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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 E. R. (Ernest Robertson) Punshon

by Burton Egbert Stevenson

by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

by Booth Tarkington

by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence

by Bret Harte

by Countess (Hélène) Barcynska

by Henry Mayhew

by Various Authors

by Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith

by Ian Maclaren

by Duffield Osborne

by John Kendrick Bangs

by P. Jones

by L. T. Meade

by Donald E. Westlake

by Vicente Espinel

by Richard Head, Francis Kirkman

by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman

by Ethel Cook Eliot

by William Black

by Kris Neville

by Norman Duncan

by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade

by Laura Jean Libbey

by Robert Hugh Benson

by Margaret Pedler

by John Henry Goldfrap

by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

by Sewell Ford

by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

by Ruth McEnery Stuart
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by Émile Zola

by William Harrison Ainsworth

by Paul de Kock

by Angela Brazil

by Howard Roger Garis

by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

by Guy Boothby

by Elinor Macartney Lane

by Honoré de Balzac

by Various Authors

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

by Robert Hichens

by Auguste Groner

by C. E. (Charles Edward) Lawrence

by Henry Oyen

by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

by W. C. Morrow

by Aurelio Tolentino

by A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) Verrill

by Sarah S. (Sarah Schoonmaker) Baker

by Agnes Blake Poor

by Bess Moyer

by Francis Hopkinson Smith

by Richard Harding Davis

by Israel Zangwill

by Anthony Pryde

by George Chetwynd Griffith

by George Manville Fenn

by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

by R. Norman (Robert Norman) Grisewood

by Harriet Pyne Grove

by Manuel Fernández y González

by Stanley R. Matthews

by James Hopper

by William J. Burns, Isabel Ostrander

by E. (Eugenie) Marlitt

by Frances Minto Dickinson Elliot
by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller

by Gustave Aimard

by Charles Alden Seltzer

by Camille Flammarion

by Mary Belle Freeley

by James De Mille

by Harold MacGrath, F. Lonergan

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

by Henry Bordeaux

by Richard Harding Davis

by Grace Livingston Hill

by George Gissing

by Elinor Glyn

by J. D. (John Davys) Beresford

by J. Irwin (John Irwin) Brown

by Jacob Ahrenberg

by Hilda T. Skae

by Melville Davisson Post

by Martha Finley

by David Whitelaw

by Isabel Ostrander

by Alfred W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson

by Edwin Lefevre

by Yvan Goll

by Harriet Pyne Grove

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

by George Sand

by Allen Chapman