The Best Literary Romance
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Romance is not just a genre fiction category.
It is also one of the basic forms of the literary novel. Specifically, the
womens' "rite of passage" novel is often in the form of a romance. Great
literary romance novels include everything from Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca to
Leonid Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
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Allende, Isabel |
House of the Spirits |
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Austen, Jane |
Emma |
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Austen, Jane |
Mansfield Park |
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Austen, Jane |
Pride and Prejudice |
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Austen, Jane |
Sense and Sensibility |
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Blackmoor, R.D. |
Lorna Doone |
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Bronte, Charlotte |
Jane Eyre |
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Bronte, Emily |
Wuthering Heights |
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Byatt, A.S. |
Possession |
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Conrad, Joseph |
Amy Foster |
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Defoe, Daniel |
Moll Flanders |
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Du Maurier, Daphne |
Jamaica Inn |
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Du Maurier, Daphne |
Rebecca |
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Fitzgerald, F.Scott |
The Great Gatsby |
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Flaubert, Gustav |
Madame Bovary |
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Forster, E.M. |
A Room With a View |
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Forster, E.M. |
Howard's End |
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Garcia Marquez, Gabriel |
Love in the Time of Cholera |
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Hardy, Thomas |
Tess of The d'Urbervilles |
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Hardy, Thomas |
The Return of the Native |
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
The Scarlett Letter |
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Heyer, Georgette |
Devil’s Cub |
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Heyer, Georgette |
Frederica |
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Heyer, Georgette |
The Talisman Ring |
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Heyer, Georgette |
These Old Shades |
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James, Henry |
The Portrait of a Lady |
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Mitchell, Margaret |
Gone With the Wind |
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Pasternak, Boris |
Dr. Zhivago |
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Patchett, Ann |
Bel Canto |
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Patchett, Ann |
The Magician's Assistant |
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Tolstoy, Leo |
Anna Karenina |
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Waugh, Evelyn |
Brideshead Revisited |
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Winterson, Jeanette |
The Passion |
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Woolf, Virginia |
Mrs. Dalloway |
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