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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 Joseph Crosby Lincoln

by Compton MacKenzie

by Henry Kuttner

by Hugh Walpole

by George Borrow

by Richard Le Gallienne

by Jean Lorrain

by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

by Miguel de Unamuno

by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

by Bayard Taylor

by Horace Annesley Vachell

by Rudyard Kipling

by George MacDonald

by Émile Zola

by James De Mille

by Pietari Päivärinta

by Herman Whitaker

by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton

by Mark Twain
by Nanzhuang Zhang

by Zona Gale

by Gilbert Parker

by Elizabeth Von Arnim

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

by Maurice Barrès

by George Moore

by Richard Harding Davis

by Alphonse Karr

by William Henry Giles Kingston

by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

by Thomas K. Holmes

by Owen Johnson

by Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) Mathews

by Herbert Quick

by George Gissing

by Lester Chadwick

by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

by George S. (George Samuel) Schuyler

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Charles Dickens

by Honoré de Balzac

by François Coppée

by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

by Robert Walser

by Andy Adams

by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

by Eugène François Vidocq

by Andrey Bely

by Wilhelm Meinhold

by Charles Neville Buck

by Alfred Henry Lewis

by Frederick Marryat

by Sir Hall Caine

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

by Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff

by Randall Garrett

by Fanny Burney

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Mrs. Henry Wood

by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

by Mary Johnston

by Lucy Aikin, Johann David Wyss

by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

by Charles Reade

by Benito Pérez Galdós

by Nell Speed

by John Philip Sousa

by Jessie Fothergill

by Mayne Reid

by Ernest Thompson Seton

by C. M. (Cyril M.) Kornbluth

by George Madden Martin

by Frank Gee Patchin

by Christopher Morley, Bart Haley

by Arthur Quiller-Couch

by Jacob Abbott

by Harold Avery

by Heinrich Zschokke

by Heman White Chaplin

by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

by Herbert George Jenkins

by Geraldine Bonner

by S. S. Van Dine

by Mary E. Hanshew, Thomas W. Hanshew

by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

by Lew Wallace

by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile

by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

by H. Beam Piper

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

by Amy Ella Blanchard

by Owen Johnson

by Charles Dudley Warner

by Jules Verne