Romance

A light romantic comedy set in a blockaded Caribbean republic, where American visitors collide with revolution, plague, and…

A comic novel about Darcy Cole, a self-described nice girl who reinvents herself and must sustain an elaborate…

Beniowski is an unfinished digressive narrative poem by Juliusz Słowacki, written in ottava rima and dominated by an…

An early Romantic poem by Juliusz Słowacki exploring imagination, memory and the emotional roots of romantic love.

A collection of seventeenth-century love letters by Cyrano de Bergerac, recovered from a single manuscript and printed with…

Mircea Eliade's Miss Christina is a haunting novella of a vampire's ghost haunting a Romanian estate, blurring reality…

Bengal Nights is Mircea Eliade's confessional novel of desire, cultural misunderstanding, and guilt in colonial Calcutta.

Cécile is Benjamin Constant's autobiographical novel of a brilliant man who sees his own traps but cannot escape…

Benjamin Constant's Adolphe is a confessional psychological novel about a young man's vanity, indecision, and doomed love for…

A prose romance set in primeval North Wales, following a shepherdess abducted by a magician who commands spirits…

A comic play of arranged marriage, escape, and the fate that waits at the end of the road.

W. E. B. Du Bois's 1911 novel uses cotton to expose economic exploitation and racial injustice in the…

André Maurois's Ariel retells the life of Percy Bysshe Shelley as a romantic legend, from rebellious schooldays to…

Climates is André Maurois's novel of two mirrored confessions in which the same failure to love well recurs…

Les Impudents was Marguerite Duras's first published novel, appearing in 1943 when she was twenty-nine years old.