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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 James Grant

by D. P. Plaatsman

by Maurice Leblanc

by George O. (George Oliver) Smith

by H. (Henry) Bedford-Jones

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by Heikki Meriläinen

by Francis Jammes

by Cyriel Buysse

by Burton Egbert Stevenson

by Fritz Reuter

by Romain Rolland

by Alfred de Vigny

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

by Hilja Haahti

by John Habberton

by Leonhard Frank

by Anatole France

by Grant Allen

by Edmund Flagg

by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

by Jules Verne

by José Rizal

by Felix Salten

by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

by Jules Lermina

by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

by Jean K. (Jean Katherine) Baird

by Ernest Hemingway

by Edith Wharton

by Israel Zangwill

by Alice Brown

by Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli

by Sewell Ford

by Temple Bailey

by Carolyn Wells

by Bertram Mitford

by Margaret E. Winslow

by L. T. Meade

by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

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

by Louis Tracy

by John Reed Scott

by Barry Pain

by William MacLeod Raine

by Pinghuazhuren

by Leo Perutz

by William Dean Howells

by Roger T. (Roger Thompson) Finlay

by Meredith Nicholson

by Eliza Calvert Hall

by Sir Thomas Malory

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

by Susan Coolidge

by Sara Ware Bassett

by Waldemar Bonsels

by Beatrix Potter

by Mark Twain

by Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov

by Arthur Conan Doyle

by Emerson Hough

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Anatole France

by Florence Partello Stuart

by George Thompson

by Ruth Ogden

by George Eliot

by William Dean Howells

by Sax Rohmer

by Bernardim Ribeiro

by Émile Zola

by Louisa May Alcott

by Théophile Gautier

by Maurice Leblanc

by Radclyffe Hall

by Honoré de Balzac

by Winston Churchill

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Samuel Hopkins Adams

by Cyrus Townsend Brady

by Wilkie Collins

by Henry Fielding

by Romain Rolland

by Honoré de Balzac

by Honoré de Balzac

by James De Mille

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

by John Galsworthy

by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

by Camille Flammarion

by Sir Max Beerbohm

by George Meredith

by Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli

by Robert Hichens