The beautiful, young Elizabeth falls in love with Mr. Darcy, but he must control his pride while she tries to overcome her prejudice.
The book describes in great, often gory detail the horrors and the carnage of war. A highly fanciful romance set in the ancient city of Carthage at the height of the Punic Wars.
Through a procession of vocations, the hero constantly opposes a villainous nobleman, the Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr. First as a lawyer, then as an actor, a swordsman, and finally a revolutionary politician, the hero finds himself confronted by d'Azyr, and finally faces an astounding revelation...
An English sea captain who is also a gunrunner is in love with a beautiful Spanish woman. Like so many of Conrad's novels, The Arrow of Gold is a sea story, but it's also about love.
This 1846 novel by Dickens is a beautiful tale of love and self-abnegation. Â
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This is the partly autobiographical story of one man's courtship of three generations of women.
Carpenters Adam and Seth Bede encounter many obstacles in their search for true love.
Bartleby Alexander, a successful engineer is torn between his career, wife, and passion for an Irish actress named Hilda.
Anna is unhappy with her marriage to a powerful politician, and when she falls in love with a dashing young officer, she must endure the criticism of others.