PDF Books in Romance Fiction
The Sicilian Bandit
by Alexandre DumasMany of Alexandre Dumas' most beloved works are swashbuckling tales of justice and honor, such as The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. In the short novel The Sicilian Bandit, Dumas turns the tables and recounts the exploits of a brazen and brilliant crook, Pascal Bruno.An episode of “Captain Paul”, it is a classic tale of love, pride..
Miss or Mrs.?
by Wilkie CollinsNatalie Graybrooke is in love with her cousin Launcelot Linzie, but engaged to Mr. Turlington, an older man who covets her fortune and whom she detests. Turlington is the executor of Natalie's father's estate. When Natalie secretly marries her cousin, Turlington arranges to have Natalie's father murdered, to gain control of his fortune...
The Two Destinies
by Wilkie CollinsMary Dermody is destined to be together with George Germaine one day, or so at least her grandmother prophesizes. Destiny at first doesn't seem to adhere to this plan, and the pair is separated and lose sight of each other. But when George saves a young woman from drowning, a strong connection seems to develop between them, which seems to be almost..
A Daughter of Witches - A Romance
by Joanna E. WoodMiss Temperance Tribbey stood at the back door of the old Lansing house, shading her eyes with one hand as she looked towards the gate to discover why Grip, the chained-up mastiff, was barking so viciously.The great wooden spoon, which she held in her other hand, was dripping with red syrup, and showed that Temperance was preserving fruit. To the e..
Grey Wethers - A Romantic Novel
by V. Sackville-WestMore than half a century has now elapsed since the events which added a new legend to the hard ancient hills lying about Marlborough and King’s Avon. The last organised rustic Scouring of the White Horse of King’s Avon,—from which occasion these events may properly be said to date, although a believer in predestination might be found to contend tha..
The Chaste Diana
by E. BarringtonThis romance of “The Beggar’s Opera” introduces many real persons but all imaginatively treated. Lord Baltimore, “The American Prince,” as he was called at the time in society, has come down to us with a reputation for heartlessness of which I have made the most, and it would be difficult for any novelist to exaggerate the whims of the famous and b..
The Divine Lady
by E. BarringtonAs I sat, years ago, in the Admiral’s cabin of Nelson’s flag-ship, the Foudroyant, the thought of this romance came to me, for this ship was the sea-shrine of that great but errant passion. She is a wreck now, her stranded ribs are green with weed, her bones are broken in the wash of the tide. A grave at sea amidst the answering thunder and flash o..
Four Bells
by Ralph D. PaineThe romance of the sea! Damned rubbish, he called it. The trade of seafaring was one way to earn a living. This was about all you could say for it. He had been lured into the merchant service as the aftermath of an enlistment in the Naval Reserve for the duration of the war. There was a great hurrah, as you will recall, over the mighty fleet of new..