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27 Free Forbidden Love Books [PDF]

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Looking for forbidden love books? We've gathered free forbidden love books in PDF, from star-crossed lovers and secret affairs to banned romances and short stories.

These are classics where two people fall in love and everyone else says no. Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights are all here.

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Forbidden Love Novels

A wedding ring, a promise, a reputation at stake. In these forbidden love novels, someone is already taken and falls in love anyway.

  • Anna Karenina

    Anna is married to a powerful official when she falls for Count Vronsky. Russian high society forgives the affair in a man and destroys her for it.

    Leo Tolstoy

    Format: PDF 717 pages 4.54 MB
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  • The Scarlet Letter

    Hester Prynne refuses to name the father of her child, and a Puritan town makes her wear her sin on her chest.

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Format: PDF 137 pages 1.6 MB
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  • Jane Eyre

    Jane, a governess, is about to marry Mr. Rochester when she learns he already has a wife locked away in the attic.

    Charlotte Brontë

    Format: PDF 944 pages 4.55 MB
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  • The Age of Innocence

    Newland Archer is engaged to the perfect bride when her cousin Ellen, a countess fleeing her marriage, arrives in New York. Old society closes ranks to keep them apart.

    Edith Wharton

    Format: PDF 231 pages 1.01 MB
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  • The Sorrows of Young Werther

    Werther falls for Lotte knowing she is promised to another man. His letters follow a love he has no right to and cannot give up.

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Format: PDF 66 pages 1.39 MB
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  • Ethan Frome

    Ethan is tied to a sickly, bitter wife on a frozen farm when her young cousin Mattie comes to live with them. A short novel about a love with nowhere to go.

    Edith Wharton

    Format: PDF 103 pages 0.59 MB
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  • The Princess of Cleves

    A young wife at the French court falls in love with the Duke of Nemours and does the unthinkable: she tells her husband. One of the first great novels about a love that duty forbids.

    Madame de Lafayette

    Format: PDF 146 pages 0.52 MB
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Star-Crossed Lovers Books

In these forbidden love stories the lovers are free, but family, rank or an old feud stands in the way. If you liked Romeo and Juliet, start with Wuthering Heights.

  • Romeo and Juliet

    Two teenagers from feuding families in Verona marry in secret. Their parents' hatred does the rest.

    William Shakespeare

    Format: PDF 175 pages 1.82 MB
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  • Wuthering Heights

    Catherine loves Heathcliff, the orphan raised beside her, but marrying him would degrade her. Her choice haunts two families on the Yorkshire moors.

    Emily Brontë

    Format: PDF 200 pages 1.94 MB
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  • Persuasion

    Anne Elliot gave up Captain Wentworth because her family thought a penniless sailor beneath her. Eight years later he comes back rich, and still hurt.

    Jane Austen

    Format: PDF 137 pages 1.69 MB
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  • The Romance of Tristan and Iseult

    Tristan is sent to bring Iseult home as his uncle's bride, and a love potion binds them on the voyage. The medieval legend behind every tale of doomed lovers.

    Joseph Bédier

    Format: PDF 55 pages 1.33 MB
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  • The Bride of Lammermoor

    Edgar Ravenswood falls in love with Lucy Ashton, daughter of the man who ruined his family. Her mother will do anything to break the engagement.

    Walter Scott

    Format: PDF 342 pages 1.22 MB
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  • Lorna Doone

    John Ridd, a farmer, loves Lorna, raised by the outlaw clan that murdered his father. A sweeping romance set on wild Exmoor.

    R. D. Blackmore

    Format: PDF 947 pages 12.7 MB
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  • The Mill on the Floss

    Maggie Tulliver meets in secret with Philip Wakem, the son of her father's sworn enemy. Her brother forces her to choose between love and family.

    George Eliot

    Format: PDF 366 pages 3.32 MB
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  • The Lady of the Camellias

    Armand loves Marguerite, the most famous courtesan in Paris. His father asks her to give him up to save the family's name.

    Alexandre Dumas fils

    Format: PDF 153 pages 0.64 MB
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  • Manon Lescaut

    The young nobleman Des Grieux throws away his rank and his future for Manon. His father and the law keep tearing them apart.

    Abbé Prévost

    Format: PDF 103 pages 1.59 MB
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Banned Romance Books

These forbidden romances shocked their first readers so much that censors pulled them from the shelves. Today you can read every page.

  • Lady Chatterley's Lover

    Constance Chatterley, wife of a paralyzed baronet, starts an affair with the estate's gamekeeper. Banned for over thirty years, this is the full unexpurgated text.

    D. H. Lawrence

    Format: PDF 219 pages 2.41 MB
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  • Madame Bovary

    Emma Bovary, bored with her country doctor husband, looks for passion in two lovers and in debt. The novel put Flaubert on trial for obscenity in 1857.

    Gustave Flaubert

    Format: PDF 219 pages 2.08 MB
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  • The Awakening

    Edna Pontellier, a wife and mother in New Orleans, falls in love with a younger man and stops playing her part. Critics of 1899 called it morbid and immoral.

    Kate Chopin

    Format: PDF 128 pages 0.22 MB
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  • Jude the Obscure

    Jude and his cousin Sue love each other, live together unmarried and pay for it. A bishop burned the book and Hardy never wrote another novel.

    Thomas Hardy

    Format: PDF 407 pages 1.25 MB
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  • The Well of Loneliness

    Stephen Gordon, an upper-class Englishwoman, falls in love with Mary while driving ambulances in the Great War. A British court ordered every copy destroyed in 1928.

    Radclyffe Hall

    Format: PDF 496 pages 1.35 MB
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  • Sister Carrie

    Carrie moves to Chicago and lives with one man, then runs off with a married one, and the novel never punishes her. Its own publisher tried to bury it in 1900.

    Theodore Dreiser

    Format: PDF 468 pages 1.66 MB
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  • Dangerous Liaisons

    Two aristocrats seduce and ruin others for sport, until one of them falls for the married woman he set out to destroy. Banned in France decades after it appeared.

    Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

    Format: PDF 314 pages 2.54 MB
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Forbidden Love Short Stories

Short on time? These stories pack a whole secret affair into a single sitting.

  • The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories

    In the title story, a married man and a married woman meet on holiday in Yalta and find they cannot go back to their old lives. Includes more Chekhov stories in the same volume.

    Anton Chekhov

    Format: PDF 123 pages 1.68 MB
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  • Carmen

    Don José, a soldier, deserts the army and turns outlaw for Carmen, a gypsy who belongs to no one. The short novel behind the opera.

    Prosper Mérimée

    Format: PDF 43 pages 1.16 MB
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  • The Kreutzer Sonata

    On a night train, a man confesses how jealousy over his wife and a violinist drove him to murder. Russian censors banned it on publication.

    Leo Tolstoy

    Format: PDF 110 pages 0.8 MB
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  • First Love

    Sixteen-year-old Vladimir falls for the princess next door, then discovers who her secret lover is. A short novel about a love nobody is allowed to name.

    Ivan Turgenev

    Format: PDF 78 pages 0.35 MB
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Every one of these forbidden love books asks the same question: what would you risk for love?

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