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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 Gustav Meyrink

by Gilbert Parker

by Charles Gilson

by Eva March Tappan

by Richard Savage

by Honoré de Balzac

by John Dos Passos

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

by Émile Zola

by Jules Verne

by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

by S. N. Haleole

by Eleanor Stredder

by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

by George Meredith

by Friedrich Strauss

by Jules Verne

by Ralph Connor

by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Catherine Martin

by active 1573 Wugenzi

by David Graham Phillips

by Freiherr de Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué

by William Le Queux

by Mary Johnston

by Henry James

by Arnold Bennett

by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

by Arnold Bennett

by Mrs. Molesworth

by Wilkie Collins

by William Dean Howells

by Knut Hamsun

by B. M. Bower

by Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda

by Mark Twain

by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier

by Frederik Pohl, C. M. (Cyril M.) Kornbluth

by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin

by Louis Couperus

by George Manville Fenn

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

by Henry Milner Rideout

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney

by Wilhelm Meinhold

by Émile Zola

by Benito Pérez Galdós

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

by Stanley Waterloo

by Unknown

by Luis Vélez de Guevara

by William Dean Howells

by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

by Ouida

by Joseph Conrad

by Eden Phillpotts

by Jules Verne

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

by Eça de Queirós

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by William Dean Howells

by Caroline Lockhart

by Fergus Hume

by Edgar Wallace

by Bret Harte

by Marcel Proust

by Claude McKay

by Andre Norton

by Mrs. Molesworth

by Ray Cummings

by Elizabeth Sandham

by Anna Katharine Green

by Michael Scott

by Grace Livingston Hill

by Mary Jane Holmes

by William MacLeod Raine

by Hamlin Garland

by St. John G. (St. John Greer) Ervine

by Charles Heber Clark

by John Galsworthy

by Jane Abbott

by Frank Frankfort Moore

by William MacLeod Raine

by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

by George Barr McCutcheon

by S. S. Van Dine

by August Strindberg

by Margaret Mayo

by Barry Pain

by Burt L. Standish

by Grace May North

by William Henry Giles Kingston

by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

by L. T. Meade