Romance - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 3
Flowing Gold - Rex Beach
Flowing Gold - Rex Beach
- Author: Rex Beach
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
Unfairly given a dishonorable discharge from the army, Calvin Gray goes to Dallas, where he manages to win the trust of a jeweler and is able to sell a number of diamonds to the newly oil rich Briskows. He makes friends with the family and helps...
Kathleen - Christopher Morley
Kathleen - Christopher Morley
- Author: Christopher Morley
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
A group called the Scorpions, eight Oxford undergraduates, find a letter Kathleen wrote a letter to Joe at Oxford. They build up an image of Kathleen and Joe from the letter and set out to find and meet Kathleen. The competition between them leads...
The Mystery of Mary - Grace Livingston Hill
The Mystery of Mary - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
Handsome young Tryon Dunham has just returned home on the train from a business trip one evening when he's accosted by a beautiful young woman at the station. She's terrified that she's being followed and asks Dunham if she may walk with him away...
Double Falsehood; or, The Distrest Lovers - Lewis Theobald
Double Falsehood; or, The Distrest Lovers - Lewis Theobald
- Author: Lewis Theobald
- Genre: Romance
This play is based on story told in Cervantes' Don Quixote, and some believe it is a reconstruction of a lost play by Shakespeare and Fletcher. Duke Angelo and his son Roderick are concerned about the activities of the duke's younger son, Henriquez....
Jim of the Hills - A Story in Rhyme - C. J. Dennis
Jim of the Hills - A Story in Rhyme - C. J. Dennis
- Author: C. J. Dennis
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance / Narratives
Jim, an axe-man for a sawmill, who is a hard-knuckled, two-fisted fighting man when he has to be, but is shy around women, longs to find a wife and settle down. Two women, one a mercenary widow of the country town, the other a classy city girl, both...
An Amiable Charlatan - E. Phillips Oppenheim
An Amiable Charlatan - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating his food, and hands him a packet underneath the table! So begins Paul Walmsley's acquaintance - and adventures...
Anna Karenina, Book 7 - Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina, Book 7 - 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 7, Levin, in town for Kitty’s confinement, finds himself drawn to the corruptive influence of Moscow society....
A Happy Boy - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
A Happy Boy - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
- Author: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
- Genre: Romance
"A Happy Boy" was written in 1859 and 1860. It is, in my estimation, Bjørnson's best story of peasant life. In it the author has succeeded in drawing the characters with remarkable distinctness, while his profound psychological insight, his...
The Dove in the Eagle's Nest - Charlotte Mary Yonge
The Dove in the Eagle's Nest - Charlotte Mary Yonge
- Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Christina is an ordinary girl who lives with her aunt and uncle. Life is normal until one day when her father appears and plans to take Christina away to live with him at a robber baron's castle. Her peaceful life has suddenly turned upside down,...
The Witness - Grace Livingston Hill
The Witness - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Romance
Paul Cortland seems to have it all as a popular, successful athlete and college student. Tragedy leads him to find peace through the faith of a classmate. Paul must overcome temptations of his own emotions and troublesome friends to grow in his...
Coffee Break Collection 005 - Love and Relationships - Various
Coffee Break Collection 005 - Love and Relationships - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Romance / Anthologies
This is a collection of 20 short works (between 3 and 15 minutes long) that are great for work/study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only have a few minutes to devote to listening. The theme for...
The Blazed Trail - Stewart Edward White
The Blazed Trail - Stewart Edward White
- Author: Stewart Edward White
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
Stewart Edward White wrote fiction and non-fiction about adventure and travel, with an emphasis on natural history and outdoor living. White's books were popular at a time when America was losing its vanishing wilderness and many are based on his...
Secresy, or, the Ruin on the Rock - Eliza Fenwick
Secresy, or, the Ruin on the Rock - Eliza Fenwick
- Author: Eliza Fenwick
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Romance
This is the story of Caroline and Sibella, two female friends. Strong and smart women who try to make it in a man's world while keeping their values and loyalties intact. The only way to do that is to hide a few secrets. Yet secrets cannot remain...
Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power - Louisa May Alcott
Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Romance / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Fans of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women will remember that her heroine Jo wrote racy novels before turning her hand to more "serious" literature. Alcott, writing under the pseudonym A. M. Barnard, often did the same, and Behind a Mask (1866) is one...
Anne of Avonlea (version 3) (dramatic reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of Avonlea (version 3) (dramatic reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Dramatic Readings / Romance
Following Anne of Green Gables (1908), the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley. This book follows Anne from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that she teaches at Avonlea school. It includes many of the characters from...
The Old Peabody Pew - Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Old Peabody Pew - Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance / *Non-fiction
A sweet, old fashioned Christmas romance set in an old New England meeting house. (Summary by Maria Therese)...
John Halifax, Gentleman - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
John Halifax, Gentleman - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
- Author: Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
This novel, published in 1856, was one of the popular and beloved novels in the Victorian era. It is told in the first person by Phineas Fletcher, an invalid son of a Quaker tanner who is presented to us in the beginning as a lonely youth. John...
Much Ado About Nothing (version 2) - William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy / Romance
Much Ado About Nothing is generally considered one of Shakespeare’s best comedies, because it combines elements of robust hilarity with more serious meditations on honor, shame, and court politics. Much Ado About Nothing chronicles two pairs of...
Modeste Mignon - Honoré de Balzac
Modeste Mignon - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Modeste Mignon, a young provincial woman of romantic temperament, imagines herself to be in love with the famous Parisian poet Melchior de Canalis. However, he is not moved by her attentions. He invites his secretary Ernest de la Brière to "deal...
The Passionate Friends - H. G. Wells
The Passionate Friends - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
H. G. Wells is best known for his science fiction, but some of his greatest works were in other genres. The Passionate Friends is a love story. It also is a story about dreams, despair, jealousy, sex, the struggle against social convention, the...
The Lone Wolf - Louis Joseph Vance
The Lone Wolf - Louis Joseph Vance
- Author: Louis Joseph Vance
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Romance
The Lone Wolf is the first of eight books in a series featuring the jewel thief turned private detective Michael Lanyard. With his identity betrayed and the police on his heels, he must fly from Paris, which is made much more difficult by his...
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 2 - Eliza Haywood
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 2 - Eliza Haywood
- Author: Eliza Haywood
- Genre: Romance
This has been said to be the first female development novel in English. Betsy leaves her emotionally and financially abusive husband Munden and experiences independence before she decides to marry again. The novel has marital advice told via quips...
Dead Love Has Chains - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Dead Love Has Chains - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Romance
We see another facet of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's amazing talent in Dead Love Has Chains, written in her seventies. Focusing on character and human psychology rather than detection and crime, this is one of her most interesting novels. Pregnant and...
Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
- Author: George Eliot
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
In this enduring Victorian classic written in 1876, two stories weave in and out of each other: The first is about Gwendolen, one of Eliot's finest creations, who grows from a self-centered young beauty to a thoughtful adult with an expanded vision...
Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women (version 2) - George MacDonald
Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women (version 2) - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Romance / Fantasy Fiction
An author who means to end a story with some variation of “And they all lived happily ever after” had better deal before that point not just with evil, strife, and terror but also with loss, failure, sacrifice, and death—or the ending will not be...
Phantom Fortune, A Novel - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Phantom Fortune, A Novel - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Romance
Lady Maulevrier was once a beautiful socialite, beloved and welcomed in London high society. But her life took a turn for the worse when her husband, whom she married only for his fortune, committed a terrible crime in India. Forty years later, she...
The Touchstone - Edith Wharton
The Touchstone - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Stephen Glennard's career is falling apart and he desperately needs money so that he may marry his beautiful fiancee. He happens upon an advertisement in a London magazine promising the prospect of financial gain. Glennard was once pursued by...
Philomène's Marriages - Henry Gréville
Philomène's Marriages - Henry Gréville
- Author: Henry Gréville
- Genre: Romance
'Philomène’s Marriages' is a story of French life, located in Normandy, and also in Paris, and is a translation from the French of a new work by the gifted and popular authoress, Henry Gréville, whose works have become so famous and popular, that...
Rowdy of the Cross L - B. M. Bower
Rowdy of the Cross L - B. M. Bower
- Author: B. M. Bower
- Genre: Romance / Westerns
There's bad blood between Rowland ''Rowdy'' Vaughan and Harry Conroy. Really bad blood. But Rowdy is crazy about Harry's sister, Jessie. Really crazy. And Jessie thinks the world of Harry and doesn't believe he would ever do anything bad, but... -...
The Honor of the Big Snows - James Oliver Curwood
The Honor of the Big Snows - James Oliver Curwood
- Author: James Oliver Curwood
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
What unseen force may have brought young Jan Thoreau and his music from out of the barren lands into the remote camp of Lac Bain, forever changing the lives of those few who lived there? What brought him to the home of John and Melisse Cummins as...
Emma (version 2) - Jane Austen
Emma (version 2) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1816, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome, clever, and rich" but is also rather spoiled. Prior to...
Uneasy Money - P. G. Wodehouse
Uneasy Money - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Uneasy Money is a romantic comedy by P.G. Wodehouse, published during the First World War, it offers light escapism. More romantic but only a little less humorous that his mature works, it tells of the vicissitudes of poor Lord Dawlish, who inherits...
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Romance
Anne Elliott, Jane Austen's only aging heroine, has devoted her life to caring for her financially irresponsible family. Just when she is growing content with her uneventful lifestyle, a long-lost flame re-enters the picture -- now as the beau of...
The Romance of an Old Fool - Roswell Field
The Romance of an Old Fool - Roswell Field
- Author: Roswell Field
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
A light-hearted account of a successful middle aged widower who chances to visit the small town in which he grew up to renew old acquaintances and perhaps reflect on his successes since his departure. This visit, however, becomes far more to him...
Marcia Schuyler - Grace Livingston Hill
Marcia Schuyler - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Romance
A compelling love triangle. Marcia is young & sweet. Her older sister Kate is vain & selfish. Marcia deeply admires the man that Kate is to marry: handsome & respected David Spafford. But on the eve of the wedding, Kate elopes with...
The Quest of the Silver Fleece - W. E. B. Du Bois
The Quest of the Silver Fleece - W. E. B. Du Bois
- Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
The Quest of the Silver Fleece is a story of romance, race, economics and politics set around the 1900s. Here, a traditionally educated boy and an unschooled “swamp girl” each begin a journey toward love, ambition and redemption in the “Old South.”...
The Masquerader - Katherine Cecil Thurston
The Masquerader - Katherine Cecil Thurston
- Author: Katherine Cecil Thurston
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
The Masquerader is one of two Katherine Cecil Thurston’s books that appeared on the Publisher’s Weekly best-seekers list in 1905 (The other, The Gambler, is also in the Librivox collection). The Masquerader is part mystery, part romance and part...
Persuasion (version 3) - Jane Austen
Persuasion (version 3) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
"All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone." In persuasion, her last novel, Austen explores the theme of postponed but enduring love, delayed by class boundaries and excessive pride....
An Unwilling Guest - Grace Livingston Hill
An Unwilling Guest - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Family Life / Romance / Published 1900 onward
A young society woman travels to the country to visit her aunt, only to end up as the unwilling guest of a neighboring family. The daughter is not so sure how to deal with this unpleasant circumstance. The young man of the household has met her...
Emma (version 5) - Jane Austen
Emma (version 5) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
A cautionary tale about the evils of interference, matchmaking and good intentions turned awry, Emma is the study of a young woman raised without sufficient discipline or occupation. Handsome, clever and rich, Emma is the epitome of what a young...
