Romance
Love, society and longing — beloved romances from Austen to the Brontës and more.
61 books, free to read in full.

A farewell to arms
Ernest Hemingway
✦Big ideas · 5h 54m

A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare
✦Big ideas · 1h 8m

A Room with a View
E. M. Forster
✦Big ideas · 4h 25m

Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
✦Big ideas · 23h 17m

Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast
Holman Day
✦Big ideas · 9h 21m

Carmen
Prosper Mérimée
✦Big ideas · 1h 36m

Cynthia's Chauffeur
Louis Tracy
✦Big ideas · 5h 30m

Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand
✦Big ideas · 2h 23m

Dainty's Cruel Rivals; Or, The Fatal Birthday
Alex. McVeigh, Mrs. Miller
✦Big ideas · 3h 35m

Emma
Jane Austen
✦Big ideas · 10h 29m

Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
✦Big ideas · 2h 17m

Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
✦Big ideas · 9h 5m

Four Arthurian Romances
de Troyes, active 12th century Chrétien
✦Big ideas · 12h 16m

Henrietta Temple: A Love Story
Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
✦Big ideas · 9h 30m

I am a woman
Ann Bannon
✦Big ideas · 4h 59m

India's Love Lyrics
Laurence Hope
✦Big ideas · 1h 28m

Ivanhoe
Walter Scott
✦Big ideas · 12h 45m

Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
✦Big ideas · 12h 21m

Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
✦Big ideas · 12h 23m

Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
R. D. Blackmore
✦Big ideas · 18h 15m

Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
✦Big ideas · 7h 42m

Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
✦Big ideas · 10h 38m

Middlemarch
George Eliot
✦Big ideas · 21h 4m

Moods
Louisa May Alcott
✦Big ideas · 5h 44m

North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell
✦Big ideas · 12h 3m

Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
✦Big ideas · 5h 8m

O Pioneers!
Willa Cather
✦Big ideas · 3h 42m

Persuasion
Jane Austen
✦Big ideas · 5h 33m

Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
✦Big ideas · 8h 22m

Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
✦Big ideas · 8h 7m

Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
✦Big ideas · 2h 14m

Robert Orange: Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange
John Oliver Hobbes
✦Big ideas · 6h 36m

Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
✦Big ideas · 1h 42m

Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
✦Big ideas · 7h 55m

Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
✦Big ideas · 8h 1m

Sons and Lovers
D. H. Lawrence
✦Big ideas · 10h 40m

Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
✦Big ideas · 9h 59m

The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
✦Big ideas · 6h 45m

The Awakening
Kate Chopin
✦Big ideas · 4h 16m

The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald
✦Big ideas · 8h 14m

The Blue Castle: a novel
L. M. Montgomery
✦Big ideas · 4h 32m

The Crack of Doom
Robert Cromie
✦Big ideas · 2h 49m

The Enchanted April
Elizabeth Von Arnim
✦Big ideas · 5h 13m

The Gay Adventure: A Romance
Richard Bird
✦Big ideas · 5h 9m

The Green Mummy
Fergus Hume
✦Big ideas · 5h 50m

The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
Lucas Malet
✦Big ideas · 17h 22m

The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton
✦Big ideas · 8h 37m

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo
✦Big ideas · 12h 15m

The Lady of the Lake
Walter Scott
✦Big ideas · 5h 11m

The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot
✦Big ideas · 13h 44m

The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Ward Radcliffe
✦Big ideas · 19h 20m

The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux
✦Big ideas · 5h 40m

The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James
✦Big ideas · 14h 55m

The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
✦Big ideas · 5h 31m

The Scarlet Pimpernel
Baroness Orczy
✦Big ideas · 5h 42m

The Secret of Chimneys
Agatha Christie
✦Big ideas · 4h 58m

The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
✦Big ideas · 2h 50m

The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw, Covering End
Henry James
✦Big ideas · 5h 6m

The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins
✦Big ideas · 16h 1m

This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald
✦Big ideas · 5h 23m

Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
✦Big ideas · 7h 43m