Short, clean romantic classics

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• short
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The Warden
By Anthony Trollope
F TROLLOPE
John Bold is an attorney trying to make a name for himself by reforming church finances during Victorian England; the only problem is that he is in love with the clergyman’s daughter that his reform will affect.

Anne of Green Gables 
By L. M. Montgomery
YA F MONTGOME
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her. (The romance starts later on the series.) 

Persuasion 
By Jane Austen
F AUSTEN
The romance between Captain Wentworth and Anne, the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, seems doomed because of the young man's family connections and lack of wealth. 

Longer classics that you might also be interested in:

Little Women 
By Louisa May Alcott
YA F ALCOTT
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in nineteenth-century New England. 

Rebecca 
By Daphne Du Maurier
F DUMAURIE
A classic novel of romantic suspense finds the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter entering the home of her mysterious and enigmatic new husband and learning the story of the house's first mistress, to whom the sinister housekeeper is unnaturally devoted.