Genre: Romance (79 books)

Oscar and Lucinda

Peter Carey

If there was a bishop, my mother would have him to tea.

Bonjour Tristesse

Françoise Sagan

A strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sadness.

Eugene Onegin

Alexander Pushkin

'My uncle, man of firm convictions... By falling gravely ill, he's won A due respect for his afflictions-- The only clever thing he's done. (James E. Falen translation)

Daniel Deronda

George Eliot

Was she beautiful or not beautiful? and what was the secret of form or expression which gave the dynamic quality to her glance?

Girls in Love

Jacqueline Wilson

Point Counter Point

Aldous Huxley

'You won't be late?'

The Pursuit of Love

Nancy Mitford

There is a photograph in existence of Aunt Sadie and her six children sitting round the tea-table at Alconleigh.

Snow Country

Yasunari Kawabata

The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.

Katherine

Anya Seton

In the tender green time of April, Katherine set forth at last upon her journey with two nuns and the royal messenger.

Under the Net

Iris Murdoch

When I saw Finn waiting for me at the corner of the street I knew at once that something had gone wrong. Finn usually waits for me in bed, or leaning up against the side of the door with his eyes closed.