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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 Mary Hastings Bradley

by Edgar Saltus

by Harold Bindloss

by George Manville Fenn

by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

by Sheila Kaye-Smith

by Fannie E. (Fannie Ellsworth) Newberry

by L. T. Meade

by James Runciman

by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

by Norman Duncan

by George Manville Fenn

by Richard Le Gallienne

by Eugène Sue

by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

by Cyril Burleigh

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
by Louis Arundel

by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

by B. M. (Bithia Mary) Croker

by A. J. (Augustine J.) O'Reilly

by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

by Harold Bell Wright

by Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie) Jackson

by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson) Ward

by Guy de Maupassant

by Carl Saxon

by Bessie Marchant

by Edgar Jepson

by Samuel Merwin

by George Van Schaick

by Mary Jane Holmes

by Randall Garrett

by Louis Becke

by Grace Livingston Hill

by Władysław Stanisław Reymont

by Madeline Brandeis

by Edward Stratemeyer

by Hugh Walpole

by Elliott Whitney

by Richard Wilson

by Izola L. (Izola Louise) Forrester

by Alice B. Emerson

by Desmond Coke

by Mrs. Molesworth

by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

by Harry Castlemon

by Ellis Parker Butler

by Hildegard G. Frey

by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

by Edna Henry Lee Turpin

by George O. (George Oliver) Smith

by Max Pemberton

by Mayne Reid

by Samuel Merwin, Henry Kitchell Webster

by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne

by Retta B. Babcock

by Machado de Assis

by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

by William Henry Giles Kingston

by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

by Eugène Sue

by Fergus Hume

by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton

by Friedrich Spielhagen

by Heman White Chaplin

by George Sand

by Richard Harding Davis

by Mrs. George Corbett

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

by Ritter von Leopold Sacher-Masoch

by A. P. (Alan Patrick) Herbert

by Allen Upward

by Frank V. Webster

by Charles Monselet

by Inez Haynes Gillmore

by George S. (George Shepard) Chappell

by Emile Gaboriau

by Prentiss Ingraham

by Ludwig Rellstab

by Bernard Capes

by Rolf Boldrewood

by Harry Gordon

by Fox B. Holden

by Raymond Z. (Raymond Zinke) Gallun
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by Mrs. (Jane Haldimand) Marcet

by Jonathan Swift

by Nicholas (House name) Carter

by Oliver Optic

by Harold Bell Wright

by Henry Blake Fuller

by Charles Garvice

by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

by James Causey