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Ann Veronica - H. G. Wells
Ann Veronica - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Ann Veronica was a controversial book detailing the development of a naive school girl into a "New Woman". When it was published, the Spectator described it as a "poisonous book ... capable of poisoning the minds of those who read it." Although it...
The Rose Garden Husband - Margaret Widdemer
The Rose Garden Husband - Margaret Widdemer
- Author: Margaret Widdemer
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Romance
This novel was written by Margaret Widdemer, who won the Pulitzer prize for her collection of poetry in 1919. Phyllis is a 25-years-old children's librarian. She is good at her job. Yet when she sees a girl from her hometown with two children, she...
Bill & Doreen Get Hitched (Selections from "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke") - C. J. Dennis
Bill & Doreen Get Hitched (Selections from "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke") - C. J. Dennis
- Author: C. J. Dennis
- Genre: Poetry / Romance
"Bill & Doreen Get Hitched" is the sequel to "Bill & Doreen's Courtship". "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...
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
- Author: Charlotte Brontë
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Jane Eyre is not your typical romance. It is a story of a woman who struggles with a world in which she doesn't quite fit. Once finished with her schooling, and with no family that really cares of her she strikes out on her own as a governess. Jane...
When Knighthood Was in Flower - Charles Major
When Knighthood Was in Flower - Charles Major
- Author: Charles Major
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Set during the Tudor period of English history, When Knighthood Was in Flower tells the tribulations of Mary Tudor, a younger sister of Henry VIII of England who has fallen in love with a commoner. However, for political reasons, King Henry has...
The Melting of Molly - Maria Thompson Daviess
The Melting of Molly - Maria Thompson Daviess
- Author: Maria Thompson Daviess
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Meet Molly: a quirky, spirited twenty-five-year old, widowed for 6 years, living in picturesque Hillsboro with her aunt amidst gossipy neighbors, on a strict diet, and in serious boy trouble. There's Arthur, her childhood sweetheart; then, there's...
The Fortunes of Glencore - Charles James Lever
The Fortunes of Glencore - Charles James Lever
- Author: Charles James Lever
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Viscount Glencore has retreated to live alone with his son in Glencore castle after his wife deserted him claiming she did not love him. He wishes to exact revenge on her by denouncing the marriage and therefore proclaiming his son to be...
The Tempest (version 2) - William Shakespeare
The Tempest (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy / Romance
Few plays have been seen as a more fitting conclusion to a playwright's career than Shakespeare's The Tempest. Focusing on the aging sorcerer and rightful Duke of Milan, Prospero, we are transported to a remote island where magic and strange music...
Anne of the Island (version 2) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of the Island (version 2) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Anne is off to Redmond College! She will spend the next three years living and learning, making new friends, and deepening old friendships.Other books in this series by this reader: Anne of Green Gables Anne of Avonlea Anne's House of Dreams Rainbow...
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine - John, Jr. Fox
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine - John, Jr. Fox
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1908 romance novel/western novel written by John Fox, Jr.. The novel became Fox's most successful, and was included among the top ten list of bestselling novels for 1908 and 1909.Set in the Appalachian Mountains...
The Nether World - George Gissing
The Nether World - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
This sad social novel revolves around the problematic issue of money. Michael returns from Australia to London a rich man. However, he hides this fact from everybody and spends money only on the things he really needs. He contemplates leaving his...
A Spinner in the Sun (version 2 dramatic reading) - Myrtle Reed
A Spinner in the Sun (version 2 dramatic reading) - Myrtle Reed
- Author: Myrtle Reed
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Dramatic Readings / Romance
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...
A Day of Fate - Edward P. Roe
A Day of Fate - Edward P. Roe
- Author: Edward P. Roe
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900 / Christian Fiction
A night editor at a New York paper escapes to the country to avoid a nervous breakdown. Providence lands him in the middle of a loving Quaker family in time to save them from being roasted by a lightning strike. Then what could be more natural than...
The Princess Galva - David Whitelaw
The Princess Galva - David Whitelaw
- Author: David Whitelaw
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
Edward Povey had been a correspondence clerk for twenty-two years when he was summarily dismissed. So how did he find himself mixed up with an orphan girl, who was really a princess, as she sought to reclaim her throne from the man who had killed...
The Black Moth - Georgette Heyer
The Black Moth - Georgette Heyer
- Author: Georgette Heyer
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
The year is 1752. Devil, the Duke of Andover, and highwayman Jack, the Earl of Wyncham are at odds over a country squire's beautiful daughter. Cheating at cards, the marital problems of the younger sister of the Duke and the younger brother of the...
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Romance
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fame in her lifetime, putting Prince Edward Island and Canada on the world literary map. Best known for her...
The Beauty and the Monster - Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
The Beauty and the Monster - Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
- Author: Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
- Genre: Romance
A French theatrical adaptation of the famous fairy tale, The Beauty and the Monster is a drama of three characters - Beauty (Sabina), the Beast (Phanor) and Beauty's best friend, Phedima (the third wheel). - Summary by Mary Kay Cast List: Narrator:...
The Phantom of the Opera (version 2) - Gaston Leroux
The Phantom of the Opera (version 2) - Gaston Leroux
- Author: Gaston Leroux
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance
Christine Daae was brought up in the Paris Opera house. Her musician father suddenly dies, telling her he will send her an angel of music to look after her. She grows up and discovers that she is hearing a voice, telling her and teaching her to...
Emma (version 3) - Jane Austen
Emma (version 3) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Jane Austen famously described Emma Woodhouse, the title character of her 1815 novel, as "a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like." Yet generations of readers have loved Emma, as much for her blunders as for her wit and vivacity. Emma,...
Alexander's Bridge - Willa Sibert Cather
Alexander's Bridge - Willa Sibert Cather
- Author: Willa Sibert Cather
- Genre: Romance
Bartley Alexander is a construction engineer and world-renowned builder of bridges going through what's known today (but not in 1912) as a mid-life crisis. Although married to his wife Winifred, Bartley resumes his acquaintance with a former lover,...
The Perfumed Garden - Sheikh Nefzaoui
The Perfumed Garden - Sheikh Nefzaoui
- Author: Sheikh Nefzaoui
- Genre: Erotica / Romance / *Non-fiction
A fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic literature. The book presents opinions on what qualities men and women should have to be attractive, gives advice on sexual technique, warnings about sexual health, and recipes to remedy...
Harrington - Maria Edgeworth
Harrington - Maria Edgeworth
- Author: Maria Edgeworth
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Harrington follows the protagonist of the same name who tries to explore his memories in order to understand his views on Jews. It begins with Harrington's early images of Jews, which are formed by a collection stories told by his maid, of Simon the...
Madame Chrysantheme - Pierre Loti
Madame Chrysantheme - Pierre Loti
- Author: Pierre Loti
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Romance
Pierre Loti (a nom de plume) was for many years an officer in the French Navy, giving him the opportunity to sample and analyze different national and cultural milieux, in which he deeply immersed himself. The present book, said to have formed the...
The Key Note - Clara Louise Burnham
The Key Note - Clara Louise Burnham
- Author: Clara Louise Burnham
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
Love blooms amid the gorgeous scenery of an island off the coast of Maine as a group of vacationers discover an abused boy and set out to rescue him. This 1921 novel is another lovely creation by author Clara Louise Burnham. - Summary by Christi...
Two On A Tower - Thomas Hardy
Two On A Tower - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The plot concerns two – literally starcrossed – lovers: Swithin St. Cleeve, a very young amateur astronomer, and Viviette Constantine, an unhappily married and abandoned woman 8 or 9 years his senior. Each night Swithin climbs the old tower of the...
Montezuma's Daughter - H. Rider Haggard
Montezuma's Daughter - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance
A moving adventure story narrated by Thomas Wingfield, an Englishman, for Queen Elizabeth 1 of England about the murder of his mother, his trail of vengeance against the murderer which leads him to the Spanish Inquisition, slavery, romance and...
Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress - Fanny Burney
Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress - Fanny Burney
- Author: Fanny Burney
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
The plot of Cecilia revolves around the heroine, Cecilia Beverley, whose inheritance from her uncle comes with the stipulation that she find a husband who will accept her name. This proves impossible, and she gives up her fortune to marry for love....
From Jest to Earnest - Edward P. Roe
From Jest to Earnest - Edward P. Roe
- Author: Edward P. Roe
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900 / Christian Fiction
As a practical joke at a house party, a young and beautiful socialite tries to make a fool out of a visiting young missionary to amuse her friends. She pretends to be a seeker in order to win his affections, but gets a lot more than she bargained...
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Edith Wharton's 1911 novel Ethan Frome tells the story of a tragic love triangle. Set in the highly symbolic wintry landscape of Starkfield, Massachusetts, the narrative centers on the title character's fraught relationships with his "sickly,...
I Do Not Love Thee - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
I Do Not Love Thee - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
- Author: Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
- Genre: Poetry / Romance
Librivox volunteers bring you twenty different readings of Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton’s I Do Not Love Thee, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)...
Lavender and Old Lace - Myrtle Reed
Lavender and Old Lace - Myrtle Reed
- Author: Myrtle Reed
- Genre: Romance
"Jane Hathaway and her niece, Ruth Thorne, have never met. Jane invites Ruth for a visit, but leaves before Ruth comes. Ruth agrees to come to Jane for quiet and rest. When Ruth arrives, the maid gives her a letter from her aunt. In the letter, Aunt...
Annie Kilburn - William Dean Howells
Annie Kilburn - William Dean Howells
- Author: William Dean Howells
- Genre: Romance
After 11 years in Rome, Annie Kilburn returns home to the US after the death of her father. But the home she knew is dramatically changed in many ways. She starts to work with sick children, and finds herself attached to them, and to the minister...
A Personal Anthology of Shakespeare - William Shakespeare
A Personal Anthology of Shakespeare - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
This personal anthology is my choice of speeches from Shakespeare that I enjoy reading (that I would like to have had by heart years ago!) and that seem to me to illustrate his unsurpassed use of language. He was a man who seemed to know everything...
Pride and Prejudice: A Play - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice: A Play - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Comedy / Romance
Pride and Prejudice, a comedy of manners and marriage, is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels. In this dramatic adaption by Mary Keith Medbery Macakaye some liberties are taken with the storyline and characters, but it is still a fun listen or...
The Little Gray Lady - Francis Hopkinson Smith
The Little Gray Lady - Francis Hopkinson Smith
- Author: Francis Hopkinson Smith
- Genre: Romance / Short Stories
As every Christmas for the last 20 years, the Little Gray Lady lights a candle in her room and spends the evening alone, thinking of a great mistake she has made so long ago. This year, however, things are to play out differently.. (Summary by...
The Father - August Strindberg
The Father - August Strindberg
- Author: August Strindberg
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900 / Drama
The Father is a naturalistic drama by Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The central conflict is between the Captain and his wife Laura about their daughter Bertha's future. In order to gain sole custody of her daughter, Laura tries to convince...
To the Last Man - Zane Grey
To the Last Man - Zane Grey
- Author: Zane Grey
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
The story follows an ancient feud between two frontier families that is inflamed when one of the families takes up cattle rustling. The ranchers are led by Jean Isbel and, on the other side, Lee Jorth and his band of cattle rustlers. In the grip of...
Julia Ried - Pansy
Julia Ried - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Romance / Christian Fiction
Authored by Isabella M. Alden under the pen name "Pansy." Sequel to "Ester Ried." Julia Ried must take a job as a bookkeeper in a factory to earn a living. The mistress of her boardinghouse influences her in a negative way, drawing her into a life...
The Men of Zanzibar - Richard Harding Davis
The Men of Zanzibar - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: Romance
This is the story of Hemingway, who, after a hunting trip in Uganda, settles in Zanzibar for a while to live among the English-speaking expatriate community on that island. While keeping his true identity well to himself, he falls in love with Ms....
The Heart's Kingdom (version 2 dramatic reading) - Maria Thompson Daviess
The Heart's Kingdom (version 2 dramatic reading) - Maria Thompson Daviess
- Author: Maria Thompson Daviess
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Romance
Charlotte Powers is a woman who loves life, and is set to marry Nickols just as soon as she can figure herself out. However, coming home and meeting the charismatic pastor that seems to have influenced all her friends, tips her worldview, and she...
