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Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen$2.99 4.2Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë$2.99 4.0Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë$2.99 4.1Lady Chatterley’s LoverD. H. Lawrence$2.99 3.0Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy$2.99 4.1Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert$2.99 3.7Dangerous LiaisonsPierre Choderlos de Laclos$2.99 3.9The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald$2.99 4.0The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde$2.99 4.2DraculaBram Stoker$2.99 4.0PersuasionJane Austen$2.99 4.1North and SouthElizabeth Gaskell$2.99The Age of InnocenceEdith Wharton$2.99 3.5Romeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare$2.99The AwakeningKate Chopin$2.99 3.5Tess of the d’UrbervillesThomas Hardy$2.99 4.1Sense and SensibilityJane Austen$2.99 3.9The Phantom of the OperaGaston Leroux$2.99Bel AmiGuy de Maupassant$2.99The Blue CastleL. M. Montgomery$2.99 3.8The House of MirthEdith Wharton$2.99 4.1FrankensteinMary Shelley$2.99 4.0The Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne$2.99 3.4Vanity FairWilliam Makepeace Thackeray$2.99 4.4

Forbidden love

Love that defies family, marriage or society.

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Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy$2.99 4.1Lady Chatterley’s LoverD. H. Lawrence$2.99 3.0Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert$2.99 3.7The Age of InnocenceEdith Wharton$2.99 3.5Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë$2.99 4.1The AwakeningKate Chopin$2.99 3.5Romeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare$2.99Ethan FromeEdith Wharton$2.99 4.0The Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne$2.99 3.4Antony and CleopatraWilliam Shakespeare$2.99 3.6The Sorrows of Young WertherJ. W. von Goethe$2.99 3.7Women in LoveD. H. Lawrence$2.99 3.7The RainbowD. H. Lawrence$2.99

Slow burn

Glances, letters and years of longing before the first kiss.

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PersuasionJane Austen$2.99 4.1Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë$2.99 4.0North and SouthElizabeth Gaskell$2.99Sense and SensibilityJane Austen$2.99 3.9The Age of InnocenceEdith Wharton$2.99 3.5EmmaJane Austen$2.99 4.0Far from the Madding CrowdThomas Hardy$2.99 3.7VilletteCharlotte Brontë$2.99Mansfield ParkJane Austen$2.99 3.3MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot$2.99 4.1The Portrait of a LadyHenry James$2.99

Enemies to lovers

They can’t stand each other, until they can’t stand to be apart.

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Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen$2.99 4.2North and SouthElizabeth Gaskell$2.99Much Ado About NothingWilliam Shakespeare$2.99 4.3The Taming of the ShrewWilliam Shakespeare$2.99 3.4EmmaJane Austen$2.99 4.0

Gothic & haunting

Vampires, haunted houses and gothic romance.

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DraculaBram Stoker$2.99 4.0Carmilla and Other StoriesJ. Sheridan Le Fanu$2.99Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë$2.99 4.1The Phantom of the OperaGaston Leroux$2.99The MonkM. G. Lewis$2.99The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde$2.99 4.2The Mysteries of UdolphoAnn Radcliffe$2.99Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë$2.99 4.0FrankensteinMary Shelley$2.99 4.0The Turn of the ScrewHenry James$2.99BasilWilkie Collins$2.99The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeRobert Louis Stevenson$2.99The King in YellowRobert W. Chambers$2.99 4.0

Society & intrigue

Schemers, social climbers and the worlds they upended.

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Dangerous LiaisonsPierre Choderlos de Laclos$2.99 3.9Bel AmiGuy de Maupassant$2.99Lady Chatterley’s LoverD. H. Lawrence$2.99 3.0Vanity FairWilliam Makepeace Thackeray$2.99 4.4Moll FlandersDaniel Defoe$2.99The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde$2.99 4.2The DecameronGiovanni Boccaccio$2.99 4.1The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingHenry Fielding$2.99Don JuanLord Byron$2.99The House of MirthEdith Wharton$2.99 4.1The Canterbury TalesGeoffrey Chaucer$2.99 3.3Hedda GablerHenrik Ibsen$2.99The Beautiful and DamnedF. Scott Fitzgerald$2.99 4.1

Heartbreak

Love stories that don’t end well, and are better for it.

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Tess of the d’UrbervillesThomas Hardy$2.99 4.1Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy$2.99 4.1The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald$2.99 4.0The House of MirthEdith Wharton$2.99 4.1Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert$2.99 3.7Ethan FromeEdith Wharton$2.99 4.0Jude the ObscureThomas Hardy$2.99 3.9The Sorrows of Young WertherJ. W. von Goethe$2.99 3.7The Mill on the FlossGeorge Eliot$2.99Romeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare$2.99Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens$2.99 3.8My ÁntoniaWilla Cather$2.99

Happily ever after

Witty heroines, second chances and the ending you hoped for.

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Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen$2.99 4.2PersuasionJane Austen$2.99 4.1The Blue CastleL. M. Montgomery$2.99 3.8The Enchanted AprilElizabeth von Arnim$2.99EmmaJane Austen$2.99 4.0North and SouthElizabeth Gaskell$2.99Much Ado About NothingWilliam Shakespeare$2.99 4.3Sense and SensibilityJane Austen$2.99 3.9Northanger AbbeyJane Austen$2.99 3.8A Midsummer Night’s DreamWilliam Shakespeare$2.99The Scarlet PimpernelBaroness Orczy$2.99 4.3The Importance of Being EarnestOscar Wilde$2.99 4.2

Love poetry

Sonnets, odes and verse for the bedside table.

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Sonnets from the PortugueseElizabeth Barrett Browning$2.99Sonnets and PoemsWilliam Shakespeare$2.99PoemsJohn Keats$2.99Don JuanLord Byron$2.99Leaves of GrassWalt Whitman$2.99 3.9
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