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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 Willis George Emerson

by Anthony Trollope

by Henry James

by James Oliver Curwood

by George Allan England

by Berta Ruck

by Susan Coolidge

by Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne) La Fayette

by John Jacob Astor

by Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh) Sayers

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by James De Mille

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by William Allen White

by Gene Stratton-Porter

by Georgette Leblanc, Maurice Maeterlinck

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

by Israel Zangwill

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Theodore Dreiser
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by Émile Zola

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

by Jules Verne

by Lewis Carroll

by Rafael Sabatini

by Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne

by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

by Egerton Castle

by Zi Ye

by Jules Verne

by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

by Maud Diver

by Anne Warner

by Gustave Flaubert

by Petronius Arbiter

by Marie Belloc Lowndes

by Elliott O'Donnell

by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

by Charles Lever

by William Makepeace Thackeray

by Friedrich Schiller

by Zane Grey

by George MacDonald

by George Barr McCutcheon

by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

by Zane Grey

by Knut Hamsun

by Thomas Hardy

by Theodore Dreiser

by Edgar Fawcett

by Marie Manning

by Fanny Burney

by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

by William John Locke

by Hope Mirrlees

by George Sylvester Viereck

by Arthur Cheney Train

by Agnes Castle, Egerton Castle

by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

by Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine) Staël

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

by Jules Verne

by Walter Scott

by Mary Hampden

by Concha Espina

by Mary Cholmondeley

by Sherwood Anderson

by Gail Hamilton

by Jean Webster

by Wilkie Collins

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Ralph Connor

by Katherine Cecil Thurston

by Frank Belknap Long

by Anna Katharine Green

by Kathleen Thompson Norris

by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

by Edgar Jepson

by Mrs. Nathaniel Conklin

by Andre Norton

by Arthur Heming

by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins

by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

by Robert Barr

by W. S. (William Shuler) Harris

by William Morris

by Charles Reade

by John Galt

by Maud Diver

by Edna Ferber

by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

by Guy de Maupassant

by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

by Isabel Hornibrook

by Richard Marsh