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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 Madeline Brandeis

by Fritz Leiber

by Robert W. Krepps

by Mrs. George Corbett

by Edward L. (Edward Latimer) Beach

by Mrs. Henry Wood

by Albert Bigelow Paine

by Charles V. De Vet

by Fannie E. (Fannie Ellsworth) Newberry

by Paul de Kock

by Frederick Orin Bartlett

by Hayden Carruth

by Morgan Scott

by Alfred Bishop Mason

by Clair Blank

by L. T. Meade

by Augusta de Grasse Stevens

by Captain Alan Douglas

by Mari Wolf

by William Alexander Fraser

by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

by Frank Thomas Bullen

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

by Raymond Z. (Raymond Zinke) Gallun

by Robert H. Wilson

by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

by Charles Felton Pidgin

by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

by Carolyn Wells
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by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

by Jean N. (Jean Newton) McIlwraith

by Edward Everett Hale

by Marion Ames Taggart

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

by Jules Verne

by Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell

by Sara Ware Bassett

by James Otis

by Jean Aicard

by Matilde Serao

by Anna Potter Wright

by Rosamond Lehmann

by Nicholas (House name) Carter

by Jonas Lie

by Ouida

by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

by James Cody Ferris

by Romain Rolland

by Romain Rolland

by Robert Folkestone Williams

by Francis Lynde

by John Habberton

by Elsie Singmaster

by Mark Twain

by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

by Marie Belloc Lowndes

by William Lindsey

by Guy Thorne

by Bertram Mitford

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

by Richard Harding Davis

by Edward Peple

by condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán

by Paul Bourget

by Dorothy Wayne

by Charles Stokes Wayne

by Fanny Forester

by André Gide

by C. E. (Charlotte Elizabeth) Bowen

by Ottwell Binns

by Hermine Oudinot Lecomte du Noüy

by Kirby Brooks

by Willard F. Baker

by Éliphas Lévi

by Dikken Zwilgmeyer

by Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

by Vittorio Bersezio

by Harriet Pyne Grove

by Charles Alden Seltzer

by William Henry Giles Kingston

by Edmond Hamilton

by Theodore Winthrop

by Fergus Hume

by E. G. Von Wald

by Emilie Flygare-Carlén

by Ludwig Tieck

by Francis Clement Kelley

by Caroline Emilia Jacobs

by Francis Hopkinson Smith, F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley) Smith

by Robert Southey

by Sydney C. Grier

by Jack Sharkey

by Edgar Saltus

by Margaret Pollock Sherwood

by Katharine Pearson Woods

by Clarence Budington Kelland

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe