So, I finally got around to organizing the "Barbara Cartland's Library of Love" books that I bought last month. This was a series of paperback books published in the late 1970s by Bantam where Barbara Cartland edited and condensed old romantic novels of previous decades, making the text more palatable to modern readers. In the past, I wasn't able to find a complete index of all titles in this series, since some of the later books did not have numbers on them.
FictionDB apparently doesn't have a list of them. The index on Goodreads is incomplete and out of numerical order. The most complete list I had found online was a comment made by Virginia DeMarce to a blog post, where she listed 26 books plus 3 unnumbered books.
However, I now know that there were at least 35 books in the series. It's possible that there were more, though. Below is my own attempt at an index.
When it gives a copyright year below, that is the first year of copyright as listed inside the book. When it says "originally published in" below, that means the first copyright year was not listed inside the book, and so I had to look up online to find out when the novel was originally published.
#1: "The Sheik" by E. M. Hull (March 1977) [originally published in 1919]
#2: "His Hour" by Elinor Glyn (March 1977) [originally published in 1910]
#3: "The Knave of Diamonds" by Ethel M. Dell (April 1977) (copyright 1913)
#4: "A Safety Match" by Ian Hay (May 1977) (copyright 1911)
#5: "The Hundredth Chance" by Ethel M. Dell (June 1977) (copyright 1917)
#6: "The Reason Why" by Elinor Glyn (July 1977) [originally published in 1911]
#7: "The Way of an Eagle" by Ethel M. Dell (August 1977) (copyright 1912 inside the book; Wikipedia says it was published in 1911)
#8: "The Vicissitudes of Evangeline" by Elinor Glyn (Sept. 1977) [originally published in 1905]
#9: "The Bars of Iron" by Ethel M. Dell (Oct. 1977) (copyright 1916)
#10: "Man and Maid" by Elinor Glyn (Nov. 1977) (copyright 1922)
#11: "The Sons of the Sheik" by E. M. Hull (Dec. 1977) (copyright 1925)
#12: "Six Days" by Elinor Glyn (Jan. 1978) (copyright 1924)
#13: "Rainbow in the Spray" by Pamela Wynne (Feb. 1978) [originally published in 1929]
#14: "The Great Moment" by Elinor Glyn (Feb. 1978) (copyright 1923)
#15: "Greatheart" by Ethel M. Dell (March 1978) [originally published in 1918]
#16: "The Broad Highway" by Jeffrey Farnol (April 1978) [originally published in 1910]
#17: "The Sequence" by Elinor Glyn (April 1978) [originally published in 1913]
#18: "Charles Rex" by Ethel M. Dell (May 1978) [originally published in 1922]
#19: "Ashes of Desire" by Pamela Wynne (June 1978) [originally published in 1925]
#20: "The Price of Things" by Elinor Glyn (June 1978) [originally published in 1919]
#21: "Tetherstones" by Ethel M. Dell (July 1978) [originally published in 1923]
#22: "The Amateur Gentleman" by Jeffrey Farnol (Aug. 1978) (copyright 1913)
#23: "His Official Fiancee" by Berta Ruck (Sept. 1978) [originally published in 1914]
#24: "The Lion Tamer" by E. M. Hull (Oct. 1978) (copyright 1928)
#25: "It" by Elinor Glyn (Oct. 1978) [originally published in 1927]
#26: "Freckles" by Gene Stratton Porter (Dec. 1978) [originally published in 1904]
#27: "Leave It to Love" by Pamela Wynne (Jan. 1979?)
(Note: I don't have this book. Originally published in 1936, according to the author's Wikipedia entry.)
#28: "Ramazan the Rajah" by Vere Lockwood (June 1979) [originally published in 1929] (Note: No number on the book's cover, but inside it lists this book as #28 in the series, and "Leave It to Love" as book #27.)
#29: "The Money Moon" by Jeffrey Farnol (July 1979?)
(Note: I don't have this book. Originally published in 1911.)
#30 [?]: The Rocks of Valpré" by Ethel M. Dell (Oct. 1979) (copyright 1913 inside the book; Wikipedia says it was published in 1914)
#31 [?]: "Only a Girl's Love" by Charles Garvice (Feb. 1980) [originally published in 1901]
#32 [?] "The Bridge of Kisses" by Berta Ruck (1980) [originally published in 1917] (Note: I don't have this book.)
#33 [?]: "Son of the Turk" by Vere Lockwood (June 1980) [originally published in 1930]
#34 [?]: "The Obstacle Race" by Ethel M. Dell (Aug. 1980) (copyright 1921)
#35 [?]: "Love in a Mist" by Pamela Wynne (Oct. 1982?)
(Note: I don't have this book. Originally published in 1932, according to the author's Wikipedia entry.)
In 1978-1979, Barbara Cartland also had two other series reprinting old novels, condensed & edited by her. These were:
A NOVEL OF ANCIENT WISDOM
At least four books in this line, which were:
#1: "The Forgotten City" by Barbara Cartland [originally published in 1936]
#2: "The House of Fulfillment" by L. Adams Beck (Aug. 1978) (copyright 1927)
#3: "The Romance of Two Worlds" by Marie Corelli [originally published in 1886]
#4: "Black Light" by Talbot Mundy [originally published in 1930]
(Note: I don't have any of these four books.)
A NOVEL OF LOVE AND REVELATION
(Only one book in this series?)
#1 [?]: "The Treasure of Ho" by L. Adams Beck (Dec. 1979) (copyright 1924)
This post will be updated whenever I have more information to add to it. Feel free to let me know here in the comments if you have any additional info. Thanks!
