Popular romance and melodrama
3 books
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.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية
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.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية
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.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية