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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 Amélie Rives

by Defendente Sacchi

by Allen Upward

by Theodore Dreiser

by Henryk Sienkiewicz

by Anna Katharine Green

by Herman Melville

by Amanda M. Douglas

by A. Russell (Alexander Russell) Bond

by Anatole France

by Charlotte M. Brame

by Émile Zola

by Clarence Edward Mulford

by Émile Zola

by William H. (William Harris) Elson, Christine M. Keck

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Gaston Leroux

by Christina Gowans Whyte

by Thomas Lodge

by Caroline Lee Hentz

by Gustav Freytag

by Willard F. Baker

by Nathan C. (Nathan Chapman) Kouns

by Collodi Nipote

by Herman Whitaker

by Henry Leverage

by Sir Hall Caine

by Marjorie Bowen

by Murray Leinster

by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller

by Katherine Stokes

by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson

by Various Authors

by Alphonse Daudet

by Louis Hémon

by Ellis Parker Butler

by Charles Lever

by Selma Lagerlöf

by Stewart Edward White

by Charles Lever

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

by Helen Leah Reed

by Vernon Lee

by David Graham Phillips

by Théophile Gautier

by Bernard Shaw

by Adeline Sergeant

by Marie Conway Oemler

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

by Sir Hall Caine

by Sinclair Lewis

by Standish O'Grady

by Izola L. (Izola Louise) Forrester

by Alice M. (Alice Mangold) Diehl

by Marshall Saunders

by Apuleius

by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

by E. J. Rath

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by George Manville Fenn

by William Gilmore Simms

by Théophile Gautier

by George Randolph Chester

by Richard Le Gallienne

by Walter Lionel George

by Frank Frankfort Moore

by W. S. (William Shuler) Harris

by William Le Queux

by Alphonse Daudet

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

by Katharine Ellis Barrett

by Aleph Bey

by Johannes Buchholtz

by Elizabeth Stoddard

by Albert Bigelow Paine

by Algernon Blackwood

by Cosmo Hamilton

by Mrs. Humphry Ward

by I. I. (Isaac Israel) Hayes

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Louis Arundel

by Daniel P. (Daniel Pierce) Thompson

by Louis Joseph Vance

by Aiyuezhuren

by Katherine Keene Galt

by Anne Austin
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by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

by Esther Birdsall Darling

by George Kringle

by Albert Delpit

by Mary Hastings Bradley

by Sir Charles Augustus Murray

by Nell Speed

by John Cowper Powys