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Agnes Grey
Love, pride, secrets, and second chances collide in a timeless emotional drama. A classic public-domain story presented for modern NovelLuma readers who love emotional tension, secrets, society drama, mystery, and unforgettable heroines.
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The Custom of the Country
She married up, then wanted more. A classic public-domain story presented for modern NovelLuma readers who love emotional tension, secrets, society drama, mystery, and unforgettable heroines.
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Middlemarch
In a glittering society built on status, one woman risks everything for a different life. A classic public-domain story presented for modern NovelLuma readers who love emotional tension, secrets, society drama, mystery, and unforgettable heroines.
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
She was underestimated by everyone, until she found the courage to choose herself. A classic public-domain story presented for modern NovelLuma readers who love emotional tension, secrets, society drama, mystery, and unforgettable heroines.
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Verner's Pride
I. RACHEL FROST 7 II. THE WILLOW POND 19 III. THE NEWS BROUGHT HOME 26 IV. THE CROWD IN THE MOONLIGHT 32 V. THE TALL GENTLEMAN IN THE LANE 36 VI. DINAH ROY'S "GHOST" 47 VII. THE REVELATION AT THE INQUEST 55 VIII. ROBIN'S VOW 60 IX. MR. VERNER'S ESTRANGEMENT 67 X. LADY VERNER 72 XI. LUCY TEMPEST 77 XII. DR. WEST'S HOME 86 XIII. A CONTEMPLATED VOYAGE 96 XIV. THE NIGHT BEFORE THE WEDDING 104 XV. A TROUBLED MIND 106 XVI.
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The Master-Christian
In the ancient city of Rouen, church bells, public devotion, and private doubt surround a world where faith has become entangled with power, pride, and human weakness. The Master-Christian follows spiritual conflict through a dramatic, atmospheric story of belief, hypocrisy, temptation, and moral reckoning. With its cathedral shadows and charged religious tension, the novel explores what remains of conscience when institutions and desire pull the soul in different directions. Its drama moves between public ceremony and private crisis, giving the story a solemn, mysterious force.
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A Romance of Two Worlds
AN ARTIST'S STUDIO. In the winter of 188-, I was afflicted by a series of nervous ailments, brought on by overwork and overworry. Chief among these was a protracted and terrible insomnia, accompanied by the utmost depression of spirits and anxiety of mind. I became filled with the gloomiest anticipations of evil; and my system was strung up by slow degrees to such a high tension of physical and mental excitement, tha
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A Spinner in the Sun
I "The Fire was Kind" The little house was waiting, as it had waited for many years. Grey and weather-worn, it leaned toward the sheltering hillside as though to gather from the kindly earth some support and comfort for old age. Five-and-twenty Winters had broken its spirit, five-and-twenty Springs had not brought back the heart of it, that had once gone out, with dancing feet and singing, and had returned no more. F
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Ardath
THE MONASTERY. Deep in the heart of the Caucasus mountains a wild storm was gathering. Drear shadows drooped and thickened above the Pass of Dariel,--that terrific gorge which like a mere thread seems to hang between the toppling frost-bound heights above and the black abysmal depths below,--clouds, fringed ominously with lurid green and white, drifted heavily yet swiftly across the jagged peaks where, looming largel
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His Hour
The Sphinx was smiling its eternal smile. It was two o'clock in the morning. The tourists had returned to Cairo, and only an Arab or two lingered near the boy who held Tamara's camel, and then gradually slunk away; thus, but for Hafis, she was alone--alone with her thoughts and the Sphinx. The strange, mystical face looked straight at her from the elevation where she sat. Its sensual mocking calm penetrated her brain
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The Secret Power
A cloud floated slowly above the mountain peak. Vast, fleecy and white as the crested foam of a sea-wave, it sailed through the sky with a divine air of majesty, seeming almost to express a consciousness of its own grandeur. Over a spacious tract of Southern California it extended its snowy canopy, moving from the distant Pacific Ocean across the heights of the Sierra Madre, now and then catching fire at its extreme
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The Sorrows of Satan
I Do you know what it is to be poor? Not poor with the arrogant poverty complained of by certain people who have five or six thousand a year to live upon, and who yet swear they can hardly manage to make both ends meet, but really poor,--downright, cruelly, hideously poor, with a poverty that is graceless, sordid and miserable? Poverty that compels you to dress in your one suit of clothes till it is worn threadbare,-
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The Soul of Lilith
Footnotes INTRODUCTORY NOTE. The following story does not assume to be what is generally understood by a “novel.” It is simply the account of a strange and daring experiment once actually attempted, and is offered to those who are interested in the unseen “possibilities” of the Hereafter, merely for what it is,--a single episode in the life of a man who voluntarily sacrificed his whole worldly career in a supreme eff
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Frankenstein
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley draws readers into a shadowed world of secrets, forbidden rooms, dangerous loyalties, and emotions that refuse to stay buried. Its atmosphere is tense and romantic, with mystery pressing against every private choice. Readers who enjoy old houses, moral danger, hidden identities, and love tested by fear will find a richly dramatic story shaped by suspense and longing.