A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the restrained culture of Edwardian era England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a humorous critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. 

A Parisian Sultana by Adolphe Belot

A Parisian Sultana, written by Adolphe Belot, is set in 1872 and 1873, is about Laura de Guéran, a wealthy young widow living in Paris. She is 25 years old, of average height, “admirably proportioned…fair, decidedly fair” with a “well turned neck,” a “full, though not too full bust;” her “whole countenance is a strange mixture of good nature and firmness, of amiability and resolution, of gaiety and sadness.” De Guéran is the daughter of a member of the Royal Geographical Society and as a child and teenager she knew “most of the celebrated travelers of our age,” including Overweg, Speke, Richardson, Vogel, and Schweinfurth. When she turned 22 she fell in love with and married the wealthy French explorer the Baron de Guéran, and moved with him to Paris. Although English by birth she quickly fell in love with Paris and the French and became a French patriot. With her husband she enjoyed two years of married bliss.

Then he disappeared, somewhere in Egypt, and she was notified that he was dead. After a year’s mourning she summons three men to her apartment; the three are in love with her and have all proposed marriage to her. She tells them that she is going to Africa to find her husband’s remains and to see where he fell and why and to “publish his works,” and that the three should come with her. One of the men, a doctor, declines on the grounds that his mother is dying and he must stay with her. This is hard for him, because he clearly loves her, and she is genuinely sorry that he is not accompanying her. The other two agree, and together with an older doctor and a reliable female Cockney maid/companion they go to Africa.

A Parisian Sultana follows their travels through Saharan Africa and the adventures they have there. They encounter enemy tribes, rampaging elephants, and slavers, and survive abandonment by their native guides. After Laura and her friends discover that Laura’s husband might still be alive in a country on the southeast coast of Africa, they trek there, picking up an army of native warriors on the way (their king falls in love with Laura and is persuaded to accompany her south). They eventually find the Baron, who has been made the lover/prisoner of the beautiful, powerful, and majestic queen Walinda, a “black Venus” in charge of a great army of ferocious Amazon warriors. Laura’s forces defeat Walinda’s army in pitched battle. The Baron attempts to escape from Walinda, but she falls on him with her spiked armor and badly wounds him.
Walinda is captured by Laura. Walinda tries to kill Laura, to regain the Baron (who she is in love with), but she kills the Baron instead and then drowns herself out of grief. The group returns to Paris and Laura marries the doctor, who after the death of his mother travels into Africa to find Laura.

A Parisian Sultana is both a well-informed travelogue through Saharan and sub-Saharan Africa and an entertaining and well-written adventure and romance novel with Lost Race elements. Adolphe Belot had clearly traveled through Africa and knew well the areas he wrote about in AA Parisian Sultana ; his descriptions are memorable, especially of urban Cairo and rural Egypt. Moreover, Belot is progressive in his portrayal of Africans. He is refreshingly free of racism, and he treats the African tribes and characters with respect. Belot is also vehemently anti-slavery and gives a grueling description of the conditions on a slave ship on the Nile.

But the main attraction of the novel is the character of Laura de Guéran herself. She is resolute, well-spoken, confident but not arrogant or vain, sensible, fearless, kind, calm and self-possessed. She speaks several languages, is an experienced traveler and is scientifically aware. Like Belot, she is not a racist but treats everyone with respect, from porters to kings and queens.

A Modern Madonna by Caroline Abbot Stanley

A romantic tale of lust, greed, goodness, and valor.  Mix that in with nefarious men and unhappy women, and this novel is difficult to put down.

A Minion of the Moon by T. W. Speight

One of Speight's best novels in this creepy romance tale of love and thrills.

A Man's World by Albert Edwards

An autobiographical tale of a man's life, loves, family, friends, and surroundings.

A Girl of Virginia by Lucy Thruston and Charles Grunwald

A romance and adventure about a young woman growing up and falling in love in Virginia.

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A Gentleman of Courage by James Oliver Curwood.

A thrilling tale of the wilderness and romance.

A Fair Jewess by B. L. Farjeon

A thrilling, detailed account of love affairs and grand amounts of money.  Full of intrigue, suspense, and misguided love, this is a romance not to be missed, or soon forgotten.

A Daughter of theDons by William Mcleod Raine

A Western story of romance and adventure, comprising a vivacious and stirring tale. A hunted man accused of murder witnesses a cattle stampede which results in the death of a herder, and seizes the opportunity to assume the dead man's identity.

William McCleod Raine's books are HERE.

A Dangerrous Flirtation by Laura Jean Libbey.
This is a strange books with a LOT going on in it.  It has everything:  mystery, romance, suspense, adventure, even some other things.  You might want to try this one, it's a real winner.

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By Right of Conquest by Arthur Hornblow Paperback

A romantic shipwreck adventure.  Two people:  A very rich woman, and a very poor man, are the survivors of a disaster at sea.  They are trapped together on a desert island.  There is tension between them because of financial class and general attitude.  The tension builds into need.  She needs him to help them survive.,Eventually, they both learn.  But we can't spoil it.  Suffice it to say that it is NOT the way you might think.  Recmmended.

Doorway to Death by Dan Marlowe

On the streets of a big city people smile and the lights are bright. But there is an alley world of darkness, double-dealing and death; in this world you need muscles and brains to take a step--and only the lucky ones live long. These two worlds meet in Hotel Duarte. Johnny Killain had a fistful of experience with both worlds--and with Hotel Duarte. Lurid and sexy, this is a thrilling tale.

Dan J. Marlowe was a middle-aged businessman who, in the personal turmoil after the death of his wife of many years, decided to abandon his old life. He started writing, and his first novel was published when he was 45.

Marlowe's most famous book and his best-known character arrived from Fawcett Gold Medal Books in 1962 ("The Name of the Game Is Death").

Cy Whitaker's Place by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Cy Whittaker left Bayport as a young man, vowing never to return. After he makes his fortune at sea, however, he changes his mind and comes back to the old homestead. All his relatives are dead and he has to start from scratch to make a name for himself in the community. Sounds simple enough. But add in an abandoned child, a fiesty school teacher, a corrupt politician and a few vicious gossips, and you’ve got quite a page turner.
Joseph Crosby Lincoln (a.k.a Joseph C. Lincoln) was an American author of novels, poems, and short stories, many set in a fictionalized Cape Cod. Lincoln's work frequently appeared in popular magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post and The Delineator.

Lincoln was aware of contemporary naturalist writers, such as Frank Norris and Theodore Dreiser, who used American literature to plumb the depths of human nature, but he rejected this literary exercise. Lincoln claimed that he was satisfied "spinning yarns" that made readers feel good about themselves and their neighbors. Two of his stories have been adapted to film.

Lincoln was born in Brewster, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, but his mother moved the family to Chelsea, Massachusetts, a manufacturing city outside of Boston, after the death of his father. Lincoln's literary career celebrating "old Cape Cod" can partly be seen as an attempt to return to an Eden from which he had been driven by family tragedy. His literary portrayal of Cape Cod can also be understood as a pre-modern haven occupied by individuals of old Yankee stock which was offered to readers as an antidote to an America that was undergoing rapid modernization, urbanization, immigration, and industrialization. Lincoln was a Republican and a Universalist.

Upon becoming successful, Lincoln spent his winters in northern New Jersey, near the center of the publishing world in Manhattan, but summered in Chatham, Massachusetts. In Chatham, he lived in a shingle-style house named "Crosstrees" that was located on a bluff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.

Lincoln died in 1944, at the age of 73, in Winter Park, Florida.

Dr. Syn by Russell Thorndike

Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh is the first in the series of Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndike. In this story we are introduced to the complex Christopher Syn, the kindly vicar of the little town of Dymchurch. Syn seems pleasant but we soon learn that he has a sinister past. At one time he was the vicious pirate Captain Clegg and he is also the mysterious "Scarecrow of Romney Marsh", masked leader of the local smugglers.

In the other books of the series Syn is presented as a hero, but here he is a much darker character. He moves from the personality of the gentle clergyman to that of bloodthirsty pirate with frightening ease. In the end he is murdered by a former pirate crewman who, as Clegg, he had left to die years before.

Though it was written first, the events of this story follow the rest of the series. Together, the series shows the subtle decline of a good man into madness and show the dark side of the swashbuckling romantic hero.

Doctor Syn was published in 1915. Though it is the first book written in the series it follows the events of Shadow of Doctor Syn. 

Dorrien of Cranston by Bertram Mitford

At odds with his family and especially his father, Dorrien leaves and sets out for adventure in England and elsewhere, little knowing that soon, he would meet the woman of his life.  This is a suspenseful romance full of adventure and daring-do.

General Dorrien sits at the breakfast table in the cheerful dining-room at Cranston Hall, with a frown upon his face and an open letter in his hand. He is a handsome man, with severe, regular features; a man of whom his dependents would certainly stand in awe, and his family would fear more than love. There is sternness in the glance of his keen eyes, in the cut of the closely-trimmed grey moustache and whisker, and in every movement of the erect military figure. A man of iron will, not to be turned aside from his own hard and fast rule of right and wrong by any consideration-what chance had the foibles and follies of youth with one of this mould? And there he sits, motionless, gazing upon the open letter, the frown deepening upon his brow.

Bertram Mitford (13 June 1855 – 4 October 1914) was a colonial writer, novelist, essayist and cultural critic who wrote forty-four books, most of which are set in South Africa.

He was a contemporary of H Rider Haggard. A member of the Mitford family, he was the third son of Edward Ledwich Osbaldeston Mitford (1811–1912). The latter became the 31st Lord of the Manor of Mitford in 1895 (following the death of his brother Colonel John Philip Osbaldeston Mitford) and died at Mitford Hall, Northumberland, in 1912.

Bertram Mitford was born in Bath in 1855, educated at Hurstpierpoint College in Sussex, went to South Africa in 1874, living in Cheltenham 1881, married Zima Helen Gentle, daughter of Alfred Ebden, 9 March 1886 in Brighton, had daughter Yseulte Helen 3 June 1887 (died July 1969), had son Roland Bertram 17 June 1891 (died 16 April 1932), living in London 1891, and died in Cowfold, Sussex of liver disease in 1914.

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Traslated by John Ormsby

One of the earliest novels in a modern European language, one which many people consider the finest book in the Spanish language.

Doc Gordon by Mary Wilkins Freeman

Against the familiar background of American town life, the author portrays a group of people strangely involved in a mystery. "Doc." Gordon, the one physician of the place, Dr. Elliot, his assistant, a beautiful woman and her altogether charming daughter are all involved in the plot.

Diana Trelawny by Margaret Oiliphant

A coming of age and tale of romance by Margaret Oliphant.

Diana trelawny was a great heiress in the ordinary sense of the word, though the term was one which she objected to strongly. She was rather a great proprietor and landowner, no longer looking forward to any in heritance, but in full possession of it. She had a fine estate, a fine old English house, and a great deal of money in all kinds of stocks and securities. Besides this, she was a handsome woman, quite sufficiently handsome in the light of her wealth to be called beauti ful - not a girl, a beautiful woman of thirty, with some talents, a great deal of character, and a most enviable and desirable position. She was not, indeed, chairman.

Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (née Margaret Oliphant Wilson), was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works encompass "domestic realism, the historical novel and tales of the supernatural".

Margaret Oliphant was born at Wallyford, near Musselburgh, East Lothian, and spent her childhood at Lasswade (near Dalkeith), Glasgow and Liverpool. As a girl, she constantly experimented with writing. In 1849 she had her first novel published: Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland which dealt with the Scottish Free Church movement. It was followed by Caleb Field in 1851, the year in which she met the publisher William Blackwood in Edinburgh and was invited to contribute to the famous Blackwood's Magazine. The connection was to last for her whole lifetime, during which she contributed well over 100 articles, including, a critique of the character of Arthur Dimmesdale in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.

A Creature of the Night by Fergus Hume.

Fergus Hume's Gothic mystery begins one evening in late-nineteenth-century Verona, when a young Englishman loses his way and finds himself lost in an eerie graveyard. Seeing a mysterious woman emerge from one of the tombs, he follows her to a deserted mansion, where he witnesses a murder worthy of the Borgias. How can such a crime take place undetected in the prosaic nineteenth century? And is the woman a vampire? a ghoul? or an altogether more earthly villain...?

A fin-de-siecle crime thriller from the author of The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, this is a classic Victorian mystery dripping with period atmosphere and and Italian romance.
Fergus Hume has written a number of intriguing and thrilling novels of romance and mystery and thrillers.  They are available HERE.

A Butterfly on the Wheel by C. Ranger Gull
This is a classic detective and tale of romance.  Throw in some adventure and suspense, and it's a Gothic romance with a twist.

A Black Adonis by Albert Ross

Linn Boyd Porter (1851-1916), who wrote under the pseudonym Albert Ross, was a popular American author. His works include: Caring for No Man (1875), Thou Shalt Not (1889), His Private Character (1889), Speaking of Ellen (1890), In Stella's Shadow (1890), Moulding a Maiden (1891), Her Husband's Friend (1891), The Garston Bigamy (1892), Why I'm Single (1892), Thy Neighbor's Wife (1892), An Original Sinner (1893), Young Miss Giddy (1893), Love at Seventy (1894), A Black Adonis (1895), Young Fawcett's Mabel (1895), His Foster Sister (1896), Their Marriage Bond (1897), A New Sensation (1898), That Gay Deceiver! (1899), The Naked Truth (1899), Stranger Than Fiction (1900), A Sugar Princess (1900) and Riverfall (1903).

1492 by Mary Johnston

A classic romance and historical tale.

n the 15th century, a fabulous journey awaited those who could unlock the secrets of the Earth's geography. Beautifully written and emotionally compelling, 1492: Admiral of the Ocean-Sea tells of the famous adventures of Columbus and his men, who sailed into the almost mythical seas beyond the horizon in search of the "New World," in the hopes of attaining vast wealth and power. This brilliant book, by best-selling author Mary Johnston, traces the long route taken by explorers hoping to locate Asia. Based on their limited means and understanding of navigation, they struggle to find their position, while at the same time encountering many natural wonders and exotic peoples. Tensions build as they appear to become increasingly lost. Columbus and his crew begin to lose hope, until they finally receive the vindication of their bold vision. 1492: Admiral of the Ocean-Sea pays special attention to the conditions of the late 15th century period. It describes the competition between classes and ethnic groups in Spain, as well as the clashes that occurred when people from two very different cultures, native American and European, interact. These issues are not merely abstract, since we see them vividly through the eyes of a disenfranchised individual: a Christian sailor of Jewish background, who has been compelled to lead a secretive and solitary existence. The incidents of his life are brought to us in a handsome, elegant language.

Mary Johnston (November 21, 1870 - May 9, 1936) was an American novelist and women's rights advocate from Virginia. She was one of America's best selling authors during her writing career and had three silent films adapted from her novels.

December Love by Robert Hicens

The central character is a once-beautiful and glorious Lady in her December years. She represents her class and empire as she struggles to accept loss of power and loss of youth. Then enters a dashing young man who breaks with convention and becomes fascinated with her.