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Just Sweethearts; A Christmas Love Story - Harry Stillwell EDWARDS
Just Sweethearts; A Christmas Love Story - Harry Stillwell EDWARDS
- Author: Harry Stillwell EDWARDS
- Genre: Romance
“Clearly he was one of those rare beings who can radiate energy standing still and convey the impression of impetuous force without motion, a trick of the eyes, a refusal to sag…. King saw her first as she started across Cherry Street from the far...
Lord Tony's Wife - Baroness Orczy
Lord Tony's Wife - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
Another adventure of the Scarlet pimpernel! As the title suggests, it follows the story of Lord Tony and his wife, Yvonne. It is full of suspense adventure and romance. Lord Tony and Yvonne elope after some disturbing happenings including an angry...
A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover - John WILMOT
A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover - John WILMOT
- Author: John WILMOT
- Genre: Poetry / Romance / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover by John Wilmot. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 6th, 2009....
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...
The Tyranny of Weakness - Charles Neville BUCK
The Tyranny of Weakness - Charles Neville BUCK
- Author: Charles Neville BUCK
- Genre: Romance
Torn between her love for her aging father, a minister steeped in the puritanical values of old New England, and the young Virginian who was born and raised of southern chivalrous tradition, the many and conflicting emotions which stir deep within...
Eyes Like the Sea - Mór JÓKAI
Eyes Like the Sea - Mór JÓKAI
- Author: Mór JÓKAI
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
He was a painter, a poet, a novelist. He lived during the Hungarian revolution and his love of freedom meant his life was often in peril. She was his first love, this girl with the eyes like the sea. She was at heart noble, good and loving. What an...
Almayer's Folly (version 2) - Joseph Conrad
Almayer's Folly (version 2) - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
Almayer’s Folly is about a poor businessman who dreams of finding a hidden gold mine and becoming very wealthy. Kaspar Almayer is a white European. He agrees to marry a native Malayan captured by Captain Tom Lingard, his employer, believing the...
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Romance
Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen’s novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature - “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a...
Anne's House of Dreams (version 2) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne's House of Dreams (version 2) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Anne's story continues with her marriage to Gilbert and their years in the House of Dreams. ( Summary by Karen Savage)Other books in this series by this reader: Anne of Green Gables Anne of Avonlea Anne of the Island Rainbow Valley Rilla of Ingleside...
Bill & Doreen's Courtship (Selections from "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke") - C. J. Dennis
Bill & Doreen's Courtship (Selections from "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke") - C. J. Dennis
- Author: C. J. Dennis
- Genre: Poetry / Romance
"The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke" is a verse novel by Australian novelist and poet C. J. Dennis. The work was first published in book form in 1915 and sold over 60,000 copies in nine editions within the first year. A special pocket edition was even...
The White Linen Nurse (version 2) - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
The White Linen Nurse (version 2) - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Throughout three years of school, Rae Malgregor had been perfectly pliant, perfectly compliant to all the demands placed on her. But now, on the eve of graduation, she couldn’t go on with the mask of artificiality and the air of perfection. She had...
Pride and Prejudice (version 5) - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice (version 5) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Pride and Prejudice, first published on 28 January 1813, is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels. It is one of the first romantic comedies in the history of the novel and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature —"It is a...
A Spinner in the Sun - Myrtle Reed
A Spinner in the Sun - Myrtle Reed
- Author: Myrtle Reed
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
Myrtle Reed may always be depended upon to write a story in which poetry, charm, tenderness and humor are combined into a clever and entertaining book. Her characters are delightful and she always displays a quaint humor of expression and a quiet...
Buttered Side Down - Edna Ferber
Buttered Side Down - Edna Ferber
- Author: Edna Ferber
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
"And so," the story writers used to say, "they lived happily ever after." Um-m-m—maybe. After the glamour had worn off, and the glass slippers were worn out, did the Prince never find Cinderella's manner redolent of the kitchen hearth; and was it...
Calumet “K” - Samuel Merwin
Calumet “K” - Samuel Merwin
- Author: Samuel Merwin
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
"A novel, with several elements of rather unusual interest. As a tale, it is swift, simple, and absorbing, and one does not willingly put it down until it is finished. It has to do with grain-elevator business, with railways, strikes, and commercial...
Villette - Charlotte Brontë
Villette - Charlotte Brontë
- Author: Charlotte Brontë
- Genre: Romance
After a tragedy in her family, Lucy Snow leaves her home to become a teacher at a French boarding school. Lucy soon begins to fight against an overwhelming sense of desolation. Meeting a charming doctor and a strict, peculiar schoolmaster changes...
The Story of Gösta Berling - Selma Lagerlöf
The Story of Gösta Berling - Selma Lagerlöf
- Author: Selma Lagerlöf
- Genre: Romance
"The Story of Gösta Berling" was published in Sweden in 1894 and immediately brought its author into prominence.The tales are founded on actual occurrences and depict the life in the province of Värmland at the beginning of the 19th Century century....
April's Lady: A Novel - Mrs. HUNGERFORD
April's Lady: A Novel - Mrs. HUNGERFORD
- Author: Mrs. HUNGERFORD
- Genre: Romance
This is a delightful Victorian romance by Irish novelist Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, published in 1890. The heroine of this novel, Joyce, finds herself to be in high demand, receiving the attentions of two eligible gentlemen. There is the steadfast...
The Winter's Tale (version 2) - William Shakespeare
The Winter's Tale (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Romance
The Winter's Tale—one of Shakespeare's final plays—tells the story of two neighboring kings, Leontes of Sicilia and Polixenes of Bohemia. Friends since childhood, their relationship is put under a grave test when a maddened and jealous Leontes...
Run to Earth - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Run to Earth - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
A captivating Victorian “sensation” novel by the author of “Lady Audley's Secret”, Run to Earth has it all: scoundrels and mercenaries, love and lust, jealousy, intrigue, and suspense. (Introduction by Gail Mattern)...
Mary Marie - Eleanor H. Porter
Mary Marie - Eleanor H. Porter
- Author: Eleanor H. Porter
- Genre: Romance
A charming 'coming of age' story about a young girl, Mary Marie, whose young life is thrown into turmoil as her parents divorce. As she leads two lives, she comes to realize that her parents still love one another, and engineers a reunion. In the...
The Mystery of the Sycamore - Carolyn Wells
The Mystery of the Sycamore - Carolyn Wells
- Author: Carolyn Wells
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance
Instead of prison time, former governor, Samuel Appleby, sentences his former rival, Daniel Wheeler to imprisonment on his homestead with a very strange addendum.He then endeavors to convince Mr. Wheeler to endorse his son’s candidacy for governor...
Lady Baltimore - Owen Wister
Lady Baltimore - Owen Wister
- Author: Owen Wister
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Augustus visits King's Port, South Carolina, at the request of his Aunt Carola, and at her expense. She wants him to research geneaologies and records to find proof that he is descended from royalty so that he can join her exclusive club, the...
Anna Karenina, Book 2 - Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina, Book 2 - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
In Part 2, Kitty’s health deteriorates from regret and heartbreak, while Levin retreats to his country estate. Anna and Vronsky continue to pursue each other and become the talk of polite society, to the chagrin of Karenin. (Summary by Mary Ann )...
The Bronze Eagle: A Story of the Hundred Days - Baroness Orczy
The Bronze Eagle: A Story of the Hundred Days - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
The Bronze Eagle is a romantic historical novel which takes place during the return of Napoleon and his attempt to reestablish his Empire. The main character is a rich English businessman, who falls in love with an aristocratic young woman, with...
The Port of Missing Men - Meredith Nicholson
The Port of Missing Men - Meredith Nicholson
- Author: Meredith Nicholson
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Romance / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Shirley Claiborne is fascinated by the tall handsome man named John Armitage who seemed to follow her and her brother, Captain Claiborne, as they traveled around Europe. Count von Stroebel had urged Armitage to do something for Austria. Now von...
Beyond the Rocks, A Love Story - Elinor Glyn
Beyond the Rocks, A Love Story - Elinor Glyn
- Author: Elinor Glyn
- Genre: Romance
Forced into marriage to a man who is older and wealthier, young Theodora Fitzgerald contemplates her fate in love, until she meets and falls in love with another. - Summary by Amy Deuchler...
First Love - Ivan Turgenev
First Love - Ivan Turgenev
- Author: Ivan Turgenev
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The "boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her" story is universal but not, I think, banal - despite a surprise ending which notoriously turns out to be very little of a surprise. First Love is...
Black Heart and White Heart - H. Rider Haggard
Black Heart and White Heart - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
Black Heart and White Heart, is a story of the courtship, trials and final union of a pair of Zulu lovers in the time of King Cetywayo. (Introduction by H. Rider Haggard)...
The Diary of a Goose Girl - Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Diary of a Goose Girl - Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Romance
The "Goose Girl" is a young and somewhat independent lady who, in fleeing from her lover with whom there had been a "little tiff," became a "paying guest" at poultry farm in a quiet, out-of-the-way Sussex village, in the care of which she...
The Lucky Piece: A Story of the North Woods - Albert Bigelow Paine
The Lucky Piece: A Story of the North Woods - Albert Bigelow Paine
- Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance / Published 1900 onward
While riding a stage back to the city late in the summer, a youngster had no money to spend, and so gives his lucky piece as payment to a young girl selling berries by the roadside. As time passes, in the Adirondack mountains of northern New York...
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...
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Romance / Satire
Northanger Abbey is a hilarious parody of 18th century gothic novels. The heroine, 17-year old Catherine, has been reading far too many “horrid” gothic novels and would love to encounter some gothic-style terror — but the superficial world of Bath...
A Daughter of the Land (version 2) - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
A Daughter of the Land (version 2) - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Author: Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
A Daughter of the Land follows Kate Bates, one of sixteen children, as she takes the wings of morning to try for independence and the life she's been denied. She dreams of a husband, children, and a farm, yet her actions have far-reaching...
Aucassin and Nicolette - Unknown
Aucassin and Nicolette - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: General Fiction / Poetry / Romance
Aucassin and Nicolette is a medieval romance written in a combination of prose and verse called a “song-story.” Created probably in the early 13th century by an unknown French author, the work deals with the love between the son of a count and a...
Miss Sara Sampson - Gotthold Ephraim LESSING
Miss Sara Sampson - Gotthold Ephraim LESSING
- Author: Gotthold Ephraim LESSING
- Genre: Romance
G.E. Lessing, widely regarded by students of theater as the world's first dramaturg, was also one of the first proponents of the German bourgeois tragedy. Miss Sara Sampson, in which a young woman runs off with a ne'er-do-well who is still entangled...
The Highwayman - H. C. BAILEY
The Highwayman - H. C. BAILEY
- Author: H. C. BAILEY
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
A romance and adventure novel, set in England during the reign of Queen Anne. The book is much unlike the author's later detective short stories. The actual book is difficult to locate and appears to have been forgotten. It is not even listed by...
The Two Destinies - Wilkie Collins
The Two Destinies - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: Romance
Mary Dermody is destined to be together with George Germaine one day, or so at least her grandmother prophesizes. Destiny at first doesn't seem to adhere to this plan, and the pair is separated and lose sight of each other. But when George saves a...
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne - Ann Radcliffe
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne - Ann Radcliffe
- Author: Ann Radcliffe
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
Ann Radcliffe is the founder of the gothic novel. This novel is no exception. The wicked baron murdered the good earl's father twelve years before the novel began. Only twelve years later, free from his mother's wishes, can the earl seek revenge....
Five O'Clock Tea - William Dean Howells
Five O'Clock Tea - William Dean Howells
- Author: William Dean Howells
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
A light-hearted romantic comedy in twelve short scenes, set during a tea party in the home of Mrs. Amy Somers, a widow who is courted by the ingenuous and delightful Mr. Willis Campbell. (Summary by Ruth Golding) CAST: Narrator: Kim Stich Mr. Willis...
