General Fiction - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 28
The Countess of Rudolstadt - George SAND
The Countess of Rudolstadt - George SAND
- Author: George SAND
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
This sequel to Consuelo picks up not long after the striking conclusion of the first novel. Consuelo is enjoying a brilliant singing career. She befriends Princess Amelia of Prussia, the woman adored by Baron von Trenck, whose acquaintance Consuelo...
The Dark Flower - John Galsworthy
The Dark Flower - John Galsworthy
- Author: John Galsworthy
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Galsworthy's classic The Dark Flower is a study of love. Spring is the beginning when all is new and full of hope. However, the woman Lennan has fallen for is out of reach, a forbidden love. Can he overcome the challenges? As he matures, he...
Flaming Youth - Samuel Hopkins ADAMS
Flaming Youth - Samuel Hopkins ADAMS
- Author: Samuel Hopkins ADAMS
- Genre: General Fiction
This book tells the story of the Fentriss sisters and their mother. They are educated and rich. They live in a suburb. They are looking for love. Their quest for love leads them to many different places. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about it: "the...
Lena Rivers - Mary Jane HOLMES
Lena Rivers - Mary Jane HOLMES
- Author: Mary Jane HOLMES
- Genre: General Fiction
If you're a fan of mid-19th Century melodramas with many twists and turns you will love this book. Acclaimed as Holmes greatest commercial success the charming heroine of this tale is Lena Rivers whose mother died when she was a baby. The father is...
Bill the Conqueror - P. G. Wodehouse
Bill the Conqueror - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Hailed as one of the funniest writers of the 20th century, P. G. Wodehouse cheerfully radiates humor that is both sophisticated and popular. In Bill the Conqueror, Wodehouse creates an array of entertaining characters who gallop around England and...
The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham
The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: General Fiction
This Maugham classic is set in England and Hong Kong and in a cholera --ridden Chinese village in the 1920's. A committed, principled, epidemiologist, Dr. Fane, falls in love with the beautiful, but vain and foolish, Kitty Garstin. She agrees to...
The Β£1,000,000 Bank-Note & other new Stories - Mark Twain
The Β£1,000,000 Bank-Note & other new Stories - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction / Single Author Collections
Collection contains: -The Β£1,000,000 Bank-Note -Mental Telegraphy -A Cure for the Blues -The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant -About all Kinds of Ships -Playing Courier -The German Chicago -A Petition to the Queen of England -A Majestic Literary...
Riceyman Steps - Arnold Bennett
Riceyman Steps - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: General Fiction
Arnold Bennet's masterly novel is a gritty tale about a bookseller whose life and love of a woman are afflicted by miserliness. It is set in London's characterful Clerkenwell district shortly after the First World War. - Summary by Anthony Ogus...
Susan - Ernest Oldmeadow
Susan - Ernest Oldmeadow
- Author: Ernest Oldmeadow
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / General Fiction
Susan is a perfect gem of a maid until suddenly she begins to mess things ups and is so distracted that her mistress Gertrude is determined to find out what is bothering her. After much prodding Susan confesses that she has had a marriage proposal...
Bealby; A Holiday - H. G. Wells
Bealby; A Holiday - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Bealby is the comical story of the escapade of a thirteen-year-old boy when he rebels against his placement as a steward's-room boy in the great house of an estate named Shonts (his stepfather, Mr. Darling, is a gardener there) and fleesβnot,...
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James HOGG
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James HOGG
- Author: James HOGG
- Genre: General Fiction
The author calls this a religious parable and it is called an allegory in the book itself. A young, 18th century Scottish boy is converted to strict Calvinist theology, strives for assurance of his salvation as an elect person, eventually confirmed...
A Girl Among the Anarchists - Olivia Rossetti Agresti
A Girl Among the Anarchists - Olivia Rossetti Agresti
- Author: Olivia Rossetti Agresti
- Genre: General Fiction
Helen and Olivia Rossetti were rather precocious girls in Victorian London. While still extremely young, they published a renowned anarchist journal in their home which drew prominent figures to their salon. From their expriences, they co-authored...
The Blind Musician - Vladimir Korolenko
The Blind Musician - Vladimir Korolenko
- Author: Vladimir Korolenko
- Genre: General Fiction
In this sketch, called by Korolenko βa psychological study,β the author has attempted to analyze the inner life of the blind. He has undertaken to lay before the reader not only the psychological processes in the mind of the blind, but their...
The Martian - George du MAURIER
The Martian - George du MAURIER
- Author: George du MAURIER
- Genre: General Fiction
The Martian, by George du Maurier, is a largely autobiographical novel published in 1898 and the author's third. It describes the life of Barty Josselin as told by his close friend Robert Maurice, starting from their school days in Paris in the...
The Age of Innocence (Dramatic Reading) - Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence (Dramatic Reading) - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
The Age of Innocence centers on an upper-class couple's impending marriage, and the introduction of a woman plagued by scandal whose presence threatens their happiness. Though the novel questions the assumptions and morals of 1870s' New York...
Collected Works of Elisabeth Sanxay Holding - Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
Collected Works of Elisabeth Sanxay Holding - Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
- Author: Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
- Genre: General Fiction
A collection of 4 short works by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding. - Summary by Krista Zaleski...
The Fanatics - Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Fanatics - Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Genre: General Fiction
This is a story about a town in Ohio during the civil war. The town is divided by ideology, but can they be united by love and respect? - Summary by Stav Nisser. Note to listeners: Because of the subject of this book, some of the ideas described and...
Sally on the Rocks - Winifred Boggs
Sally on the Rocks - Winifred Boggs
- Author: Winifred Boggs
- Genre: General Fiction
Sally Lunton has led a bohemian lifestyle in Paris, but now at 31 she returns to Little Crampton disillusioned, no job, no money and no hopes for the future except a safe, if loveless, marriage.. Little Crampton has its complement of βtypicalβ...
The Old Church Clock - Richard Parkinson
The Old Church Clock - Richard Parkinson
- Author: Richard Parkinson
- Genre: General Fiction
A fictional "history" of Robert Walker, a dedicated clergyman in the English Lake District, this work, which started as a short magazine 'tale', examines how the lower echelons of the church produces dedicated, religious men, while those who head...
The Lady's Mile - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Lady's Mile - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: General Fiction
If you drive through the Lady's Mile, the most fashionable district in London, you will see people whose most distinguished ambition was to be known in that circle. A novelist, a painter, and some aristocrats, willing to prove themselves to the...
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - George Meredith
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - George Meredith
- Author: George Meredith
- Genre: General Fiction
After his wife's desertion, Sir Austin wants to bring up his son according to a strict educational system governing every aspect of his life. However Richard has to make his own mistakes, fall in love, and generally live his own life. This book...
The Professor's House - Willa Sibert Cather
The Professor's House - Willa Sibert Cather
- Author: Willa Sibert Cather
- Genre: General Fiction
A portrait of Americas many social groups with the chief interest centered on a university professor and his family - Summary by Publishers Weekly September 5 1925...
Stories by English Authors: London - Israel Zangwill
Stories by English Authors: London - Israel Zangwill
- Author: Israel Zangwill
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction
This book collects seven short stories by some of England's best turn-of-the-(last)-century's writers. The collection begins with the humor of J. M. Barrie, of Peter Pan fame. A later and equally humorous story is by Israel Zangwill, also widely...
