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The Forbidden Passion - The Greatest Historical Romance Novels Of All Time - cover

The Forbidden Passion - The Greatest Historical Romance Novels Of All Time

Jane Austen, Alexandre Dumas, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Bronte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, William Makepeace Thackeray, Anne Brontë, Maria Edgeworth, Fanny Burney, Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Edith Wharton, Mary Wollstonecraft, Georgette Heyer, Grace Livingston Hill, Thomas Hardy, Eliza Haywood, Leo Tolstoy, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Mrs. Olifant

Publisher: e-artnow

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Summary

In the period when the constraining customs and public scrutiny prevailed, there were still writers who wrote about the true nature of woman's passion. e-artnow presents to you the collection of the greatest tales of love, lust, pleasure and betrayal. 
Content:
Fantomina (Eliza Haywood)
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (Eliza Haywood)
The Fortunate Foundlings (Eliza Haywood)
Powder and Patch (Georgette Heyer)
The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIIIth Century (Georgette Heyer)
Belinda (Maria Edgeworth)
Patronage (Maria Edgeworth)
Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos de Laclos)
Evelina (Fanny Burney)
Cecilia (Fanny Burney)
Camilla (Fanny Burney)
The Wanderer (Fanny Burney)
Mary: A Fiction (Mary Wollstonecraft)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
Mansfield Park (Jane Austen)
Emma (Jane Austen)
Persuasion (Jane Austen)
Miss Marjoribanks (Mrs. Olifant)
Phoebe, Junior (Mrs. Olifant)
Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Pamela (Samuel Richardson)
Anti-Pamela (Eliza Haywood)
Shamela (Henry Fielding)
The Lady of the Camellias (Alexandre Dumas)
The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
The Wings of the Dove (Henry James) 
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë)
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Miranda Trilogy (Grace Livingston Hill)
Available since: 02/16/2021.
Print length: 14407 pages.

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