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Books in the Romance genre:

The Famous History of the Seven Champions of Christendom (1696)

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An early printing of this famous romance. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Richard Johnson
Illustrator(s): None

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The Renowned History of the Seven Champions of Christendom (1824)

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The story of the adventures of St. George of England and his companions. This is a reprint of the original version first printed in 1597. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Richard Johnson
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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Wuthering Heights (1847)

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Heathcliff, the antihero, gets revenge on the people who kept him away from his love, Cathy Earnshaw. After over a decade, he gains Thrushcross Grange, the family home of Cathy's husband. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Emily Brontë
Illustrator(s): None

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The Scarlet Letter (1850)

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In the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter with a man to whom she is not married and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Nathaniel Hawthorne
Illustrator(s): Andrew Varick Stout Anthony
Mary Hollock Foote
L. S. Ipsen

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A Deplorable Affair (1893)

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A romance set in an English watering place. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): W. E. Norris
Illustrator(s): L. Leslie Brooke

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Cressy and Other Tales (1896)

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This is volume VII of the Standard Library Edition of the writings of Bret Harte. The title story is a romance of the gold fields. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): Bret Harte
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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Bolanyo: A Novel (1897)

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An out-of-work actor is literally blown ashore at Bolanyo, a Mississippi river town, and soon is embroiled in its society and politics. Cover is by Parrish. Read online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Opie Read
Illustrator(s): Charles Francis Browne
Maxfield Parrish

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The Castle Inn (1898)

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A “Regency Romance” albeit set in the eighteenth century. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Stanley J. Weyman
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq (1898)

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A romance of the early eighteenth century in Thackeray’s best style. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

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The Gentleman From Indiana (1899)

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John Harkness returns home to Indiana to run a newspaper, fight corruption and the Klan, and win a seat in Congress. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s): None

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Don Quixote of La Mancha (1900)

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The romance-befuddled Hidalgo mounts his Rozinante and sets out to battle villains and right wrongs. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Edward Abbott Parry
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

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The Vicar of Wakefield (1900)

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The vicar endures the sufferings of Job, but all comes right in the end.

Author(s): Oliver Goldsmith
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

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Frere Jacques (1902)

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A tale of infidelity, crime and honor in the French manner. The cover is from a very limited edition as it contains the originals of the illustrations used in the regular, although limited, editions. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Charles Paul de Kock
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith
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Beth Norvell (1907)

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A story of Western mining camps and one-night stands.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Randall Parrish
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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Sense and Sensibility (1908)

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When Mrs. Dashwood and her three daughters find themselves in realtive poverty with only the income of ten thousand pounds ($100,000 per year in current money) to live on, she determines to move to a different part of the country, near a cousin who o... View More

Author(s): Jane Austen
Illustrator(s): C. E. Brock

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Kilmeny of the Orchard (1910)

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Kilmeny cannot speak until Eric is threatened by her jealous foster brother. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s): George Gibbs

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The Amateur Gentleman (1913)

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Barnabas Barty comes into the possession of a vast fortune and determines to use it to become a gentleman. He must first knock his father down, although as respectfully as may be. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Jeffery Farnol
Illustrator(s): Herman Pfeifer

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The Seven Champions of Christendom (1913)

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This is a recasting of a famous romance which likely originated in the Middle Ages, telling of the knightly adventures of the seven champions. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): F. J. Harvey Darton
Richard Johnson
Illustrator(s): Norman Ault

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The Turmoil (1915)

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Two Midwestern families cope with the onset of industrialization. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s): Charles Bosseron Chambers

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The King of Ireland’s Son (1916)

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The King of Ireland's Son sets out to find the Enchanter of the Black Back-Lands and meets the Enchanter's daughter, Fedelma.

Author(s): Pádraic Colum
Illustrator(s): Willy Pogány

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