Family Life - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 3
Mrs. Armytage, or Female Domination - Catherine Grace Frances GORE
Mrs. Armytage, or Female Domination - Catherine Grace Frances GORE
- Author: Catherine Grace Frances GORE
- Genre: Family Life / Literary Fiction
Mrs Armytage is a widowed landowner, spirited, independent and very much used to having her own way and exercising total dominance over her family. She is acutely aware of social distinctions, proud of her power and prestige, and stands on her...
Mrs. Dymond - Anne Isabella Thackeray RITCHIE
Mrs. Dymond - Anne Isabella Thackeray RITCHIE
- Author: Anne Isabella Thackeray RITCHIE
- Genre: Family Life / Romance
Susanna Holcombe, a very sensitive and free spirited young lady, tries to fit in to society. But it is very hard for a Victorian woman to carve her own path, and she is almost forced to marry colonel Dymond. This book tells about her trials and...
The Pussycat Princess - Edward ANTHONY
The Pussycat Princess - Edward ANTHONY
- Author: Edward ANTHONY
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Family Life
This pussycat is out to have some adventurous fun in this enjoyable fairy tale for boys, girls and parents. Summary by Lynda Marie Neilson...
Mother - Kathleen NORRIS
Mother - Kathleen NORRIS
- Author: Kathleen NORRIS
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction
With seven children and a home to take care of, Margaret wondered how her Mother could be so happy living a life that seemed all drudgery. As Margaret has new experiences, she comes to realize that "her mother was not only the truest, the finest,...
Wives and Daughters (version 2) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Wives and Daughters (version 2) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Family Life
Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel was serialized in Cornhill Magazine from 1864 to 1866, and completed by her editor posthumously. It looks at English life in the 1830s through the experiences of Molly Gibson, the daughter of a widowed doctor growing...
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 4 - Eliza Haywood
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 4 - Eliza Haywood
- Author: Eliza Haywood
- Genre: Family Life / Romance / Sagas
Betsy Thoughtless is about an intelligent and strong-willed woman who marries under pressure from the society in which she lives. Betsy learns that sometimes giving way to the role of women within a marriage can at times be fulfilling. This is the...
An Old-Fashioned Girl (Dramatic Reading) - Louisa May Alcott
An Old-Fashioned Girl (Dramatic Reading) - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Dramatic Readings / Family Life
When country girl Polly Milton comes to visit her friend Fanny Shaw, city life isn’t all she had hoped it would be. Thrown in the middle of a dysfunctional family, Polly remembers the teachings of her wise mother, and does her best to plant seeds of...
Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle - Charlotte Turner Smith
Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle - Charlotte Turner Smith
- Author: Charlotte Turner Smith
- Genre: Family Life
This book was written about 150 years ahead of its time. It tells the story of Emmeline Mobwray who grows up in a dysfunctional family and has to find herself against all odds. Orphaned at a young age, she has to stay alone in a remote castle under...
Neighbors - Florence Morse Kingsley
Neighbors - Florence Morse Kingsley
- Author: Florence Morse Kingsley
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1900 onward
The final story featuring the inhabitants of the growing township of Innisfield: Mrs Philura Pettibone’s story reaches its long-awaited conclusion and Miss Malvina’s life is changed forever by the arrival of various ”fur’ners”. Published in 1917,...
The Love Affairs of Pixie - Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
The Love Affairs of Pixie - Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
- Author: Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1900 onward
This is the third book of the Pixie O’Shaughnessy trilogy. In a story of love lost and found, Pixie matures from an inexperienced young lass into a wise woman. - Summary by Judith Mason...
Policy and Passion - Rosa Campbell Praed
Policy and Passion - Rosa Campbell Praed
- Author: Rosa Campbell Praed
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Sagas
"Policy and Passion, a Novel of Australian Life" tells the story about a father and daughter, torn between the policy of the country in which they live and the passions both have. The father, Thomas, is a rising politician until his love for a...
Links in Rebecca's Life - Pansy
Links in Rebecca's Life - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Family Life / Christian Fiction
Rebecca Harlowe is a young woman who strives to apply Christ's instructions in the Bible to her daily life and relationships. In this book we witness some of her successes and failures and the effect of her example on those around her. (Summary by...
The Heel of Achilles - E. M. Delafield
The Heel of Achilles - E. M. Delafield
- Author: E. M. Delafield
- Genre: Family Life
After a difficult childhood, Lydia Raymond, a lower middle class girl, decides to explore her own individuality and climbs the social ladder. Yet, like everything in life, this has a price. This book tells about her childhood, her quest to find...
What Katy Did at School (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Susan Coolidge
What Katy Did at School (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Susan Coolidge
- Author: Susan Coolidge
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Family Life
Following Katy's recovery in What Katy Did, Katy and Clover go to Hillsover, a boarding school. Together with their new friend Rosamond Redding, or "Rose Red", they form a Society for the Suppression of Unladylike Conduct--but then they are accused...
Fern's Hollow - Hesba Stretton
Fern's Hollow - Hesba Stretton
- Author: Hesba Stretton
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Family Life / Action & Adventure
Ferns Hollow is the sad, but sweet story of a young boy who tragically loses his parents and has to care for his two sisters and crazed grandfather. He finds himself in many difficult situations which test his faith and courage. This book is about...
Dead Men's Shoes - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Dead Men's Shoes - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Family Life / Romance
Sybil, a gentlewoman who has to work for a living, finally finds employment as her rich uncle's house keeper. Nothing could be better: she would finally have an easy job in which she is treated well, and inherit her uncle's money after his death....
Judge Burnham's Daughters - Pansy
Judge Burnham's Daughters - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Family Life / Christian Fiction
Fifth in the Chautauqua Girls series. Ruth Erskine Burnham has helped raise her husband's two daughters, but all have rejected her faith and values. The constant pressure to compromise has weakened her walk and made her life miserable. Her one...
The House by the Medlar Tree - Giovanni VERGA
The House by the Medlar Tree - Giovanni VERGA
- Author: Giovanni VERGA
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Travel Fiction / Family Life
In a nineteenth century Sicilian fishing village, the Malavoglia family gambles everything on being able to profit from a cargo of lupin nuts. The cargo is lost at sea and a succession of misfortunes and tragedies assails the family. A masterpiece...
Java Head - Joseph HERGESHEIMER
Java Head - Joseph HERGESHEIMER
- Author: Joseph HERGESHEIMER
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Family Life
Java Head is a novel of the American merchant marine at the beginning of the great clipper ship era. It is laid in Salem, when that city was still a port rich with the traffic of the East Indies; a story of choleric ship masters, charming girls, and...
Jeremy And Hamlet: A Chronicle Of Certain Incidents In The Lives Of A Boy, A Dog, And A Country Town - Hugh Walpole
Jeremy And Hamlet: A Chronicle Of Certain Incidents In The Lives Of A Boy, A Dog, And A Country Town - Hugh Walpole
- Author: Hugh Walpole
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Family Life / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Hamlet is Jeremy’s dog. This 1923 book is Hugh Walpole’s second volume in his Jeremy semi-autobiographical trilogy (Jeremy (1919 available at librivox.org), Jeremy at Crale (1927, available at fadedpage.org)), about a ten-year-old English boy. One...
The Cricket on the Hearth (Version 2) - Charles Dickens
The Cricket on the Hearth (Version 2) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Family Life / Romance
The tale of John Peerybingle, the good-hearted carrier, and his young wife Mary ('Dot'), interwoven with the story of poor toymaker Caleb Plummer, his beloved blind daughter Bertha, and the harsh old toy merchant Tackleton, who is due to marry May...
Sons of Fire - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Sons of Fire - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Family Life / Historical Fiction
"He was a stranger in Matcham, a 'foreigner' as the villagers called such alien visitors. He had never been in the village before, knew nothing of its inhabitants or its surroundings, its customs, ways, local prejudices, produce, trade, scandals,...
Liliecrona's Home - Selma Lagerlöf
Liliecrona's Home - Selma Lagerlöf
- Author: Selma Lagerlöf
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1900 onward
Liliecrona's Home was published in Sweden 1911, translated into English by Anna Harwell and published in London in 1913. The story is set in the same surroundings in the district of Värmland which Lagerlöf knew so well and used in many of her books....
A Dog's Tale - Mark Twain
A Dog's Tale - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Family Life / Humorous Fiction
This short novel of Twain’s, from 1903, is told from the point of view of a loyal and beloved family pet. Themes of heroics, valor and heart-wrenching tenderness fill this work. The story is also filled with happy events as well as sad ones and is...
Dave Brings Home A Wife (dramatic reading) - Steele RUDD
Dave Brings Home A Wife (dramatic reading) - Steele RUDD
- Author: Steele RUDD
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Family Life / Humorous Fiction
This is a self-contained story-arc over eight chapters from the pages of Steele Rudd's book "Back At Our Selection". The Synopsis: After being a shy bachelor for a number of years, Dave (Dad Rudd's second eldest son) has finally got married. To a...
The Vicar of Wakefield (version 2) - Oliver GOLDSMITH
The Vicar of Wakefield (version 2) - Oliver GOLDSMITH
- Author: Oliver GOLDSMITH
- Genre: Family Life / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
First published in 1766, the loveable and innocent Dr Primrose and his family have given pleasure to all that have read it.The story opens with the vicar losing his fortune and moving to another parish. What follows is a tale of love, deceit,...
The Pennycomequicks - Sabine Baring-Gould
The Pennycomequicks - Sabine Baring-Gould
- Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
- Genre: Family Life / Humorous Fiction / Romance
The Pennycomequicks is the charming and witty story of a dysfunctional English family in the late 19th century, scattered to the winds, scarred and battered by human and Divine tragedy, struggling for sustenance of the material and / or immaterial...
The Haunted Room - Charlotte Maria Tucker
The Haunted Room - Charlotte Maria Tucker
- Author: Charlotte Maria Tucker
- Genre: Family Life / Christian Fiction
Mr. Trevor inherits a piece of land in the country called Myst Court, and plans to move there with his three children: Emmie, Bruce, and Vibert. But rumor says that a room in the house that is haunted. Bruce and Mr. Trevor tell Emmie there are no...
The Coming of Bill (or: Their Mutual Child; or: The White Hope) - P. G. Wodehouse
The Coming of Bill (or: Their Mutual Child; or: The White Hope) - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The Coming of Bill tells the story of Kirk Winfield, his marriage to Ruth, and their child called Bill. Bill's upbringing is threatened by the interference of Ruth's busybody writer aunt, Mrs Lora Delane Porter (Introduction by Wikipedia)...
The Maid of Maiden Lane (dramatic reading) - Amelia E. BARR
The Maid of Maiden Lane (dramatic reading) - Amelia E. BARR
- Author: Amelia E. BARR
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Family Life / Historical Fiction
The Maid of Maiden lane is a wonderful love story in which Mrs. Barr intertwines the hot political and social issues that were occurring in America during the last decade of the 18th century with an excellent love story plot. Some of those issues...
Household Puzzles - Pansy
Household Puzzles - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Family Life / Christian Fiction
Household Puzzles peeks into the life of the Randolph family, four daughters and one son. They are financially strapped but must follow societal expectations . . . and the expectations of Helen, the eldest daughter, who is a slave to the whims of...
Rainbow Valley - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Rainbow Valley - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Family Life
Rainbow Valley, the seventh book in the Anne of Green Gables series explores the world of Anne & Gilbert’s six children along with the exploits of the Merediths, the children of the town’s new minister. With no mother and an absent-minded...
My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard - Elizabeth COOPER
My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard - Elizabeth COOPER
- Author: Elizabeth COOPER
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Family Life
"I hope that this book, based on letters shown me many years after they were written, will give a faint idea of the life of a Chinese lady. The story is told in two series of letters conceived to be written by Kwei-li, the wife of a very high...
Father - S.E. KISER
Father - S.E. KISER
- Author: S.E. KISER
- Genre: Family Life / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
A tribute to fatherhood by a little known author, - Summary by David Lawrence...
Brother Jacob - George Eliot
Brother Jacob - George Eliot
- Author: George Eliot
- Genre: Family Life / Short Stories
Brother Jacob is a short story by George Eliot, in which she explores the relationship between the selfish, self-centered and ambitious David Faux and his idiot brother, Jacob. - Summary by Lynne Thompson...
Stories of Troubled Marriages - Ella D'Arcy
Stories of Troubled Marriages - Ella D'Arcy
- Author: Ella D'Arcy
- Genre: Family Life
Anyone who is, or has been, married knows that marriage takes work. While some marriages may be 'made in heaven', others, quite simply, are not. This short anthology comprises stories of the second variety, as expounded by some of our favorite...
Phoebe Deane - Grace Livingston Hill
Phoebe Deane - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Romance
Second book in the Marcia Schuyler trilogy. Phoebe Deane lives almost as a servant in her brother's home, tormented by her hateful sister-in-law. Schemes to marry her off swirl around her. Her fate seems to be marriage to an abusive man with several...
The Egoist - George Meredith
The Egoist - George Meredith
- Author: George Meredith
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1800 -1900
The Egoist is a tragi-comical novel by George Meredith published in 1879. The novel recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patterne and his attempts at marriage; jilted by his first bride-to-be, he vacillates between the sentimental...
The Romance of a Shop - Amy Levy
The Romance of a Shop - Amy Levy
- Author: Amy Levy
- Genre: Family Life
Praised by Oscar Wilde amongst other contemporaries, Amy Levy's first novel tells the story of the four Lorimer sisters, who decide to open their own photography business after the death of their father which has left them in poverty. The novel...
Cane - Jean Toomer
Cane - Jean Toomer
- Author: Jean Toomer
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Family Life
Reading this book, I had a vision of a land, heretofore sunk in the mists of muteness, suddenly rising up into the eminence of song. Innumerable books have been written about the South; some good books have been written in the South. This book is...