Romance - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 4
The Altar of the Dead - Henry James
The Altar of the Dead - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
A fable of literally life and death significance, the story explores how the protagonist tries to keep the remembrance of his dead friends, to save them from being forgotten entirely in the rush of everyday events. He meets a woman who shares his...
Her Mother's Secret - E.D.E.N. Southworth
Her Mother's Secret - E.D.E.N. Southworth
- Author: E.D.E.N. Southworth
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
What kind of secret could a mother be keeping that would keep long time lovers apart, and force her eldest daughter into a hasty marriage? Young Odalite and her cousin Leonidas have lived the past three years apart, with Leonidas at sea, and were...
Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand
Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand
- Author: Edmond Rostand
- Genre: Romance
One of the most beloved French plays of all time, Cyrano de Bergerac is a clever and tragic tale of truth concealed and love denied. Its titular character is a proud, daring swordsman and genius poet who has one terrible flaw: an abnormally large...
The Love of Monsieur - George Gibbs
The Love of Monsieur - George Gibbs
- Author: George Gibbs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
A charming rogue, a stolen birthright, unrequited love, mutiny on the high seas, with a backdrop of 17th century England and the Spanish Main, make for another historical romance from George Gibbs. - Summary by Donald Cummings...
Anne of the Island (version 3) (dramatic reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of the Island (version 3) (dramatic reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction / Romance
Anne of the Island is the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series, written by Lucy Maud Montgomery about Anne Shirley. Anne of the Island was published in 1915, seven years after the bestselling Anne of Green Gables. In the continuing story of...
Heart of the World - H. Rider Haggard
Heart of the World - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
H. Rider Haggard wrote Heart of the World in 1895 and it tells of the search for a secret and hidden Mayan civilization living in a long lost city filled with gold and jewels! It is also a love story of a couple willing to give up everything, and I...
Arcadia in Avernus - Will Lillibridge
Arcadia in Avernus - Will Lillibridge
- Author: Will Lillibridge
- Genre: Romance / Short Stories
Unhappy wife leaves marriage of convenience for another man, the couple running away to the Dakota prairie to set up housekeeping. All seems romantically well... until the ex shows up. Surprisingly modern (if a little theatrical) novella from the...
Red Diamonds - Justin McCarthy
Red Diamonds - Justin McCarthy
- Author: Justin McCarthy
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Romance
In the South African wilderness, six men got together to mine for diamonds and become very rich. They agree that the wealth is to be split equally between them or their heirs after a few years and that the share of any one who died without leaving...
Sleeping Fires - Gertrude Atherton
Sleeping Fires - Gertrude Atherton
- Author: Gertrude Atherton
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
The story of a love so strong that neither the rigid rules of Society in California in the 1800s nor the very bowels of hell could keep a young woman from the love she had found. A story rich in fashion ad feminism showing how determination and love...
Revelations of a Wife - Adele GARRISON
Revelations of a Wife - Adele GARRISON
- Author: Adele GARRISON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
Adele Garrison was the nom de plume of Nana Springer White, an American writer. Her career included time as a schoolteacher in Milwaukee. She later worked as an editor for the Milwaukee Sentinel and then a reporter and writer for the Chicago...
Emma - Jane Austen
Emma - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
Sherry reads Jane Austen’s sparkling comedy of manners with wit and vivacity, and brings the characters to life. Mr. Woodhouse worries and frets, Miss Bates chatters on, and Emma blithely manipulates and misunderstands her friends and family until...
Nomads of the North - James Oliver Curwood
Nomads of the North - James Oliver Curwood
- Author: James Oliver Curwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
An unlikely pair were Neewa, the black bear cub who had been orphaned at a young age, and Miki, part Mackenzie hound, part Airedale and Spitz who had become separated from his master in the frozen reaches of northern Canada. But the two befriended...
Love Insurance (version 2) - Earl Derr Biggers
Love Insurance (version 2) - Earl Derr Biggers
- Author: Earl Derr Biggers
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
On duty with Lloyds of London in NYC, young Richard Minot is sent to the St Augustine-ish town of San Marco to ensure that a wealthy young lady, Cynthia Meyrick marry his firm's client, Lord Harrowby. Then, in a meet-cute on a slow-moving train,...
Khaled, A Tale of Arabia - Francis Marion Crawford
Khaled, A Tale of Arabia - Francis Marion Crawford
- Author: Francis Marion Crawford
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
Khaled is a powerful jinn, or genius, but he has a good heart. When he sees that Zehowah, the beautiful, virtuous daughter of the king is about to accept a foreign prince as husband, who lied about converting to Islam, he takes the law into his own...
Persuasion (version 6 dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
Persuasion (version 6 dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Romance
More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. He was clever, confident, and ambitious, but...
Rough Justice - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Rough Justice - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance
Who murdered Lisa Rainer? Is it her former lover who went to seek fortune in Africa and fell in love with another on the way back? Were there any blood motives? Detective John Thorne would have to discover. Inspired by a true story, this novel is a...
Northanger Abbey (version 2) - Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey (version 2) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Northanger Abbey follows Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath, England. Seventeen year-old Catherine spends her time visiting newly-made friends, such as Isabella Thorpe, and going to balls. Catherine finds...
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 - 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...
Day and NIght - Rupert Brooke
Day and NIght - Rupert Brooke
- Author: Rupert Brooke
- Genre: Romance / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Rupert Brooke was both fair to see and winning in his ways. There was at the first contact both bloom and charm; and most of all there was life. To use the word his friends describe him by, he was "vivid". This vitality, though manifold in...
Madame Butterfly - John Luther LONG
Madame Butterfly - John Luther LONG
- Author: John Luther LONG
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Madame Butterfly is the story of the young Japanese girl Cho-Cho San, who marries a flighty American naval officer, and is thenceforth outcast from her relatives. Anxiously she awaits the return of her beloved husband, but when he finally anchors in...
The Burglar and the Blizzard - Alice DUER MILLER
The Burglar and the Blizzard - Alice DUER MILLER
- Author: Alice DUER MILLER
- Genre: Romance
Geoffrey Holland, a young millionaire, visits his country home in Hillsborough after hearing of a recent string of burglaries. To Holland's surprise, he finds the burglar reading a book in his library. And it's none other than his old schoolmate,...
The Lady of the Lake - Edmund John EYRE
The Lady of the Lake - Edmund John EYRE
- Author: Edmund John EYRE
- Genre: Plays / Romance
At the request of Mr. Siddons, Manager and Patentee of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, the following Performance was composed. I am very sensible that Mr. Scott’s Poem of “The Lady of the Lake” afforded material for a much superior Drama than the one...
The Golden Threshold - Sarojini NAIDU
The Golden Threshold - Sarojini NAIDU
- Author: Sarojini NAIDU
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Religious Fiction / Romance
Sarojini Naidu was a remarkable woman. Known as the Nightingale of India, she started writing at the age of thirteen and throughout her life composed several volumes of poetry, writing many poems which are still famous to this day.As well as being a...
Here, Take My Heart - Thomas Moore
Here, Take My Heart - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Poetry / Romance / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of Here, Take My Heart by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 29, 2012. This weekly poem is one of the many love poems by the 19th-century Irish poet Thomas Moore. Some of his poems...
A Fool There Was - Porter Emerson BROWNE
A Fool There Was - Porter Emerson BROWNE
- Author: Porter Emerson BROWNE
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
Two friends were asked by their respective fathers on their death beds to promise to marry a special girl, who lived across the street and who they had been very fond of since childhood. Once they reached young manhood, one of these fulfilled his...
The Carved Cupboard (Dramatic Reading) - Amy LE FEUVRE
The Carved Cupboard (Dramatic Reading) - Amy LE FEUVRE
- Author: Amy LE FEUVRE
- Genre: Romance / Christian Fiction
Agatha, Gwen, Clare and Elfie have always been told that they will inherit their aunt's house. But when their aunt dies, she leaves it all to their intolerable cousin James. What will they do? Will the verses Nannie gives them prove true? Summary by...
Jo's Boys (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Louisa May Alcott
Jo's Boys (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Romance / Family
Jo’s little men and women are grown up and entering new stages of life. Along with discovering their individual niches, there are lots of lessons to study, plays to perform, and parties to attend… and love is undeniably in the air. When three of...
Other Things Being Equal - Emma WOLF
Other Things Being Equal - Emma WOLF
- Author: Emma WOLF
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Ruth Levice, the daughter of a rich San Francisco Jewish merchant, meats Dr. Herbert Kemp, and they slowly fall in love. However, she is Jewish and he is not. Can love overcome such an obstacle? And what is more important, duty or love? (Summary by...
North and South - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
North and South - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Set in Victorian England, North and South is the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman whose life is turned upside down when her family relocates to northern England. As an outsider from the agricultural south, Margaret is initially shocked by the...
Where the Path Breaks - Captain Charles de CRÉSPIGNY
Where the Path Breaks - Captain Charles de CRÉSPIGNY
- Author: Captain Charles de CRÉSPIGNY
- Genre: Romance
The soldier awakened from the brink of death eight months after his injury on the battlefield. As he slowly regained his senses and his memory, the face of a girl creeps into his mind, and he soon recalls that this girl had married him out of pity...
Helen's Babies - John HABBERTON
Helen's Babies - John HABBERTON
- Author: John HABBERTON
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
In this hilarious novel, Harry Burton, a bachelor white-goods salesman, goes to take care of his sister Helen's two little boys for ten days while she and her husband are out of town. Helen says, "The children won't give you the slightest trouble;...
The Harvester - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
The Harvester - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Author: Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Genre: Romance
The Harvester is one of Gene Stratton-Porter’s romantic novels which combine a love of nature, high moral ideals and a good plot. This is the story of a young man who lives in the country side with his dog and other animals and grows herbs to sell...
Amoretti: A sonnet sequence - Edmund Spenser
Amoretti: A sonnet sequence - Edmund Spenser
- Author: Edmund Spenser
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Poetry / Romance
The Amoretti (meaning little love poems) is a sequence of 89 sonnets written in the tradition of the Petrarchan sonnets, a popular form for poets of the Renaissance period. Spenser’s sequence has been largely neglected in modern times, while those...
Henrietta Temple - Benjamin DISRAELI
Henrietta Temple - Benjamin DISRAELI
- Author: Benjamin DISRAELI
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The Armine family, in particular the young Ferdinand Armine, is in great financial difficulties. Ferdinand's grandfather has burdened the family estate with large debts, which his father did not manage to diminish. Ferdinand himself is not disposed...
The Good-Natured Man - Oliver GOLDSMITH
The Good-Natured Man - Oliver GOLDSMITH
- Author: Oliver GOLDSMITH
- Genre: Romance
By the playwright of the more popular She Stoops to Conquer, The Good-Natured Man is the comedic story of misguided philanthropy, mistaken identity, and secret romance. Will Honeywell, The Good-Natured Man, see through the lies and trickery...
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Romance
The two eldest Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, one of whom (Elinor) embraces practicality and restraint while the other (Marianne) gives her whole heart to every endeavor. When the Dashwoods - mother Mrs. Dashwood, Elinor, Marianne, and...
Cradock Nowell Vol. 1 - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Cradock Nowell Vol. 1 - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Genre: Family Life / Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Cradock Nowell: a Tale of the New Forest is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1866. Set in the New Forest and in London, it follows the fortunes of Cradock Nowell who is thrown out of his family home by his father following the...
Gretchen - Mary Jane HOLMES
Gretchen - Mary Jane HOLMES
- Author: Mary Jane HOLMES
- Genre: Romance
Rich and sophisticated Arthur Tracy returns to Tracy Park after several years abroad confused and mentally unstable. Initially claiming that Gretchen accompanied him on the boat and train back he then expects her to arrive at any moment. Meanwhile a...
Thurley Ruxton - Philip Verrill MIGHELS
Thurley Ruxton - Philip Verrill MIGHELS
- Author: Philip Verrill MIGHELS
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
This is a rags to riches romance about an exceedingly beautiful, poor, young girl (Thurley Ruxton) who is mentored by one of New York’s elite hostesses. In order to draw them into her social circle, she allows all the famous and moneyed populous of...
St. George and St. Michael, Volume 1 - George MacDonald
St. George and St. Michael, Volume 1 - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
’St. George and St. Michael’ is a little-known historical romance telling the story of a young couple who find themselves on opposing sides during the tumultuous years of the English Civil Wars. Tensions are rising between king and parliament, the...