Classic Fiction - Romance

• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureIn the delightful social comedy of Pride and Prejudice (1813) Jane Austen delicately handles the problem of love and money in marriage where,...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAntony and Cleopatra is a well-known tragedy by William Shakespeare. Its first known appearance in print came in the First Folio of 1...

• Author(s): Charlotte Bronte • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureBefore Jane Eyre, The Professor was the first novel written by Charlotte Bronte. It was published posthumously in 1857 and remains a cla...

• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureIn Persuasion, Jane Austen’s last completed novel, unpublished until her death, satire and ridicule become milder and the tone is more grave ...

• Author(s): D.H. Lawrence • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureWomen in Love, the book Lawrence considered his best, was written during World War I, and while that conflict is never mentioned in the nov...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureTwelfth Night is a tale of unrequited love, hilarious and heartbreaking, written around 1601-02 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment fo...

• Author(s): Thomas Hardy • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe story revolves around young and amorous but capricious Bathsheba Everdene and her enviable problem of coping with her three suitors simu...

• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureSense and Sensibility, the first of Austen’s novels to be published, remains as fresh as ever it was. The basic theme of the novel is concern...

• Author(s): Oliver Goldsmith • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureShe Stoops to Conquer is based on the two incidents of being the target of practical jokes, and being out on blind dates, creating a com...

• Author(s): Emily Bronte • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureWuthering Heights is a classic tale of possessive and thwarted passion, one of the forerunners of today's soap operas and romance novels. Th...

• Author(s): Charlotte Bronte • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureJane Eyre remains one of the most widely read of English Classics. In this novel, Charlotte Bronte invented a romantic tale of passion a...

• Author(s): Gustave Flaubert • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureOnce considered scandalizingly immoral, Flaubert’s exquisite debut novel unsparingly depicts a woman’s gradual corruption and the human ...

• Author(s): Nathaniel Hawthorne • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureA universal classic and a masterful exploration of humanity’s unending struggle with sin, guilt and pride, The Scarlet Letter is a fo...

• Author(s): William Congreve • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Way of the World is based around two lovers Mirabell and Millamant. In order for the two to get married and receive Millamant’s full...

• Author(s): D.H. Lawrence • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRegarded notoriously pornographic when published in 1928, the novel is a triumph of passion, an erotic celebration of life, exploring the e...

• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMansfield Park is a unique novel in its moral design, with a heroine remarkably different from the author’s previous creations. This young la...

• Author(s): Louisa May Alcott • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureLouisa M. Alcoa, (29th November, 1832, Germantown, 6th March, 1888, Pennsylvania Boston, Massachusetts), Was an American novelist, shor...

• Author(s): Thomas Hardy • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Return of the Native, both powerful and sombre, is considered to be the most representative of Hardy’s novels. It is set in Egdon Heath ...

• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureEmma was the last novel which Jane Austen lived to see through the press and is perhaps her most accomplished and representative work, happil...

• Author(s): Sir Walter Scott • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureScott’s most beloved and exciting adventure, Ivanhoe is a vivid recreation of Norman-Saxon conflict in 12th century England. Framing a r...

• Author(s): Henry James • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Portrait of a Lady (1881) is Henry James's early novel of psychological realism, in which various types of American character are transpl...

• Author(s): Thomas Hardy • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureJude the Obscure is a haunting love story and a raging indictment of Victorian society. In addition to its literary qualities, the novel is ...

• Author(s): D.H. Lawrence • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureSet in the rural midlands of England, The Rainbow chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family, conveying how their rur...