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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 Mary Mapes Dodge

by Alice Corkran

by Charles Lever

by Emily F. (Emily Ferguson) Murphy

by Honoré de Balzac

by W. W. (William Woodthorpe) Tarn

by Giuseppe Garibaldi

by Anatole France

by Frank Mayer

by Charles Lever

by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

by James H. Schmitz

by Cornelia Baker

by Sophie Fisher

by Richard Cobbold

by Ralph Connor

by Ford Madox Ford

by Jakob Wassermann

by Daniel Defoe

by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

by Samuel Warren

by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

by Belle Kanaris Maniates

by active 1909-1917 Herbert Carter

by Walter Besant

by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

by Carolyn Wells

by Honoré de Balzac

by Mrs. Humphry Ward

by Charles Sherman

by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

by Elizabeth Von Arnim

by Honoré de Balzac

by John Trotwood Moore

by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

by Eleanor Mercein Kelly

by Arthur Quiller-Couch

by Benjamin Constant

by Margaret Vandercook

by Richard Harding Davis

by Gilbert Parker

by Alice MacGowan

by George Randolph Chester

by Burtis McGie Little

by Mabel C. Hawley

by Honoré de Balzac

by John Francis

by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

by Benito Pérez Galdós

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Anthony Hope

by Randall Garrett

by Maarten Maartens

by Cyril Burleigh

by Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli

by May Sinclair

by William Le Queux

by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

by Charles Lever

by H. Beam Piper

by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

by Burt L. Standish

by Frederick Whishaw

by Charlton M. (Charlton Miner) Lewis

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Moray Dalton

by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

by Waldron Baily

by Elizabeth Sara Sheppard

by Charles Lever

by Gustave Flaubert

by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

by Edgar Saltus

by Alice Perrin

by Stanley John Weyman

by Everett MacDonald

by Dornford Yates

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by George Pattullo

by Louis Zangwill

by Mary Finley Leonard

by St. George Tucker

by Jackson Gregory

by Justus Miles Forman

by John Henry Goldfrap

by Jean Ingelow

by William Henry Giles Kingston

by Various Authors

by Poul Anderson

by Wilmer M. (Wilmer Mateo) Ely

by Winifred (Matilda Winifred Muriel) Graham

by Francis Lynde

by Charles Pierce Burton

by Covington Clarke

by Harry Stephen Keeler

by William Henry Giles Kingston

by Randall Parrish