Romance
Read Romance Classics in English
53 romance books at CEFR A2 to C2 — learn English by reading the stories worth reading. Select any word for an instant translation, listen to the narration read the page aloud, and save the vocabulary you meet. Pick your level and start with a free sample.
What are the best romance classics to read in English as a learner?
The best romance classics for English learners are the well-known titles you can read in the original — start with Orpheus and Eurydice, Sonnets from the Portuguese and King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Each one is labelled with a CEFR level, any word you do not know is one selection away from a translation, and the narration reads the page aloud while it highlights the words.
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Level A2RomanceOrpheus and EurydiceThe Greek myth of Orpheus, the singer who went down to the land of the dead to bring back his wife Eurydice, retold in short, simple sentences for A1–A2 learners.
Level C2RomanceSonnets from the PortugueseA weary singer finds her solitary world transformed by a princely heart whose music and presence awaken deep love and longing, defying distance, fate, and even death itself.
Level B2–C1RomanceKing Arthur and the Knights of the Round TableStep into a world of chivalry, magic, and noble quests with King Arthur and his legendary knights as they face battles, enchantments, and the search for the Holy Grail in a realm w…![Cover of Love and Freindship [sic] by Jane Austen](https://dsx1pat3ljtul.cloudfront.net/books/da4g61ae2hvc73bmvsu0.webp)
Level C2RomanceLove and Freindship [sic]A young woman recounts her tumultuous life through letters, revealing beauty, talent, and misfortune in a quiet Welsh valley.
Level B2–C1RomanceBlow The Man Down: A Romance Of The CoastA captain aboard a luxurious yacht wrestles with an overwhelming, forbidden passion that breaks through his disciplined reserve, risking honor and sanity in a sudden, reckless embr…
Level B2–C2Science FictionA Honeymoon in SpaceThe classic science-fiction novel by George Chetwynd Griffith.
Level B2–C2RomanceA Romance of Billy-Goat HillThe classic romance novel by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice.
Level C1–C2ClassicsA Tale of Two CitiesThe classic historical novel by Charles Dickens.
Level C1–C2RomanceA pair of blue eyesThe classic romance novel by Thomas Hardy.
Level C2RomanceAnna KareninaThe classic romance novel by Leo, graf Tolstoy.
Level C1–C2RomanceCamille (La Dame aux Camilias)The classic romance novel by Alexandre Dumas.
Level C1–C2RomanceCarmenThe classic mystery novel by Prosper Mérimée.
Level B2–C2AdventureCatrionaThe classic romance novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Level C2RomanceEloisa : $b or, A series of original lettersThe classic romance novel by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Level C2PoetryErotica RomanaThe classic romance novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Level C2ClassicsHistory of Tom Jones, a FoundlingThe classic classics novel by Henry Fielding.
Level C1–C2RomanceJane Eyre: An AutobiographyThe classic romance novel by Charlotte Brontë.
Level C1–C2MysteryLady Audley's SecretThe classic mystery novel by M.
Level C2ClassicsLes MisérablesThe classic historical novel by Victor Hugo.
Level B1–C1Children'sLittle Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and AmyThe classic childrens novel by Louisa May Alcott.
Level C1–C2RomanceLorna Doone: A Romance of ExmoorThe classic romance novel by R.
Level C1–C2RomanceManon LescautThe classic romance novel by abbé Prévost.
Level C2ClassicsMiddlemarchThe classic romance novel by George Eliot.
Level C1–C2RomancePride and PrejudiceWit, pride and slow-burning love in the drawing rooms of Regency England.
Level C2RomanceRomeo and JulietThe classic romance novel by William Shakespeare.
Level C1–C2RomanceSense and SensibilityThe classic romance novel by Jane Austen.
Level B1–C1RomanceThe Blue Castle: a novelThe classic romance novel by L.
Level B2–C2RomanceThe Blue Lagoon: A RomanceThe classic romance novel by H.
Level B2–C2AdventureThe Count of Monte CristoBetrayed and imprisoned, Edmond Dantès escapes to engineer a decade-spanning revenge.
Level B2–C1MysteryThe Daughter of Anderson CrowThe classic mystery novel by George Barr McCutcheon.
Level B2–C2RomanceThe Enchanted AprilThe classic romance novel by Elizabeth Von Arnim.
Level C2ClassicsThe History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, CompleteThe classic romance novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
Level C1–C2RomanceThe History of Sir Richard Calmady: A RomanceThe classic romance novel by Lucas Malet.
Level C2PoetryThe Lady of the LakeThe classic romance novel by Walter Scott.
Level B2–C1RomanceThe Landloper: The Romance of a Man on FootThe classic romance novel by Holman Day.
Level C1–C2RomanceThe Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert ImlayThe classic romance novel by Mary Wollstonecraft.
Level C1–C2HorrorThe Monk: A RomanceThe classic horror novel by M.
Level C1–C2GothicThe Mysteries of UdolphoThe classic mystery novel by Ann Ward Radcliffe.
Level B2–C2GothicThe Phantom of the OperaThe classic mystery novel by Gaston Leroux.
Level B2–C1RomanceThe Real AdventureThe classic romance novel by Henry Kitchell Webster.
Level C1–C2RomanceThe Red Lily — CompleteThe classic romance novel by Anatole France.
Level C1–C2ClassicsThe Scarlet LetterThe classic historical novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Level B2–C2AdventureThe Yeoman AdventurerThe classic romance novel by George W.
Level B2–C2RomanceUnder the Red Dragon: A NovelThe classic mystery novel by James Grant.
Level B2–C1FantasyUndineThe classic romance novel by Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué.
Level C2ClassicsWar and PeaceTolstoy's sweeping epic follows five aristocratic families through the Napoleonic Wars, weaving personal drama with grand historical events to create one of literature's greatest p…
Level C1–C2ClassicsWhite nights, and other storiesThe classic classics novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Level C1–C2GothicWuthering HeightsThe classic gothic novel by Emily Brontë.