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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 Arthur Christopher Benson

by Evelyn Raymond

by Harold Steele MacKaye

by Émile Souvestre

by Owen Wister

by Robert Walser

by Zona Gale

by Edward Stratemeyer

by Theodore Dreiser

by Victor Hugo

by Philip K. Dick

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by active 1842-1851 Wenkang

by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

by Rudolf Erich Raspe

by Bāṇa, Bhūṣaṇabhaṭṭa

by Maurice Leblanc

by Ouida

by Charles Dickens

by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

by James Weldon Johnson

by John Dos Passos

by Jim Kjelgaard

by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

by Padraic Colum

by Honoré de Balzac

by Hugh Walpole

by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

by Pierre Loti

by Angela Brazil

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

by B. M. Bower

by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

by Algernon Blackwood

by Stefan Zweig

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Victor Appleton

by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

by Samuel Richardson

by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

by Anthony Trollope

by Rainer Maria Rilke

by Mór Jókai

by Anthony Trollope

by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

by B. M. Bower

by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson

by Susan Coolidge

by Camilo Castelo Branco

by William Harrison Ainsworth

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Elizabeth Von Arnim

by William Dean Howells

by Washington Irving

by Murray Leinster

by Susan Glaspell

by Guy de Maupassant

by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

by Frederick Swainson

by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

by Stanley John Weyman

by Gouverneur Morris

by Rafael Sabatini

by Hannah Lynch

by Elizabeth Von Arnim

by Harriet Martineau

by Harry Steele Morrison

by Carolyn Wells

by Mrs. Henry Wood

by Charles Dickens

by Henry James

by Émile Zola

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

by Henry James

by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

by John Kendrick Bangs

by Various Authors

by Susan Warner

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Fergus Hume

by Louis Bromfield

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Dane Coolidge

by Sax Rohmer

by Opie Percival Read
by Henry Seton Merriman

by Harris Dickson

by Robert Hichens

by Thomas Nelson Page

by Burton Egbert Stevenson

by comte de Aimery de Comminges

by Roger T. (Roger Thompson) Finlay