Family Life - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 2
Almond-Blossom - Olive Wadsley


Almond-Blossom - Olive Wadsley
- Author: Olive Wadsley
- Genre: Family Life
At the beginning of the story, Tony and Fay had lost a child. One day, Tony saves a little girl, Doro, from drowning. He and Fay end up adopting Doro. Soon after this, Fay discovers that she is with-child. She gives birth to a son, Rex, but tragedy...
Eleanor's Victory - Mary Elizabeth Braddon


Eleanor's Victory - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Family Life
Only 15-years-old, Eleanor Vane is very happy with her lot: educated in an expensive finishing school in Paris, the apple of her father's eye, and disposed to be kind. Of course there are things missing: she does not remember her mother who died...
What Maisie Knew - Henry James


What Maisie Knew - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction
When Beale and Ida Farange are divorced, the court decrees that their only child, the very young Maisie, will shuttle back and forth between them, spending six months of the year with each. The parents are immoral and frivolous, and they use Maisie...
Tommy and Grizel - J. M. Barrie


Tommy and Grizel - J. M. Barrie
- Author: J. M. Barrie
- Genre: Family Life / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / General Fiction
This book continues Sentimental Tommy, also in the Librivox catalogue. Tommy grows up and marries Grizel. But life is not only roses and rainbows. This book has all the elements of a good love story, but it is also a book about growing up and...
What Katy Did (Dramatic Reading) - Susan Coolidge


What Katy Did (Dramatic Reading) - Susan Coolidge
- Author: Susan Coolidge
- Genre: Family Life / Family
Katy Carr always gets in trouble for everything. When her mother died, she told Katy to be a mother to the little ones. But it seems like Katy can't do anything right. Her Aunt Izzie always scolds her, so one day Katy decides to ignore her aunt's...
Pierrot, Dog Of Belgium - Walter Alden Dyer


Pierrot, Dog Of Belgium - Walter Alden Dyer
- Author: Walter Alden Dyer
- Genre: Family Life / Nature & Animal Fiction / War & Military Fiction
This 1915 novella was published as the First World War raged. "Belgium lies bleeding. Across her level, lush meadows the harsh-shod hosts of war have marched. Beside her peaceful waters the sons of God have spilled each other’s blood. Beneath her...
Marcia Schuyler - Grace Livingston Hill


Marcia Schuyler - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Romance
A compelling love triangle. Marcia is young & sweet. Her older sister Kate is vain & selfish. Marcia deeply admires the man that Kate is to marry: handsome & respected David Spafford. But on the eve of the wedding, Kate elopes with...
Magic Words: A Tale for Christmas Time - Emilie Maceroni


Magic Words: A Tale for Christmas Time - Emilie Maceroni
- Author: Emilie Maceroni
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction
Magic Words is a Victorian tale of a community and how a few women bring a special kind of Christmas magic to the community-- Magic that can heal wounded hearts. (Introduction by Sean McGaughey)...
An Unwilling Guest - Grace Livingston Hill


An Unwilling Guest - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Family Life / Romance / Published 1900 onward
A young society woman travels to the country to visit her aunt, only to end up as the unwilling guest of a neighboring family. The daughter is not so sure how to deal with this unpleasant circumstance. The young man of the household has met her...
The Chimes - Charles Dickens


The Chimes - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1800 -1900
The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In is the second of Charles Dickens' Christmas books, published in 1844. Its contemporary setting is the "Hungry Forties", a time of social and political unrest, and...
Aunt Crete's Emancipation - Grace Livingston Hill


Aunt Crete's Emancipation - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Family Life
Aunt Lucretia — 'Crete' to her family — is a sweet, patient older woman, who lives with her narrow-minded sister and spoilt niece, acting as their unpaid and unappreciated domestic servant. When they leave town in order to avoid the unexpected visit...
Plain Living - Rolf BOLDREWOOD


Plain Living - Rolf BOLDREWOOD
- Author: Rolf BOLDREWOOD
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Family Life
Seemingly down-on-his-luck Australian sheep rancher and orchard grower kindly teaches his loving family the value of money through 'plain living'. Fellow fans of Jon Cleary's "The Sundowners", set a generation later, may enjoy this. - Summary by...
The Chronicles of America Volume 09 - Colonial Folkways - Charles McLean Andrews


The Chronicles of America Volume 09 - Colonial Folkways - Charles McLean Andrews
- Author: Charles McLean Andrews
- Genre: Family Life / Business & Economics / Education
This work according to the subtitle is "a chronicle of American life in the reign of the Georges." It describes land, locales, houses, habits, diversions, learning, religion, labor, and travel....
Fairy Prince and Other Stories - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott


Fairy Prince and Other Stories - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Family Life
A charming family story told from the viewpoint of a nine-year-old girl. “You don't seem to understand," I whispered. "It's Christmas relationships that are worrying Carol and me so! It worries us dreadfully! Oh, of course we understand all about...
Cradock Nowell Vol. 1 - Richard Doddridge Blackmore


Cradock Nowell Vol. 1 - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Genre: Family Life / Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Cradock Nowell: a Tale of the New Forest is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1866. Set in the New Forest and in London, it follows the fortunes of Cradock Nowell who is thrown out of his family home by his father following the...
Domestic Bliss - Ella Wheeler Wilcox


Domestic Bliss - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Family Life / Romance / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
This scene of 'Domestic Bliss' is from Poems of Cheer by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. (Pub 1914) - Summary by David Lawrence...
The Road to Understanding - Eleanor H. Porter


The Road to Understanding - Eleanor H. Porter
- Author: Eleanor H. Porter
- Genre: Family Life / Romance
"If Burke Denby had not been given all the frosted cakes and toy shotguns he wanted at the age of ten, it might not have been so difficult to convince him at the age of twenty that he did not want to marry Helen Barnet." "Of course the inevitable...
Anne of Green Gables (version 7) (dramatic reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery


Anne of Green Gables (version 7) (dramatic reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Family Life
Red-haired Anne Shirley, the orphan girl mistakenly sent to live with Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, has been one of the world's most beloved characters since the publication of Anne of Green Gables in 1908. In this dramatic reading, Librivox readers...
Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages - Various


Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Family Life / Literary Fiction
A delightful collection of short stories by some of the luminary authors of the Victorian era. These stories explore the truth behind the victorian marriage. - Summary by Gina Belmonde...
Driven Back To Eden - Edward P. Roe


Driven Back To Eden - Edward P. Roe
- Author: Edward P. Roe
- Genre: Family Life / Christian Fiction
Frustrated with life in the tenements generally and the negative influences on his children specifically, a father decides to move his family to the country, where they live off the land and breathe fresh air. - Summary by David Gore...