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literary-fiction

• Vanity Fair#William Makepeace Thackeray #public-domain #Satire #England #Fiction #Married women #Female friendship #Social classes #British #Europe #Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
• Les Misérables#Victor Hugo #public-domain #Historical fiction #Orphans #Fiction #Paris (France) #Epic literature #Ex-convicts
• Tess of the d’Urbervilles#Thomas Hardy #public-domain #Didactic fiction #Poor families #Fiction #Children of the rich #Triangles (Interpersonal relations) #Pastoral fiction #Children of clergy #Wessex (England) #Man-woman relationships #Women murderers #Rape victims #Women household employees
• The Picture of Dorian Gray#Oscar Wilde #public-domain #Appearance (Philosophy)--Fiction #Conduct of life--Fiction #Portraits--Fiction
• The Scarlet Letter#Nathaniel Hawthorne #public-domain #Adultery #Fiction #Historical fiction #Revenge #Psychological fiction #Married women #Clergy #Triangles (Interpersonal relations) #Illegitimate children #Women immigrants #Puritans #Boston (Mass.)
• Don Quixote#Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra #public-domain #Spain #Social life and customs #16th century #Fiction #Knights and knighthood #Picaresque literature #Romances
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn#Mark Twain #public-domain #Voyages and travels--Fiction #Slavery--Fiction #Mississippi River--Fiction #Missouri--Fiction
• War and Peace#Leo Tolstoy #public-domain #Historical fiction #War stories #Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 #Campaigns #Russia #Fiction #History #Alexander I, 1801-1825 #Aristocracy (Social class)
• Anna Karenina#Leo Tolstoy #public-domain #Adultery #Fiction #Didactic fiction #Love stories #Married women #Russia
• The Awakening#Kate Chopin #public-domain #Adultery #Fiction #Women #Louisiana #New Orleans #Social conditions #Self-actualization (Psychology) #New Orleans (La.) #Social life and customs
• Heart of Darkness#Joseph Conrad #public-domain #Europeans--Africa--Fiction #Trading posts--Fiction #Degeneration--Fiction #Imperialism--Fiction #Africa--Fiction
• Pride and Prejudice#Jane Austen #public-domain #England #Fiction #Young women #Love stories #Sisters #Domestic fiction #Courtship #Social classes
• Persuasion#Jane Austen #public-domain #England #Social life and customs #19th century #Fiction #Psychological fiction #Young women #Motherless families #Rejection (Psychology) #First loves #Dysfunctional families #Ship captains #Love stories
• Emma#Jane Austen #public-domain #Humorous stories #England #Fiction #Young women #Love stories #Fathers and daughters #Bildungsromans #Mate selection #Female friendship
• Dubliners#James Joyce #public-domain #Dublin (Ireland)--Fiction
• Moby Dick#Herman Melville #public-domain #Whaling #Fiction #Sea stories #Psychological fiction #Ship captains #Adventure stories #Mentally ill #Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) #Whales #Whaling ships
• Madame Bovary#Gustave Flaubert #public-domain #Adultery #Fiction #Domestic fiction #Married women #France #Middle class #Physicians' spouses #Suicide victims
• Middlemarch#George Eliot #public-domain #Didactic fiction #City and town life #Fiction #England #Young women #Love stories #Domestic fiction #Married people #Bildungsromans
• The Brothers Karamazov#Fyodor Dostoevsky #public-domain #Didactic fiction #Fathers and sons #Fiction #Russia #Social life and customs #1533-1917 #Brothers
• Crime and Punishment#Fyodor Dostoevsky #public-domain #Detective and mystery stories #Psychological fiction #Russia #Fiction #Saint Petersburg (Russia)
• The Great Gatsby#F. Scott Fitzgerald #public-domain #Traffic accidents--Fiction #First loves--Fiction #Rich people--Fiction #Mistresses--Fiction #Revenge--Fiction #Long Island (N.Y.)--Fiction #Psychological fiction
• Wuthering Heights#Emily Brontë #public-domain #Revenge #Fiction #Psychological fiction #Rejection (Psychology) #Love stories #Domestic fiction #Yorkshire (England) #Foundlings #Rural families #Heathcliff (Fictitious character : Brontë) #Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
• The Age of Innocence#Edith Wharton #public-domain #New York (N.Y.) #Fiction #Love stories #Domestic fiction #Married people #Triangles (Interpersonal relations) #Separated people #Upper class
• Jane Eyre#Charlotte Brontë #public-domain #Orphans #Fiction #England #Young women #Love stories #Governesses #Fathers and daughters #Mentally ill women #Charity-schools #Married people #Country homes #Bildungsromans
• Great Expectations#Charles Dickens #public-domain #Orphans #Fiction #England #Revenge #Bildungsromans #Young men #Man-woman relationships #Ex-convicts #Benefactors
• A Tale of Two Cities#Charles Dickens #public-domain #Historical fiction #France #History #Revolution, 1789-1799 #Fiction #London (England) #18th century #War stories #Executions and executioners #French #England #London
• A Christmas Carol#Charles Dickens #public-domain #Christmas stories #London (England) #Fiction #Poor families #Ghost stories #Misers #Sick children #Scrooge, Ebenezer (Fictitious character)
• Short Fiction#Anton Chekhov #public-domain #Russia #Social life and customs #Fiction #Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 #Translations into English
• Eloisa: or, A series of original letters#Jean-Jacques Rousseau #public-domain #Alps Region #History #18th century #Fiction #Epistolary fiction #French fiction #Translations into English #Man-woman relationships #Psychological fiction #Women
• The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia#Philip Sidney #public-domain #Pastoral literature, English
• The Blue Castle: a novel#L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery #public-domain #Canada #History #1914-1945 #Fiction #Choice (Psychology) #Love #Romance fiction #Self-actualization (Psychology) #Single women #Young adult fiction
• A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill#Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice #public-domain #Kentucky #Fiction
• History of Tom Jones, a Foundling#Henry Fielding #public-domain #Bildungsromans #England #Fiction #Foundlings #Humorous stories #Identity (Psychology) #Young men
• The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot#Holman Day #public-domain #Political corruption #Fiction #Water-supply
• Complete Short Works of George Meredith#George Meredith #public-domain #English fiction #19th century
• Cranford#Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell #public-domain #England #Fiction #Female friendship #Older women #Pastoral fiction #Sisters #Villages
• The Red Lily — Complete#Anatole France #public-domain #France #Fiction #French fiction #Translations into English #Italy #Man-woman relationships
• On the Cross: A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau#Wilhelmine von Hillern #public-domain #Oberammergau (Germany) #Fiction #Oberammergauer Passionsspiel
• King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table#Malory, Thomas, Sir #public-domain #Arthurian romances
• Doctor Cupid: A Novel#Rhoda Broughton #public-domain #English fiction #Welsh authors
• The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay#Mary Wollstonecraft #public-domain #Authors, English #18th century #Correspondence #Feminists #Great Britain #Imlay, Gilbert, 1754?-1828? #Love-letters #Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797
• The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn; With Notes#King of England Henry VIII #public-domain #Correspondence #Great Britain #Kings and rulers #Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 #Love-letters #Early works to 1800
• Cynthia's Chauffeur#Louis Tracy #public-domain #Americans #England #Fiction #Chauffeurs #Love stories
• The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 20#Robert Louis Stevenson #public-domain #French #England #Fiction #Prisoners of war
• The Passionate Friends#H. G. (Herbert George) Wells #public-domain #Triangles (Interpersonal relations) #Fiction
• Moods#Louisa May Alcott #public-domain #Young women #Fiction
• Robert Orange: Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange#John Oliver Hobbes #public-domain #Religious fiction
• The Sorrows of Young Werther#Johann Wolfgang von Goethe #public-domain #Germany #Social life and customs #Fiction #Unrequited love #Young men
• Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast#Holman Day #public-domain #Love stories #Ship captains #Fiction #Yachts
• The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance#Lucas Malet #public-domain #Cousins #Fiction #Lesbians #Mothers and sons #People with disabilities #Psychological fiction #Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
• The Car of Destiny#C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williams #public-domain #Spain #Fiction
• Monte-Cristo's Daughter#Edmund Flagg #public-domain #Dantès, Edmond (Fictitious character) #Fiction #Domestic fiction #Fathers and daughters #France
• A pair of blue eyes#Thomas Hardy #public-domain #Didactic fiction #Elopement #Fiction #Separation (Psychology) #Triangles (Interpersonal relations) #Wessex (England)
• Sense and Sensibility#Jane Austen #public-domain #Domestic fiction #England #Fiction #Social life and customs #19th century #Gentry #Inheritance and succession #Love stories #Mate selection #Regency fiction #Sisters #Social classes
• The Expedition of Humphry Clinker#T. (Tobias) Smollett #public-domain #Epistolary fiction #Great Britain #Fiction #Travelers
• Torchy and Vee#Sewell Ford #public-domain #Humorous stories #New York (N.Y.) #Fiction #Private secretaries #World War, 1914-1918 #United States
• Henrietta Temple: A Love Story#Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield #public-domain #Aristocracy (Social class) #Fiction #Autobiographical fiction #Dandies #London (England) #Love stories #Upper class families
• The Prairie Wife#Arthur Stringer #public-domain #Canada #Fiction #Frontier and pioneer life #Prairie Provinces
• Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame#Francesco Colonna #public-domain #Dreams #Fiction #Italian fiction #15th century #Translations into English #Romances
• Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor#R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore #public-domain #Exmoor (England) #Fiction #Historical fiction #Love stories #Monmouth's Rebellion, 1685
• The Enchanted April#Elizabeth Von Arnim #public-domain #British #Italy #Fiction #Domestic fiction #Female friendship #Love stories
• Camille (La Dame aux Camilias)#Alexandre Dumas #public-domain #Courtesans #Fiction #Fathers and sons #Love stories #Paris (France) #Tuberculosis #Patients
• The Romance of Tristan and Iseult#Joseph Bédier #public-domain #Arthurian romances #Adaptations #Iseult (Legendary character) #Romances #Tristan (Legendary character)
• Twenty years after#Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet #public-domain #France #History #Louis XIV, 1643-1715 #Fiction
• Love and Freindship [sic]#Jane Austen #public-domain #England #Social life and customs #18th century #Fiction #Epistolary fiction #Essays
• The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood#Howard Pyle #public-domain #Folklore #England #Robin Hood (Legendary character) #Legends