Continuing our “Top Novel Series”, this article focuses on the top 10 romance novels in the public domain. Here we scoured several sources, and we have come up with a list of 10 of the best romance novel that tells love stories, favourite, and timeless, each of which goes beyond basic romance.
Pride and Prejudice
By Jane Austen
This best-loved and most enduring classic romance story in English literature was published in 1813. In this story, Mrs Bennet made an attempt to marry off her lovely five daughters while excitement fizzes through the Bennet household in Hertfordshire when young, eligible Charles Bingley rents the apartment nearby. However, the romantic clash between the opinionated Darcy and Elizabeth is an impressive rendition of civilized sparring.
Emma
by Jane Austen
Emma by Jane Austen is a story that takes place in the fictional village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Randalls, Hartfield, and Donwell Abbey. This captivating and vivid characters of this novel centers on a precocious young woman, Emma Woodhouse whose misplaced confidence in her matchmaking abilities occasions several romantic misadventures.
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
Wuthering Height is one of the most haunting and tormented love stories ever written. Published in 1847, it tells the story of a troubled orphan Heathcliff and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw.
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
The Anonymously published Sense and Sensibility novel in three volumes in 1811 offers a vivid depiction of 19th-century middle-class life as it follows the romantic relationships of Marianne and Elinor.
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
This memorable and enduring classic love story centers on Anna Karenina, trapped in a loveless marriage got carried away by temptation, Anna embarked on a dangerous affair with a bachelor Vronsky. Anna Karenina imbues an interesting tale of a love affair with rich portraits of Russian politics, high society, and religion.
A Room with a View
by E. M. Forster
With a rigid lifestyle already mapped out, Miss Lucy sees an opportunity to visit Florence with her uptight cousin, Charlotte and she throws her neatly ordered lifestyle off balance.
Tess of the d’Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
As Tess Durbeyfield claims kinship with the wealthy D’Urbervilles due to family poverty to seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting Alec ‘her cousin’ proves to be a stumbling block to her goal. Angel Clare a different man offers her the heart of love and salvation, but she’s left with two choices of remaining silent or revealing her past in the hope of a peaceful future.
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White is a must-read epistolary novel by Wilkie Collins, serialized in 1859-1860, first published in 1860. This interesting novel is widely regarded as one of the first in the genre of sensation novel and also considered to be among the first mystery novels.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare is a romantic comedy that draws attention to the strategic fine balance between order and chaos, comedy and tragedy, illusion and reality, tyranny and rebellion, and romance and violence.
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Romeo Montague, a young lovesick falls instantly in love with Juliet Capulet, who is to fulfil his father’s obligation by getting married to his choice, the Country Paris. This story pictures a violent world in which feelings of love arises between two individuals which lead to a movement of love at first sight to the lovers’ final union in death.
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