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Regency Buck

Georgette Heyer, Regency Buck

(England, 1810s: dislike turns to love in Regency high society; will he tame her or will she tame him?)

20th-Century Romance

Caroline Fireside, Goodbye Again  (will heroine sacrifice glamorous film career for love?)

M.M. Kaye, The Far Pavilions  (love across the races in dying days of British Raj in India)

Margaret Pemberton, Never Leave Me  (successful Californian looks back on doomed wartime love-affair with German officer, when she works for France Resistance)

Erich Segal, Love Story  (two college students fall idyllically, tragically, in love)

Comedy of Manners

Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head  (sexual merry-go-round in "swinging" 1960s London)

P.G. Wodehouse, Bill the Conqueror  (Percy Pilbeam"s havoc-strewn career as editor of "Society Spice")

Henry Fielding, Tom Jones  (escapades of foundling wandering 18th-century England to find truth about himself)

Mary Wesley, The Vacillations of Poppy Carewe  (rich heiress reviews young men in her life to find the "best" - i.e. the least obviously eligible - husband. Love intervenes)

Period Romance

Kathleen Winsor, Forever Amber  (love and adventure in 17th-century, Restoration England)

Rosalind Laker, What the Heart Keeps  (two immigrants in 1900s USA fall in love, make life together in Wild West and early Hollywood)

Norah Lofts, The Brittle Glass  (independent girl grows up in 18th-century Fens, a place of smugglers, gipsies and highwaymen)

T.N. Murari, Taj  (love of Indian Shah Jahan and his wife, for whom he built the Taj Mahal)

Regency England

Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility  (love-affairs of two sisters: sensible Elinor and impulsive, romantic Marianne)

Joan Aiken, Mansfield Revisited  (spirited girl "tames" brother-in-law"s snobbish family)

Clare Darcy, Elyza  (plain girl disguises herself as boy to find romance)

Caroline Courtney, Duchess in Disguise  (spurned wife disguises herself to win husband"s love)

Romantic Mystery

Helen MacInnes, Ride a Pale Horse  (US journalist at Prague conference approached by would-be defector)

Anne Bridge, The Ginger Griffin  (intrigue and unhappiness in pre-Revolutionary China)

Mary Stewart, Nine Coaches Waiting  (English governess in France, caught in family feud, saves charges from death, finds love)

Jane Aiken Hodge, Polonaise  (love and politics in 1810s Poland, caught between Russia and Napoleon)