70 Greatest Love Stories in Fiction (Historical Novels Edition)

e-artnow presents to you the meticulously edited collection of the greatest historical romance novels:

Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt (Georg Ebers)

The New Abelard: Love in the Times of Cathedrals (Robert Williams Buchanan)

Hildebrand: The Days of Queen Elizabeth (Anonymous)

Love-at-Arms (Rafael Sabatini)

The Making Of A Saint (W. Somerset Maugham)

The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade)

The Princess of Cleves (Madame de La Fayette)

The Forest Lovers (Maurice Hewlett)

Malcolm (George MacDonald)

Scarlet Letter: Love in the Colonial Period (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

The Wild Irish Girl (Lady Sydney Morgan)

Sophia (Stanley John Weyman)

Paul and Virginia (Bernardin de Saint-Pierre)

Memoirs of Emma Courtney (Mary Hays)

Powder and Patch (Georgette Heyer)

The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (Eliza Haywood)

Fantomina (Eliza Haywood)

Olinda's Adventures (Catharine Trotter Cockburn)

Belinda (Maria Edgeworth)

Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos de Laclos)

Evelina (Fanny Burney)

Pamela Trilogy

Mary (Mary Wollstonecraft)

Jane Austen:

Pride & Prejudice

Sense & Sensibility

Mansfield Park

Emma

Persuasion

Miss Marjoribanks & Phoebe, Junior (Mrs. Olifant)

Vanity Fair (Thackeray)

Mr. Rowl (D. K. Broster)

The Battle of the Strong (Gilbert Parker)

Kitty Alone (Sabine Baring-Gould)

Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert)

Lady Anna (Anthony Trollope)

The Manoeuvring Mother (Lady Charlotte Bury)

Ramona (Helen Hunt Jackson)

Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)

Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë)

The Lady of the Camellias (Alexandre Dumas)

The Portrait of a Lady & The Wings of the Dove (Henry James)

Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)

The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)

Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)

Bel Ami (Guy de Maupassant)

The Squatter and the Don (María Ruiz de Burton)

Maria Chapdelaine (Louis Hémon)

The Four Feathers (A. E. W. Mason)

The Miranda Trilogy (Grace Livingston Hill)

The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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