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[Romance fiction] is a literary genre developed in Western culture, mainly in English-speaking countries. Novels in this genre place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have an emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending."Romance novel," in Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Works
- Daphnis and Chloe, 2nd century by Longus
- Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, 1740 by Samuel Richardson
- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, 1749 by Henry Fielding
- The Fair Magelone, 1797 by Ludwig Tieck
- The Young Man's Love, 1796 by Ludwig Tieck
- Pride and Prejudice, 1813 by Jane Austen
- Jane Eyre, 1847 by Charlotte Brontë
- Jacquetta, 1886 short story by Sabine Baring-Gould
- The Lady with the Dog, 1917 short story by Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett
- The Sheik, 1919 by Edith Maude Hull
- The Black Moth 1921 by Georgette Heyer
- Shadow of the East, 1921 by Edith Maude Hull
- A Proposal to Cicely, 1922 short story by Georgette Heyer
Cross-genre works
Horror
- The Night Land, 1912 novel by William Hope Hodgson
- Clarimonde, 1836 short story by Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier, translated by Lafcadio Hearn
Lyrics
- Greensleeves, traditional English folk song
- Nellie Dean, 1905 by Henry W. Armstrong
Plays
- The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, 1623 by William Shakespeare
- "Romeo and Juliet," in Tales from Shakspeare, 1809 by Charles Lamb
- "Romeo and Juliet," in Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, The Illustrated Shakespeare edition, Vol. III: Tragedies, 1847 edited by Gulian C. Verplanck