# The Red Romance Book

Author: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 [Editor]; Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice), 1860-1941 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Romance

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24624

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Red+Romance+Book+Lang&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

I once read a book about a poor little lonely boy in a great house with a large library. This boy was pale, dull, and moping. Nobody knew what was the matter with him. But somebody tracked him into the library and saw him take a huge thick black book, half as tall as himself, out of a bookcase, and sit down and read it. The name of the book was _Polexander_. So he sat and sobbed over _Polexander_, because it was so very dull and so very long. There were 800 pages, and he had only read sixty-seven. But some very stupid grown-up person had told him that he must always begin a book at the beginning, and, if he once began, he must read every word of it, and read nothing else till he had finis...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-romance-book-24624/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-romance-book-24624/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-romance-book-24624/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-romance-book-24624/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-romance-book-24624/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-romance-book-24624/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-romance-book-24624/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-romance-book-24624/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-romance-book-24624/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-romance-book-24624/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-romance-book-24624/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-romance-book-24624/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-romance-book-24624/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-romance-book-24624/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-romance-book-24624/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-romance-book-24624/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-romance-book-24624/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-romance-book-24624/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-romance-book-24624/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-romance-book-24624/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-romance-book-24624/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-romance-book-24624/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-romance-book-24624/chapters/1/index.md)