Achilles Tatius's "Leucippe and Clitophon" is an ancient Greek novel recounting the adventurous love story of its two protagonists. It is notable for its intricate plot, rhetorical flourishes, and significant influence on the development of the novelistic genre.
Sources for Achilles Tatius — Leucippe and Clitophon (Loeb / Smith trans.)
Achilles Tatius — Leucippe and Clitophon (Loeb / Smith trans.) in First Romance Novels
Held in the First Romance Novels chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Heliodorus — The Aethiopica (Underdowne / Wright trans.) (250)
- Longus — Daphnis and Chloe: A Pastoral Romance (200)
- Xenophon of Ephesus — Ephesian History: The Love-Adventures of Abrocomas and Anthia (Rooke trans., 1727) (150)
- Samuel Richardson — Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740)
- Cao Xueqin — Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. I (Joly trans.) (1791)
- Jane Austen — Sense and Sensibility (1811)
- Jane Austen — Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Maria Edgeworth — Tales and Novels (collected) (1832)
- Charlotte Brontë — Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (1847)
- Georgette Heyer — The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIIIth Century (1921)
- Abbé Prévost — Manon Lescaut (1731)
- Benjamin Disraeli — Henrietta Temple: A Love Story (1837)
- Prosper Mérimée — Carmen (1845)