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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 L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Alexandre Dumas

by François Rabelais

by Alexandre Dumas

by Susan Coolidge

by Samuel Richardson

by Maurice Leblanc

by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton

by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

by Rolf Boldrewood

by Marie Corelli

by Alexandre Dumas

by Charles Dickens

by Susan Coolidge

by Dafu Yu

by Michael Scott

by Samuel Richardson

by Oliver Onions

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse, H. W. (Herbert Wetton) Westbrook

by Walter Besant

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

by George Meredith

by Henry James

by Hugh Walpole

by Abraham Cahan

by Guy Thorne

by Ethel Turner

by Anthony Trollope

by George Tucker

by Cleveland Moffett

by William Makepeace Thackeray

by Jules Verne

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Ralph Connor

by Henry Herbert Knibbs

by Upton Sinclair

by Alfred Henry Lewis

by Harold MacGrath

by Hope Mirrlees

by Tianhuazangzhuren

by Lucas Malet

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

by Mrs. Humphry Ward

by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

by Robert Barr

by George MacDonald

by Meredith Nicholson

by Francis Hopkinson Smith

by Harry Harrison

by Jack London

by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow

by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs

by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

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

by Joel Chandler Harris

by Frank R. Stockton

by Charles Dickens

by Grace Denio Litchfield

by Josephine Chase

by Talbot Mundy

by James Oliver Curwood

by Mark Twain

by Leroy Scott

by Burt L. Standish

by Bret Harte

by G. Christopher (George Christopher) Davies

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

by Victor G. Durham

by Martin Andersen Nexø

by Edgar Lee Masters

by Harry Collingwood

by William Henry Giles Kingston

by Murray Leinster

by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

by Mark Twain

by Anna Chapin Ray

by Arthur Achleitner

by Thomas Hardy

by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy

by Edward Payson Roe

by Albert Payson Terhune

by Jules Verne

by Edith Lavell

by William Dean Howells

by Mark Twain

by Rupert Hughes

by Guy Boothby

by Oliver Optic

by Thomas Mann

by Rex Beach

by George Moore

by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

by Edna Lyall

by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

by Manuel Pinheiro Chagas