Romance
Read Romance Classics in English
48 romance books as graded readers — learn English by reading the stories worth reading. Tap any word for an instant translation, hear natural audio narration, and save the vocabulary you meet. Pick your level and start with a free chapter.
What are the best romance classics to read in English as a learner?
The best romance classics for English learners are graded readers of well-known titles — start with War and Peace, Under the Red Dragon: A Novel and Camille (La Dame aux Camilias). Each is rewritten at a clear CEFR level with tap-to-translate, audio narration and saved vocabulary, so you read a real story while building English at your own pace.
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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 B2RomanceUnder the Red Dragon: A NovelThe classic mystery novel by James Grant.
Level C1RomanceCamille (La Dame aux Camilias)The classic romance novel by Alexandre Dumas.
Level B2MysteryThe Daughter of Anderson CrowThe classic mystery novel by George Barr McCutcheon.
Level C1RomanceA pair of blue eyesThe classic romance novel by Thomas Hardy.
Level B2RomanceThe Real AdventureThe classic romance novel by Henry Kitchell Webster.
Level B2FantasyUndineThe classic romance novel by Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué.
Level B2RomanceThe Gay CockadeThe classic romance novel by Temple Bailey.
Level C2ClassicsThe History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, CompleteThe classic romance novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
Level B2Science FictionA Honeymoon in SpaceThe classic science-fiction novel by George Chetwynd Griffith.
Level C1MysteryLady Audley's SecretThe classic mystery novel by M.
Level B2AdventureCatrionaThe classic romance novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Level B2RomanceA Romance of Billy-Goat HillThe classic romance novel by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice.
Level B2RomanceThe Landloper: The Romance of a Man on FootThe classic romance novel by Holman Day.
Level B2RomanceThe Blue Lagoon: A RomanceThe classic romance novel by H.
Level C1RomanceThe Red Lily — CompleteThe classic romance novel by Anatole France.
Level C2RomanceAnna KareninaThe classic romance novel by Leo, graf Tolstoy.
Level B2GothicThe Phantom of the OperaThe classic mystery novel by Gaston Leroux.
Level C1RomanceComplete Short Works of George MeredithThe classic romance novel by George Meredith.
Level C1RomanceLorna Doone: A Romance of ExmoorThe classic romance novel by R.
Level C2PoetryErotica RomanaThe classic romance novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Level C1RomanceThe Romance of Tristan and IseultThe classic romance novel by Joseph Bédier.
Level C1RomanceThe History of Sir Richard Calmady: A RomanceThe classic romance novel by Lucas Malet.
Level C2ClassicsLes MisérablesThe classic historical novel by Victor Hugo.
Level C1RomanceManon LescautThe classic romance novel by abbé Prévost.
Level C2RomanceEloisa : $b or, A series of original lettersThe classic romance novel by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Level C1RomanceThe Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert ImlayThe classic romance novel by Mary Wollstonecraft.
Level C1ClassicsThe Scarlet LetterThe classic historical novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Level C1HorrorThe Monk: A RomanceThe classic horror novel by M.
Level C1ClassicsWhite nights, and other storiesThe classic classics novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Level B2AdventureThe Yeoman AdventurerThe classic romance novel by George W.
Level C2PoetryThe Lady of the LakeThe classic romance novel by Walter Scott.
Level C1RomanceCarmenThe classic mystery novel by Prosper Mérimée.
Level C1RomanceSense and SensibilityThe classic romance novel by Jane Austen.
Level C1ClassicsA Tale of Two CitiesThe classic historical novel by Charles Dickens.
Level C1GothicWuthering HeightsThe classic gothic novel by Emily Brontë.
Level C1GothicThe Mysteries of UdolphoThe classic mystery novel by Ann Ward Radcliffe.
Level C2ClassicsHistory of Tom Jones, a FoundlingThe classic classics novel by Henry Fielding.
Level B2RomanceThe Enchanted AprilThe classic romance novel by Elizabeth Von Arnim.
Level B1Children'sLittle Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and AmyThe classic childrens novel by Louisa May Alcott.
Level C1RomanceJane Eyre: An AutobiographyThe classic romance novel by Charlotte Brontë.
Level B1RomanceThe Blue Castle: a novelThe classic romance novel by L.
Level C2ClassicsMiddlemarchThe classic romance novel by George Eliot.
Level C2RomanceRomeo and JulietThe classic romance novel by William Shakespeare.
Level B2AdventureThe Count of Monte CristoBetrayed and imprisoned, Edmond Dantès escapes to engineer a decade-spanning revenge.
Level C1RomancePride and PrejudiceWit, pride and slow-burning love in the drawing rooms of Regency England.
Level B2RomanceThe Green MouseThe classic romance novel by Robert W.
Level C1RomanceThat Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the DayThe classic romance novel by Richard Dehan.