Romance - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 13
The Convict - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
The Convict - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Author: George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
As young Lord Hadley and his companion Edward Dudley travel along a dark, coastal road, they encounter a young girl pinioned by a fallen wall. They rescue her and alert her father, stationed on the cliff-top, apparently watching for something or...
Cymbeline (Version 2) - William Shakespeare
Cymbeline (Version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Romance
Cymbeline is one of the last plays Shakespeare wrote, classified by scholars as a late romance or comedy. It's famous for featuring a highly convoluted plot that oftentimes feels like a grab bag of elements from Shakespeare's greatest hits: we have...
Henrietta Volume 1 (dramatic reading) - Charlotte LENNOX
Henrietta Volume 1 (dramatic reading) - Charlotte LENNOX
- Author: Charlotte LENNOX
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Romance
Henrietta is a strong willed young lady who will not give in to her aunt and marry the suitors she proposes. She runs away and adventure ensues. However she meets one young man who she is quite taken with but he does not share all about himself and...
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 1 - Eliza Haywood
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 1 - Eliza Haywood
- Author: Eliza Haywood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
The flirtations of a rich young maiden, Miss Betsy Thoughtless with several suitors, as she alienates the right man by refusing to take the issue of marriage seriously. Because of this her guardian commits her to marriage to the wrong man, a...
Juggernaut: A Veiled Record - George Eggleston
Juggernaut: A Veiled Record - George Eggleston
- Author: George Eggleston
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Edgar Braine was consistently successful at all he set out to accomplish. He went through life with goals and worked diligently and with ethical purity in reaching those goals, from becoming editor of the local newspaper on up to his political...
Les Misérables Vol. 4 - Victor HUGO
Les Misérables Vol. 4 - Victor HUGO
- Author: Victor HUGO
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
This is book 4 of 5. -- An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the way, the ex-convict joins a revolution, adopts a daughter, and beats people up. Hooray. (Summary by...
Gwen Wynn - A Romance of the Wye - Thomas Mayne REID
Gwen Wynn - A Romance of the Wye - Thomas Mayne REID
- Author: Thomas Mayne REID
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Gwendoline Wynn, our heroine, is an orphan-heiress who lives on the river Wye. She will live with aunt until she comes of age and her money. Vivian Ryecroft, our hero and a captain in the Hussars, is on a leave of absence in Herefordshire, salmon...
The Lonely Lady of Grosvenor Square - Mrs. Henry de la PASTURE
The Lonely Lady of Grosvenor Square - Mrs. Henry de la PASTURE
- Author: Mrs. Henry de la PASTURE
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Elizabeth de la Pasture, the author of this work, is the mother of the more well known E. M. Delafield- author of Diary Of A Provincial Lady. Jeanne Marney, a country girl, comes to London to care for her ailing aunt. She is lonely and unhappy, yet...
Felix Holt, The Radical - George Eliot
Felix Holt, The Radical - George Eliot
- Author: George Eliot
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
"Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mother's distress), while Felix Holt is a sincere radical. The setting of the book, the 1832 parliament election, is used to discuss the social problems...
Free Air - Sinclair Lewis
Free Air - Sinclair Lewis
- Author: Sinclair Lewis
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
This road trip novel is set in the early twentieth century and follows the experiences of an aristocratic New Englander and her father as they travel by automobile from Minneapolis to Seattle. She is wooed and won by a noble but simple commoner she...
Poor Miss Finch - Wilkie Collins
Poor Miss Finch - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: Romance
“Poor Miss Finch.” That is what everyone calls the courageous protagonist of this book. In other words, “poor thing, she’s blind, isn’t it awful?” Ha! Lucilla Finch is the wisest of all the characters, in spite of, and perhaps because of, her...
Your Affectionate Godmother - Elinor Glyn
Your Affectionate Godmother - Elinor Glyn
- Author: Elinor Glyn
- Genre: Romance
This is a series of seven letters by the eminent author of scandalous romances, Elinor Glyn, written to her godchild Caroline in the years 1912-1914. The Letters give Caroline advice on how best to find her way in life, particularly to matrimony....
A Hypocritical Romance, and Other Stories - Caroline TICKNOR
A Hypocritical Romance, and Other Stories - Caroline TICKNOR
- Author: Caroline TICKNOR
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
This is a collection of twelve original and entertaining little romances. Literature is an important anchor that helps us understand society in the American Gilded Age in the late ninteenth century, and these stories allow us to understand the...
The Yellow House - E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Yellow House - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance / Published 1900 onward
Vicar and his two daughters move to a small, quiet country village and soon learn that their neighbor in the yellow house holds secrets that will changeeverything they thought to be real in their lives. (Summary by Sharon Kilmer)...
Camille - Alexandre Dumas, fils
Camille - Alexandre Dumas, fils
- Author: Alexandre Dumas fils
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The Lady of the Camellias (French: La Dame aux camélias) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils, first published in 1848, that was subsequently adapted for the stage. The Lady of the Camellias premiered at the Theatre de Vaudeville in Paris, France on...
The Female Quixote Vol. 1 - Charlotte LENNOX
The Female Quixote Vol. 1 - Charlotte LENNOX
- Author: Charlotte LENNOX
- Genre: Romance / Published before 1800
The novel formally inverts Don Quixote: as the don mistakes himself for the knightly hero of a Romance, so Arabella mistakes herself for the maiden love of a Romance. While the don thinks it his duty to praise the Platonically pure damsels he meets...
The Secret Power - Marie Corelli
The Secret Power - Marie Corelli
- Author: Marie Corelli
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Romance / Science Fiction
This Marie Corelli novel falls in the realm of fantasy and science fiction with a steampunk element. The story centers around Morgana Royal, a powerful woman who invents an airship, and Roger Seaton, her love interest who has control of a...
The Valley of Silent Men - James Oliver Curwood
The Valley of Silent Men - James Oliver Curwood
- Author: James Oliver Curwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance
Subtitled: A Story of the Three River Country. James Kent has learned that he is terminally ill with perhaps only days to live, and so decides to confess to a murder and thus save an innocent man. Nobody believes his confession, particularly...
Anna Karenina, Book 4 - Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina, Book 4 - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. In Book 4, Anna's husband considers drastic measures to address the flagrant infidelity of his wife, while Kitty and Levin...
A Damsel in Distress - P. G. Wodehouse
A Damsel in Distress - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
A Damsel in Distress is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.S. on October 4, 1919 by George H. Doran, New York, and in the U.K. by Herbert Jenkins, London, on October 17 1919. It had previously been serialised in The Saturday...
The Ninth vibration and other stories - L. Adams BECK
The Ninth vibration and other stories - L. Adams BECK
- Author: L. Adams BECK
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
This is a collection of the following short stories: The Ninth Vibration -- The Interpreter : A Romance of the East -- The Incomparable Lady : A Story of China with a Moral -- The Hatred of the Queen : A Story of Burma -- Fire of Beauty -- The...
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
- Author: Kate Chopin
- Genre: Romance
Owing to its highly personal content focused on feminine sexuality, this LibriVox edition was recorded by eight female readers. The Modern Library edition of The Awakening has an introduction by Kay Gibbons, who writes: “The Awakening shocked...
Adam Bede - George Eliot
Adam Bede - George Eliot
- Author: George Eliot
- Genre: Romance
Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time. The novel has remained in...
Miss Mackenzie - Anthony Trollope
Miss Mackenzie - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
The thirty-five year-old (hence utterly over-the-hill) Miss Margaret Mackenzie, having devoted her life to others, suddenly finds herself with no one to care for, and in possession of a moderate fortune. Having money, she is now much sought-after...
The Cottager to Her Infant - William Wordsworth
The Cottager to Her Infant - William Wordsworth
- Author: William Wordsworth
- Genre: Poetry / Romance / *Non-fiction
Wordsworth was a defining member of the English Romantic Movement. Like other Romantics, Wordsworth’s personality and poetry were deeply influenced by his love of nature, especially by the sights and scenes of the Lake Country, in which he spent...
Theo - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Theo - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
It's described as "A SPRIGHTLY LOVE STORY" and it is written by F. H. Burnett, "one of the most charming among American writers!" (Summary by Project Gutenberg and Elli)...
The Bride of Lammermoor - Sir Walter Scott
The Bride of Lammermoor - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
An historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, part of the Tales of My Landlord series, published anonymously in 1819. Based on a true story, it is set in south-east Scotland and (in this edition) in the reign of Queen Anne, after the 1707 Acts of Union...
Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch - H. Rider Haggard
Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
This is a great book if you're looking for an adventure filled novel. It takes place during the Spanish Inquisition and describes some of the horrors that happened giving you an idea of what it was really like to live during that time period. Follow...
The Winter's Tale - William Shakespeare
The Winter's Tale - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Romance
Mad with jealousy, King Leontes of Sicilia orders his best friend Polixenes killed, his child abandoned, and his wife put on trial for adultery. Sixteen years later, Perdita, raised as a shepherd's daughter, falls in love with Polixenes's royal son...
The Channings - Mrs. Henry Wood
The Channings - Mrs. Henry Wood
- Author: Mrs. Henry Wood
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
This is a saga about life in a small town in England during the Victorian era. The "stars" of this saga are the Channings. Mr. Channing was ill and, because of his poverty, his six children have to work. Many things happen during this saga: a man...
Sarrasine - Honoré de Balzac
Sarrasine - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Romance
Published by Honoré de Balzac in the tempestuous year of 1830, the tale follows the undulating pathways of Sarrasine the sculptor’s shocking journey to his coming of age. As one of the “fathers of realism” Balzac painted with his words a vivid...
Lancelot, or The Knight of the Cart - Chrétien de Troyes
Lancelot, or The Knight of the Cart - Chrétien de Troyes
- Author: Chrétien de Troyes
- Genre: Romance
This medieval French romance is the oldest surviving work about Lancelot. When Queen Guinevere is abducted by Meleagrant, Lancelot must face many trials, physical, emotional, and social, to rescue her. (Summary by Libby Gohn)...
The Vicar's Daughter - George MacDonald
The Vicar's Daughter - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Romance / Christian Fiction
This is the third book of the 'Marshmallow' trilogy. It is a fictional autobiography written by Ethelwyn Percivale, or 'Wynnie'. Her father is a clergyman, Mr. Walton, whose history has already been told in "A Quiet Neighborhood", the first of the...
The Age of Innocence (version 2) - Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence (version 2) - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: Romance
Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with this 1920 novel about Old New York society. Newland Archer is wealthy, well-bred, and engaged to the beautiful May Welland. But he finds himself drawn to May's cousin...
The Man in Lower Ten - Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Man in Lower Ten - Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Romance
Someone had to take the bank notes to Pittsburgh and take a statement from John Gilmore confirming that they were indeed forged. It was McKnight's turn to go, but he was bagging off because he wanted to spend the weekend visiting Alison West in...
The Cruel Painter - George MacDonald
The Cruel Painter - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance / Short Stories
This is the story of a daring college student's quest to win the icy heart of a beautiful girl. Unfortunately, the girl is the daughter of a cunning and sadistic master artist, who takes the student as an apprentice with the express intent of...
The Rainbow Trail - Zane Grey
The Rainbow Trail - Zane Grey
- Author: Zane Grey
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
The Rainbow Trail is a sequel to The Riders of the Purple Sage. Both novels are notable for their protagonists' mild opposition to Mormon polygamy, but in The Rainbow Trail this theme is treated more explicitly. The plots of both books revolve...
The New Life (La vita nuova) - Dante ALIGHIERI
The New Life (La vita nuova) - Dante ALIGHIERI
- Author: Dante ALIGHIERI
- Genre: Romance / Single author / Lyric
One of Dante's earliest works, La vita nuova or La vita nova (The New Life) is in a prosimetrum style, a combination of prose and verse, and tells the story of his youthful love for Beatrice. The prose creates the illusion of narrative continuity...
To Let (Forsyte Saga Vol. 3) - John Galsworthy
To Let (Forsyte Saga Vol. 3) - John Galsworthy
- Author: John Galsworthy
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
‘The Forsyte Saga’ is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties. To Let is the third and final book in the saga (although Galsworthy later published two further trilogies which extend the...
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...
