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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 M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

by Harry Castlemon

by W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison) Murray

by William Henry Giles Kingston

by Johnston McCulley

by Alberto Pimentel

by James Grant

by Pierre Loti

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Édouard Laboulaye

by Gorch Fock

by Guillermo Díaz-Caneja

by Opie Percival Read

by Eleanor C. (Eleanor Catherine) Price

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Edmund Yates

by Charles Macomb Flandrau

by Evelyn Everett-Green

by Nat Gould

by Prentiss Ingraham

by Ben. E. (Benjamin Erastus) Rich

by Charles M. Sheldon

by Ella Rodman Church

by Annie Maria Barnes

by Donald E. Westlake

by J. (John) Church

by Grace Miller White, Livingston Robert Shewell

by David Graham Phillips

by Antonio Caccianiga

by William Henry Giles Kingston

by B. de (Berthe de) Buxy

by Alexandre Dumas

by Emile Gaboriau

by Lizzie A. Freeth

by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton

by Marietta Holley

by George Sand

by Károly Eötvös

by A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) Verrill

by E. S. (Ethel Smith) Dorrance

by Antonio Beltramelli

by Mrs. Henry Wood

by Louis Chadourne

by Wilhelm Hauff

by L. P. (Louis Pope) Gratacap

by S. J. (Stuart James) Byrne

by Leigh Brackett

by Franz Hoffmann

by Edouard Corbière

by W. Crispin (William Crispin) Sheppard

by báró Frigyes Podmaniczky

by John Henry Goldfrap

by William R. Doede

by Josephine Chase

by Nicholas (House name) Carter

by Édouard Delpit

by Longus

by Zsigmond Justh

by F. E. (Frederic Edward) Weatherly

by Nicholas (House name) Carter

by Charles L. Fontenay

by William W. Stuart

by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

by Agnes Giberne

by Mary Ellen Chase

by Madeline Leslie

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

by Gustav Falke

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

by H. Emile (Henri Emile) Chevalier

by Susan Coolidge

by Elaine Goodale Eastman

by Lester Del Rey

by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Bertram Lebhar

by Stanley Mullen

by Stephen Marlowe

by Herman Bang

by Kurt Matull, Theo von Blankensee, Felix (Leonard Felix) Hageman

by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

by Enrico Annibale Butti

by Louis Couperus

by Florence Warden

by Knut Hamsun

by Mrs. Baillie Reynolds

by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

by Gary Wright

by J. D. (John Davys) Beresford

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

by Otto Ludwig

by James Oliver Curwood

by Ambrose Newcomb

by George Meredith

by Georges Ohnet

by Paul Keller

by James M. (James Meeker) Ludlow

by Emily Lawless