by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton

by Winston Churchill

by Jeffery E. (Jeffery Eardley) Jeffery

by George Sand

by Geraldine Bonner

by Georg Ebers

by Lyman Abbott

by Frank Swinnerton

by Herbert Joseph Moorhouse

by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

by George O. (George Oliver) Smith

by Pierre Louÿs

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Eleanora H. Stooke

by Jean Moréas, Paul Adam

by Ulisse Barbieri

by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

by Hendrik Conscience

by Donald A. Wollheim

by Gusztáv Lauka

by Georg Ebers

by Michel Corday

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

by Lehel Kádár

by Alexandre Dumas

by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

by Wilkie Collins

by Charles Dickens

by Horace Walpole

by I. (Isaac) Mitchell, Daniel Jackson

by Hermann Hesse

by Mark Twain

by Samuel Butler

by Jane Austen

by Mary Wollstonecraft

by Honoré de Balzac

by Émile Zola

by Thomas Mann

by William Harrison Ainsworth

by Joseph Conrad

by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
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by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin

by Émile Zola

by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

by Mary Wollstonecraft

by Charles Reade

by Joseph Conrad

by Henry Van Dyke

by Gilbert Parker

by William Hope Hodgson

by Victor Hugo

by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

by Anthony Trollope

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Marcel Proust

by John Finnemore

by Gilbert Parker

by Arthur Quiller-Couch

by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

by Honoré de Balzac

by Ernest Bramah

by William Henry Giles Kingston