Popular romance and melodrama

9 books

A Beautiful AlienJulia Magruder · 1900A 1900 novel by Julia Magruder about a beautiful young Italian woman newly married to an American, seen aboard an ocean steamer by Albert Noel, a lawyer who wishes he were an artist and becomes fascinated by her.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

A Black AdonisLinn Boyd Porter · 1887A late nineteenth-century novel by Albert Ross (pseudonym of Linn Boyd Porter) following young aspiring novelist Shirley Roseleaf, whose rejected manuscript leads him into romantic entanglements and a story addressing racial prejudice through the central question of color.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

A Wounded NameCharles King · 1898An 1898 army novel by Captain Charles King set in territorial Arizona, where Lieutenant Blake, posted to desert duty after a romantic disappointment, encounters soldiers, settlers, and intrigue surrounding a shady ranch keeper and the arrival of a mysterious figure from his past.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Alonzo and Melissa; Or, The Unfeeling Father: An American TaleI. Mitchell · 1811A sentimental early nineteenth-century American romance novel, this tale follows Alonzo, a young Connecticut lawyer, who falls in love with Melissa, the sister of his close friend, while rival suitor Beauman also courts her, testing the lovers' reliance on Providence through affliction and separation.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Cruel as the graveEmma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth · 1856Cruel as the Grave is a sentimental nineteenth-century novel by E. D. E. N. Southworth, first published in 1856. It follows newlyweds Lyon and Sybil Berners, whose intense, jealous love is shadowed by forebodings of impending calamity and dark family fate.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Dainty's Cruel Rivals; Or, The Fatal BirthdayAlex. McVeigh Miller · 1890An 1890 dime novel romance by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller. It follows Dainty Chase, a young woman whose jealous cousins scheme to keep her from a trip to the Ellsworth estate, where she unknowingly draws the interest of the heir they hope to marry.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Her mother's secretEmma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth · 1880A novel by E. D. E. N. Southworth in which Elfrida Force urges her daughter Odalite to break off her anticipated marriage to her cousin Leonidas and consider another suitor, promising to reveal a secret from her own past that will explain the family's need for Odalite's sacrifice.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

MacariaAugusta J. Evans · 1864A novel by Augusta J. Evans, first published in 1864, following Russell Aubrey, a brilliant but poor young man burdened by his father's disgrace, and his cousin Electra, as their lives unfold against hardship, family devotion, and the upheaval of the Civil War.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898Levi Jackson Hamilton · 1900A 1900 romance novel by Carson Jay Lee, published under the name Levi Jackson Hamilton, following Oswald Langdon through murder, mystery, and pursuit across London, India, and America from 1894 to 1898, as conspirators Pierre and Paul Lanier face eventual justice.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية