Romantic novels

1862 novel by Victor Hugo

1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature from different body parts in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18 and staying in Bath, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821.

The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel by the French writer Alexandre Dumas. It was serialised from 1844 to 1846, then published in book form in 1846. It is one of his most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers (1844) and Man in the Iron Mask (1850). Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter, Auguste Maquet. It is regarded as a classic of French and world literature.

novel by Victor Hugo

Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "Ellis Bell". It concerns two extensive upland estates and their landowning families on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons; and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' foster son, Heathcliff. Driven by themes of love, possession, revenge, and reconciliation, the novel is influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction. It is considered a classic of English literature.

novel by Alexandre Dumas; sequel to The Three Musketeers

book by Alexandre Dumas, second sequel to The Three Musketeers

novel by Ethel Lilian Voynich

short story by John William Polidori

1794 novel by Ann Radcliffe

novel by Alexander Grin

set of three novels by 19th century writer Alexandre Dumas

1807 novel by Germaine de Staël

1791 novel by Ann Radcliffe

1797 novel by Ann Radcliffe

novel by Ann Radcliffe

prose work by Mihai Eminescu