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Opening a Chestnut Burr - Edward P. Roe
Opening a Chestnut Burr - Edward P. Roe
- Author: Edward P. Roe
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900 / Christian Fiction
Walter Gregory is a gentleman whose health is broken down by the stress of Wall Street and the consequences of his fast lifestyle. Disillusioned in love and betrayed in friendship, he returns to visit his childhood home in the country. Who is this...
Love Letter Collection 2008 - Various
Love Letter Collection 2008 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Romance / Letters
LibriVox readers have cast their nets wide to create this small collection of letters and poems, from fiction and from life, from heart to heart and from soul to soul. With love for St Valentine. (Summary by Peter Yearsley)...
Indian Summer - William Dean Howells
Indian Summer - William Dean Howells
- Author: William Dean Howells
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
In his novel Indian Summer, William Dean Howells presents a mellow but realistic story that has the complete feel of that delightful time of the year, although the plot actually spans several seasons. The Indian summer aspect applies to a...
Jo's Boys - Louisa May Alcott
Jo's Boys - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Jo's Boys is the third book in the Little Women trilogy by Louisa May Alcott, published in 1886. In it, Jo's "children", now grown, are caught up in real world troubles. All three books - although fiction - are highly autobiographical and describe...
Idylls of the King - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Idylls of the King - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry / Romance
Idylls of the King, published between 1856 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson which retells the legend of King Arthur, his knights, his love for Guinevere and her tragic betrayal of him, and the...
Black Amazon of Mars (Version 3) - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
Black Amazon of Mars (Version 3) - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Author: Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance / Science Fiction
In his final adventure on Mars, Eric John Stark acquires a relic of an ancient Martian hero, a gem or lens which is believed to be the key to the strength of Kushat, the city that guards the Gates of Death in the frozen north. A brief inspection of...
The Heritage Of The Desert - Zane Grey
The Heritage Of The Desert - Zane Grey
- Author: Zane Grey
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance / Westerns
Jack Hare is a young cowboy who was rescued from sure death by an old settler by the name of August Naab. Hare learns that Naab's ranch is a dangerous place and is challenged by cattle thieves and a corrupt rancher who is after Naab's water rights....
Running Water - A. E. W. Mason
Running Water - A. E. W. Mason
- Author: A. E. W. Mason
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
Although A.E.W. Mason is best known for The Four Feathers, an adventure novel of 1902 set in Egypt and the Sudan (and filmed several times), he was a prolific and popular writer of the period. Running Water, published in 1907, is, like its...
Miss Billy - Eleanor H. Porter
Miss Billy - Eleanor H. Porter
- Author: Eleanor H. Porter
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
Mr. Neilson was determined to name his first child after his boyhood chum, William Henshaw. When the baby disappointed him by being a girl, he was consoled by naming her Billy. Miss Billy, now 18, orphaned and all alone in the world, takes her...
Howards End (version 2) - E. M. Forster
Howards End (version 2) - E. M. Forster
- Author: E. M. Forster
- Genre: Romance
The Schlegels frequently encounter the Wilcoxes. The youngest, Helen, is rejected by the younger Wilcox brother, Paul. The eldest, Margaret, becomes friends with his mother Ruth Wilcox. Ruth's most prized personal possession is her family house at...
Love not me for comely grace - John Wilbye
Love not me for comely grace - John Wilbye
- Author: John Wilbye
- Genre: Poetry / Romance / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Love not me for comely grace by John Wilbye. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 30, 2012 John Wilbye was an English madrigal composer, and is probably the most famous of all the...
The Blue Castle - Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Blue Castle - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Romance
Valancy Stirling, plain, twenty nine, and as yet unsought, is given a year to live by a great heart specialist. This is the story of her year in which she finds a blue castle of happiness in the Canadian woods. The Blue Castle is a 1926 novel by...
The Keeper of the Bees - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
The Keeper of the Bees - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Author: Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Threatened with isolation in a sanitorium for tuberculosis, a young soldier escapes and finds himself healing in a paradisal bee-garden by the ocean, tending bees which he knows nothing about, and other unlikely charges who in their circuitous ways,...
Comedies of Courtship - Anthony Hope
Comedies of Courtship - Anthony Hope
- Author: Anthony Hope
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance / Short Stories
A series of short stories about love and the process of courtship. - Summary by Michele Eaton...
Say and Seal, Volume 2 - Anna Bartlett Warner
Say and Seal, Volume 2 - Anna Bartlett Warner
- Author: Anna Bartlett Warner
- Genre: Romance
The arrival of a new schoolteacher causes quite a stir in the small New England town of Pattaquasset, not the least of it in the house of Mrs. Derrick and her daughter, where the young man boards. Mr. Linden's idea of teaching stretches far beyond...
Miss Crespigny - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Miss Crespigny - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance / Published 1800 -1900
This is a less known, but not less beautiful, novel by the author of The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, The Lost Prince, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Shuttle, and many more. There is something different about miss Lysbeth Crespigny. Raised by...
Peg O' My Heart - John Hartley Manners
Peg O' My Heart - John Hartley Manners
- Author: John Hartley Manners
- Genre: Romance / Satire
The Chichester family have just gone bankrupt due to bank failure. Their situation looks gloomy until Mrs. Chichester learns of the death of her brother Nathaniel. While Nathaniel hasn't left them any money, he put a clause into his will stating...
St. Elmo - Augusta Jane Evans
St. Elmo - Augusta Jane Evans
- Author: Augusta Jane Evans
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Written in prose and full of references to religion and mythology, this book tells the love story between St. Elmo and Edna. He is cynical and worldly, she is as beautiful as a nymph. The book was very popular during the 19th century and inspired...
After the Divorce - Grazia Deledda
After the Divorce - Grazia Deledda
- Author: Grazia Deledda
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance
Giovanna and Costantino Ledda are a happily married couple living with their young child in a Sardinian country village close to their extended family. Costantino is wrongly convicted of murdering his wicked uncle and with no way of supporting...
Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Dr. Grimshawe is a spider-cultivating eccentric. The central secret of the book is an all-encompassing spiders web. The central character is loosely based on the author Nathaniel Hawthorne. He always considered the book as unfinished and it wasn't...
Antonia - George SAND
Antonia - George SAND
- Author: George SAND
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Will love conquer all? An entertaining novel of growth in light of societal pressures of propriety, finance and inheritance of 19th century France. Intriguing events and turns of phrase abound. (Summary by Christine Rottger )...
Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji, Version 2) - Murasaki SHIKIBU
Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji, Version 2) - Murasaki SHIKIBU
- Author: Murasaki SHIKIBU
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Romance
Genji Monogatari, or The Tale of Genji, is a Japanese classic novel from the eleventh century. Supposedly commissioned by members of the Imperial Family, it tells the story of the son of the Emperor's favorite concubine and his role as a privileged...
Gulzara; or The Persian Slave - Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
Gulzara; or The Persian Slave - Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
- Author: Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
- Genre: Romance
“Gulzara, The Persian Slave” is a rare example of a script for a Victorian melodrama that was intended as a private theatrical – to be performed by a limited cast of amateurs in a home or school, not on a public stage. Rarer still, “Gulzara” was...
Countess Erika's Apprenticeship - Ossip SCHUBIN
Countess Erika's Apprenticeship - Ossip SCHUBIN
- Author: Ossip SCHUBIN
- Genre: Romance
The baron is busy building ventures which are doomed to fail. He thinks the next one would be better, and mourns the absence of his wife who went to beg for money from rich friends for his failing ventures. To this world of love, anger and...
The Brethren (Version 2) - H. Rider Haggard
The Brethren (Version 2) - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
A tale of love, romance and chivalry set amongst the backdrop of the climactic months before the opening of the Kings' Crusade. Two English knights are in love with the same maiden. Their devotion and bravery is tested when their beloved is...
Farewell Love! A Novel - Matilde Serao
Farewell Love! A Novel - Matilde Serao
- Author: Matilde Serao
- Genre: Romance
This tragic love story begins by meeting the passionate Anna Acquaviva who is willing to leave her position in society to elope with her lover after her guardian Cesare Dias will not give his consent to the marriage. Things do not turn out quite...
Innocencia: a story of the prairie regions of Brazil - Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay
Innocencia: a story of the prairie regions of Brazil - Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay
- Author: Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Romance
The story of Innocencia, an 18-year-old girl who lives in the prairies of Brazil, is a twist on the traditional love triangle. The plot has been compared to the more famous "Paul and Virginie" and "Romeo and Juliet", but it takes place on the...
Charles Rex - Ethel M. Dell
Charles Rex - Ethel M. Dell
- Author: Ethel M. Dell
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
Excerpt: "Saltash was thoroughly cosmopolitan in his tastes; he liked amusement but he abhorred boredom. He was never really wicked unless he was bored. And then- que voulez vous? He did not guide the star of destiny." On his last night in Valrosa,...
The Romantic Young Lady - Gregorio Martínez Sierra
The Romantic Young Lady - Gregorio Martínez Sierra
- Author: Gregorio Martínez Sierra
- Genre: Romance
Rosario is reading a sentimental novel, A Spring Romance. "Into a life may come visions and phantoms, envoys and heralds of the true love that still delays... But on that divine night, when...." Suddenly, a tremendous lightening flash, a burst of...
An American Tragedy, Volume 2 - Theodore DREISER
An American Tragedy, Volume 2 - Theodore DREISER
- Author: Theodore DREISER
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance
The saga of Clyde, Roberta, and Sondra continues in volume 2 of 2. Social-climbing Clyde Griffiths wants nothing more than to marry the wealthy Sondra Finchley and ascend to the highest levels of Upstate New York society. However, there is a glaring...
The Amethyst Cross - Fergus Hume
The Amethyst Cross - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance
Things look bleak for Lesbia Hales. Her father does not let her marry the man she loves. Her mother is dead. She has to keep secrets in order to promote what she wants for herself. One day, her lover, George Walker, is injured in her home and...
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...
Open The Door - Catherine Carswell
Open The Door - Catherine Carswell
- Author: Catherine Carswell
- Genre: Romance
This award-winning book tells the coming of age story of Joanna Bannerman. Considered largely autobiographical, it shows Joanna with all her complexities and contradictions, some of which are faced by women almost 100 years later. Perfect for those...
The Bagpipers - George SAND
The Bagpipers - George SAND
- Author: George SAND
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
A story of two sets of lovers and the development of their relationships, set in rural France in the mid 19th century. - Summary by PeterTucker...
A Dreadful Temptation - Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
A Dreadful Temptation - Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
- Author: Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller
- Genre: Romance
Jilted by the man she loves, Xenie Carroll has determined that no matter the cost she will exact the ultimate revenge on he who broke her heart. She is tempted over and over with opportunities that she believes will allow her to complete her revenge...
A Weaver of Dreams - Myrtle Reed
A Weaver of Dreams - Myrtle Reed
- Author: Myrtle Reed
- Genre: Romance
Delightful and charmingly predictable, this sweet romance will make you reflect one minute and laugh out loud the next. It's the kind of cozy read that will make the ideal companion on a dreary afternoon or snowy winter's evening. Enjoy!! - Summary...
Thyrza - George Gissing
Thyrza - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: Romance
Thyrza is a working class woman. Three men are in love with her. Even though she is engaged to a man of her class, who is very kind, she falls in love with a rich Oxford student who has no idea what to do with his life. The man, in turn, falls in...
A Mummer's Wife - George Moore
A Mummer's Wife - George Moore
- Author: George Moore
- Genre: Romance
Kate is a dress maker in the north of England who always did what was decided for her: serving those who come her way, marrying a man who is considered suitable, and living all her life "over the hills" she wants so desperately to cross. Until she...
Will Warburton - George Gissing
Will Warburton - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Published two years after Gissing's death, this novel tells the story of Will Warburton. Will loses his money in a failed business venture and has to come to terms with his new job as a grocer. This is a book about acceptance, love, and, of course,...
The Hunchback - James Sheridan Knowles
The Hunchback - James Sheridan Knowles
- Author: James Sheridan Knowles
- Genre: Romance
In this romantic Victorian melodrama, the main characters must learn to see through the deceptive fronts that other present in order to discover their heart’s true desires. Dramatic reversals of fortune prevent Julia, a young lady from the country...
