ROMANCE
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101 ROMANTIC IDEAS
By: Michael Webb
IDEA # 1
If your partner is going away for a few days, tell her that you are worried about her so you have organized a bodyguard to look after her. Then give her a small teddy bear.
IDEA # 2
Buy a packet of glow in the dark stars and stick the stars on the roof above your bed to spell out a message such as "I Love You" When the lights go down, your message will be revealed!
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Adam Bede
By: George Eliot
George Eliot takes the well-worn tale of a lovely dairy-maid seduced by a careless squire, and out if it creates a
portrait of the lives of ordinary Midlands working people -- their labors and loves, their beliefs, their speech.
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Alexander's Bridge
By: Willa Cather
The story of a successful engineer whose life contains everything but happiness. Then he meets an old love, an Irish actress, and begins a clandestine affair, and not only his marriage but his entire universe is threatened.
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Anna Karenina
By: Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society.
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Bardelys the Magnificent
Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)
By: Rafael Sabatini
Rafael Sabatini (April 29, 1875 - February 13, 1950) was an Italian/British writer of novels of romance and adventure.
Bardelys the Magnificent is an absorbing story of love and adventure in France of the early seventeenth century.
Bardelys (called Magnificent for the fine quality of his hospitality) tried to demur. It was madness, plain and simple. But them the rustic Gascon pointed out that it had become a matter of honor,
and then there was no hope for it.
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Better Sex For Men And Women Tonight
by Maurice Tate
Discover how to improve your sex and intimacy with some simple tips and techniques for both men and women.
Every woman (or man) is different and what is sensual and orgasmic for one could be a turn off for another.
Sex is the attraction caused by the interplay of the masculine and feminine as opposites attract. Even in gay couples, one will tend to be active and one passive.
A woman usually needs to feel loved and desired before she becomes interested in sex.
Some women have told me that sex starts 12 hours before bed.
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Brother Jacob
By George Eliot
Narrated by an egocentric, morbid young clairvoyant man, the story also explores fiction's ability to offer insight into the self, as well as being a remarkable portrait of an artist
whose visionary powers merely blight his life.
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Camille
By: Alexandre Dumas, fils
Also called "The Lady of the Camelias" ("La dame aux camélias" in French)
The story is set in Paris during the mid 1800's.
The lead heroine is Marguerite Gautier, a young beautiful courtesan who is a "kept woman" by counts and dukes - men of "Fashionable Society". She meets a young middle class lover Armand Duval
who does the unpardonable thing of falling jealously in love with her and breaking all convention of what's expected between a courtesan and her admirers. He, of course, has no way of sustaining
the standard of living which she is accustom.
In her fragile physical state (Marguerite has tuberculosis which we learn later) she moves to the country. There in her new house, a confrontation between the jealous Armand and her rich admirers
and "benefactors" takes place. For the first time she sticks up for her lover - making a life choice - and they are left indignantly and alone.
Armand becomes depressed, his career seems doomed by the intolerance of French society, and knowing he will never be able to support Marguerite to the level she deserves. Unbeknownst to Armand,
his father comes to plead for her to leave Armand to save both his son's reputation and that of his younger innocent sister - whom is also tainted by the scandal. To prove her love, she agrees
and leaves Armand. She returns to Paris where she despairingly throws herself back into her old lifestyle. Armand can't believe she's left and searches for her - finally finding her in Paris in
the arms of a new lover...
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Carlene: A Love Story
By: Tayo Akiwumi
‘Carlene’ is an easy to read romantic, sensitive and light-hearted story that heavily borrows from the truths and emotions of the author’s real life. Carlene Wong, a Chinese-Malaysian beauty
that Tobi Vaughan met on a normal train journey stole his heart at a speed he could not have prepared for. Then he lost her as she followed a dream to America. The story spans several exotic countries.
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Castles in the Air
By: Baroness Orczy
In presenting this engaging rogue to my readers, I feel that I owe them, if not an apology, at least an explanation for this attempt at enlisting sympathy in favour of a man who has little
to recommend him save his own unconscious humour. In very truth my good friend Ratichon is an unblushing liar, thief, a forger--anything you will; his vanity is past belief, his scruples are
non-existent. How he escaped a convict settlement it is difficult to imagine, and hard to realize that he died--presumably some years after the event recorded in the last chapter of his
autobiography--a respected member of the community, honoured by that same society which should have raised a punitive hand against him. Yet this I believe to be the case. At any rate,
in spite of close research in the police records of the period, I can find no mention of Hector Ratichon. "Heureux le peuple qui n'a pas d'histoire" applies, therefore, to him, and we
must take it that Fate and his own sorely troubled country dealt lightly with him.
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Daniel Deronda (1876)
By: George Eliot
This was the last novel George Eliot completed and the only one set in the contemporary Victorian society of her day. Its mixture of social satire and moral searching, along with a sympathetic
rendering of Jewish proto-Zionist and Kaballistic ideas has made it a controversial final statement of one of the greatest of Victorian novelists.
Crushed by a loveless marriage to the cruel and arrogant Grandcourt, Gwendolen seeks salvation in the deeply spiritual and altruistic Daniel Deronda. But Deronda, profoundly
affected by the discovery of his Jewish ancestry, is ultimately too committed to his own cultural awakening to save Gwendolen from despair.
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Day Game Dating (The Five Vital Principles)
By Colin
Do you want to learn how to successfully go out and meet women during the day? This is called Day Game. There are five vital principals that you must follow as a path onto success.
They are laid down into this book and you can begin using them right now!
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Drusilla with a Million (1916)
By Elizabeth Cooper
Drusilla Doane, an old lady living in a charitable institution, inherits one million dollars from a distant cousin as well as his mansion where she goes to live.
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El Dorado
By Baroness Orczy
The fourth installment of the Scarlet Pimpernel's adventures by Baroness Orczy rescuing innocent folk from the guillotine in the French First Republic in the waning years of the 18th century.
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Emma
By Jane Austen
Emma Woodhouse, aged 20 at the start of the novel, is a young, beautiful, witty, and privileged woman in Regency England. She lives on the fictional estate of Hartfield in Surrey in the village of
Highbury with her elderly widowed father, a hypochondriac who is excessively concerned for the health and safety of his loved ones. Emma's friend and only critic is the gentlemanly George Knightley,
her neighbour from the adjacent estate of Donwell, and the brother of her elder sister Isabella's husband. As the novel opens, Emma has just attended the wedding of Miss Taylor, her best friend and
former governess. Having introduced Miss Taylor to her future husband, Mr Weston, Emma takes credit for their marriage, and decides that she rather likes matchmaking.
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Ethan Frome (1911)
By Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome is described as "the most striking figure in Starkfield" - "the ruin of a man," with a “careless powerful look…in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk of a chain".
Frome's wife is the "sickly, cantankerous" Zenobia ("Zeena"). He is her sole caregiver until her young and beautiful cousin, Mattie Silver, arrives to help with housekeeping. Ethan is taken
in by Mattie’s youthful beauty and good humor, but his interest in Mattie does not go unnoticed by Zeena. In fact, when she realizes Ethan and Mattie’s mutual attraction, she plans to hire
someone less attractive and to have Mattie sent away.
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Evelina (1778)
By Frances Burney
Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World is a novel written by English author Frances Burney.
In this epistolary novel in three volumes, Evelina, the title character, is the unacknowledged daughter of a dissipated English aristocrat. Her dubious birth has seen her raised in rural seclusion
until her seventeenth year. Through a series of humorous events that take place in London and the resort town of Bristol-Hotwells, Evelina learns how to navigate the complex layers of 18th century
society and earn the love of a distinguished nobleman. This sentimental novel has notions of sensibility and early romanticism satirizes the society in which it is set and is a significant precursor
to later works by Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth, whose novels explore many of the same issues.
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