Romance - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 5
The Shepherd of the Hills - Harold Bell WRIGHT
The Shepherd of the Hills - Harold Bell WRIGHT
- Author: Harold Bell WRIGHT
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
The story depicts the lives of mountain people living in the Ozarks and the mystery surrounding an old man called 'The Shepherd of the Hills,' who's called Dad Howitt. The backdrop storyline surrounds the pretty Samantha Lane, called Sammy, and her...
The Amazing Interlude - Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Amazing Interlude - Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
It is the early days of The Great War. As the curtain rises, Sara Lee is sitting by the fire in her aunt and uncle’s home, knitting a baby afghan. Her beau’s name is Harvey. He has his eye on a little house that is just perfect for two and he will...
Doctor Wortle's School - Anthony Trollope
Doctor Wortle's School - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
Anthony Trollope’s fortieth novel, published in 1881, concerns a respectable Christian boys’ school whose proprietor unknowingly hires a woman who apparently has two husbands: A devoted English scholar and an abusive drunkard from the American...
An Unfinished Story - Richard Harding Davis
An Unfinished Story - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: Romance
A very congenial dinner party is ongoing. Among the distinguished guests are also one author and one painter, who have just been told that their work does not reflect reality. Their work is good, of course, but reality is different than in the...
The Mayor's Wife - Anna Katharine Green
The Mayor's Wife - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Romance
Miss Saunders is out for an adventure. One, which is full of secrets, hints, and half-lies. One, which will require all of her wits. She is to be the companion to the Mayor's wife. The Lady is unhappy, and the reason for her grave unhappiness is...
Damon and Delia - William GODWIN
Damon and Delia - William GODWIN
- Author: William GODWIN
- Genre: Romance
Damon and Delia fall in love instantly. Unfortunately, Damon is promised to another. Can true love prevail? Damon and Delia is a romance that is a bit tongue in cheek. It was penned on commission by William Godwin, political philosopher and writer,...
The Sheik - E. M. HULL
The Sheik - E. M. HULL
- Author: E. M. HULL
- Genre: Romance
The novel on which the famous silent movie starring Rudolf Valentino was based. The plot is set in motion as Lady Conway disapproves of Diana's planning a desert trip with just her Arab guides to accompany her. Diana gets kidnapped by the Sheik,...
Domestic Bliss - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Domestic Bliss - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Family Life / Romance / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
This scene of 'Domestic Bliss' is from Poems of Cheer by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. (Pub 1914) - Summary by David Lawrence...
The Scottish Chiefs - Jane PORTER
The Scottish Chiefs - Jane PORTER
- Author: Jane PORTER
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
An adventure novel about William Wallace, one of the most popular books ever written by Jane Porter. The French version was even banned by Napoleon, and the book has remained very popular with Scottish children, but is equally enjoyable for adults....
The Road to Understanding - Eleanor H. Porter
The Road to Understanding - Eleanor H. Porter
- Author: Eleanor H. Porter
- Genre: Family Life / Romance
"If Burke Denby had not been given all the frosted cakes and toy shotguns he wanted at the age of ten, it might not have been so difficult to convince him at the age of twenty that he did not want to marry Helen Barnet." "Of course the inevitable...
The Giaour - George Gordon, Lord Byron
The Giaour - George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Author: George Gordon Lord Byron
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Poetry / Romance
"The Giaour" is a poem by Lord Byron first published in 1813 and the first in the series of his Oriental romances. "The Giaour" proved to be a great success when published, consolidating Byron's reputation critically and commercially. (Summary by...
Northwest! - Harold BINDLOSS
Northwest! - Harold BINDLOSS
- Author: Harold BINDLOSS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
Northwest! takes place in western Canada, primarily western Alberta and British Columbia. The story revolves around Jimmy not being sure whether or not he shot and killed a Northwest Mounted while he and some friends were out hunting one day. Not...
Alexander's Bridge (version 3) - Willa Sibert Cather
Alexander's Bridge (version 3) - Willa Sibert Cather
- Author: Willa Sibert Cather
- Genre: Romance
Alexander's Bridge is the first novel by Willa Cather, published under the name Willa Sibert Cather. Heavily influenced by the works of Henry James, the book tells the story of bridge builder Bartley Alexander. Through his relationship with Actress...
Les Misérables Vol. 1 - Victor HUGO
Les Misérables Vol. 1 - Victor HUGO
- Author: Victor HUGO
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
This is book 1 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...
The Trespasser - D. H. Lawrence
The Trespasser - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
Brief Encounter meets Tristan und Isolde - on the Isle of Wight, under a vast sky florid with stars. The consequence is tragic indeed for one of the parties, Siegmund, when he sacrifices family life for a few days’ transcendent rapture. His lover,...
The Emancipated - George Gissing
The Emancipated - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Romance
In Italy, everything is possible. Or, at least, much more than in the oppressive social order of the Victorian era. A group of British expatriats go to tour the country and do things they might live to either bless or regret. This book details their...
Anna Karenina, Book 6 - Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina, Book 6 - 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. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage to follow her heart and must endure the hypocrisies of society....
The Girl with the Golden Eyes - Honoré de Balzac
The Girl with the Golden Eyes - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Listeners who like to plunge straight into a story would do well to skip the lengthy preamble. Here, Balzac the virtuoso satirist depicts the levels of Parisian society as a version of the Inferno of Dante - but perhaps keeps the reader waiting too...
The History of Lady Julia Mandeville - Frances Moore BROOKE
The History of Lady Julia Mandeville - Frances Moore BROOKE
- Author: Frances Moore BROOKE
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Lady Julia, the daughter of the earl of Belmont, and Mr. Henry Mandeville are falling in love. Though Henry is like a family friend, this love is not welcomed because the lady Julia is promised to someone else (or so Henry thinks). When they'll...
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
- Author: Emily Brontë
- Genre: Romance
A tale of passion set in the bleak Yorkshire moors in mid 19thC, far from the Victorian uprightness, Wuthering Heights depicts the mutual love of Catherine and Heathcliff till destruction rends the narration; yet cruelty is only to be met with...
Miss Billy's Decision - Eleanor H. Porter
Miss Billy's Decision - Eleanor H. Porter
- Author: Eleanor H. Porter
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
When Miss Billy closed, Miss Billy and Bertram were happily engaged. In this first sequel to Miss Billy will the path to wedded bliss run smooth or will misunderstandings and heartache cross their path? Find out in Miss Billy’s Decision! (Summary by...
Adeline Mowbray - Amelia OPIE
Adeline Mowbray - Amelia OPIE
- Author: Amelia OPIE
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Everybody makes mistakes, and everything has a price. This novel describes, according to its name, the life of Adeline Mowbray, full of everything: sorrow, happiness, falsehood, truth, kindness, and mistakes. This novel is an exploration of the...
Sybil, or the Two Nations - Benjamin DISRAELI
Sybil, or the Two Nations - Benjamin DISRAELI
- Author: Benjamin DISRAELI
- Genre: Romance
Sybil is one of the most prominent political novels of the mid-nineteenth century, taking as its subject the "condition of England" question. That phrase was first used by Thomas Carlyle in an essay of 1839 on Chartism, a working-class protest...
Anna Karenina, Book 8 - Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina, Book 8 - 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 8, Vronsky leaves for the Servian war, unable to live without Anna and hoping to die. Back at his farm with a...
The Rosary - Florence Louisa BARCLAY
The Rosary - Florence Louisa BARCLAY
- Author: Florence Louisa BARCLAY
- Genre: Romance
"The Rosary" is a beautiful love story. Gareth Dalmain falls in love with the Honorable Jane Champion. She loves him back, but does not trust his love, as is known to be a great lover of beauty, and she - alas - is very plain. Just as she decides to...
John Marchmont's Legacy - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
John Marchmont's Legacy - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Romance
Like Wuthering Heights, the center of this story is a dramatic love triangle, the setting is a huge English manor. Olivia Marchmont has always "done her duty." However, when she falls in love and her beloved is in love with another woman, the malice...
The Money Moon: A Romance - John Jeffery FARNOL
The Money Moon: A Romance - John Jeffery FARNOL
- Author: John Jeffery FARNOL
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The Money Moon is a light-hearted romance. Jilted in love, our American millionaire hero, George Bellow, takes a walking tour of the Kent countryside to overcome the “Haunting Spectre of the Might Have Been”. Along the way he makes friends with a...
Doom Castle - Neil MUNRO
Doom Castle - Neil MUNRO
- Author: Neil MUNRO
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Detective Fiction / Romance
Doom Castle is the story of young Count Victor's journey to Scotland after the Jacobite Rebellion, searching for a traitor to the Jacobite cause as well as a mysterious man under the name of "Drimdarroch", whom he swore revenge. After a perilous...
His Grace of Osmonde - Frances Hodgson Burnett
His Grace of Osmonde - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
His Grace of Osmonde, being the portions of that nobleman's life omitted in the relation of his Lady's story presented to the world of fashion under the title of 'A Lady of Quality'(Summary by Frances Hodgson Burnett)...
Rupert of Hentzau - Anthony Hope
Rupert of Hentzau - Anthony Hope
- Author: Anthony Hope
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
This is the sequel to 'The Prisoner of Zenda'. Five years have passed. The King has become jealous of Rudolf Rassendyll and suspicious of the queen (Flavia)'s feelings towards him. Flavia decides that this must be the last year in which she sends to...
Life and Death of Harriett Frean - May Sinclair
Life and Death of Harriett Frean - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
Harriett Frean is a well-to-do, unmarried woman living a life of meaningless dependency, boredom, and unproductivity as she patiently cares for her aging parents, waiting for a man to marry. When her opportunity for Love finally comes, she is...
The Merry Anne - Samuel Merwin
The Merry Anne - Samuel Merwin
- Author: Samuel Merwin
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Romance
This 1904 maritime adventure is set in the Great Lakes region, upon water and in wood. Our hero is caught in a smuggling scheme and may lose his boat and his sweetheart. With a fast pace and interesting plot, the story is made realistic with very...
Throckmorton - Molly Elliot SEAWELL
Throckmorton - Molly Elliot SEAWELL
- Author: Molly Elliot SEAWELL
- Genre: Romance
This is a novel about the lives of the members of the Temple family and their connections in Tidewater, Virginia, in the Reconstruction era. The widow Judith Temple and her sister in law Jacqueline live quietly on the Temple plantation, when the...
The Antiquary - Andrew Lang
The Antiquary - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Illegitimacy, false identity, and bankruptcy are the major elements of Sir Walter Scott's 1816 novel, The Antiquary. Set in the period of the French Revolution, the novel's hero, Lovel, struggles to gain repute and the hand of his beloved despite...
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man - Sinclair Lewis
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man - Sinclair Lewis
- Author: Sinclair Lewis
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
"At thirty-four Mr. Wrenn was the sales-entry clerk of the Souvenir Company. He was always bending over bills and columns of figures at a desk behind the stock-room. He was a meek little bachelor--a person of inconspicuous blue ready-made suits, and...
The Visioning, A Novel - Susan Glaspell
The Visioning, A Novel - Susan Glaspell
- Author: Susan Glaspell
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Romance
"The Visioning, Susan Glaspell's second novel, tells about Katie Jones, a young woman who lives in the comfortable world she knows with a charming circle of friends. Her brother is an army officer, and her uncle lives in Washington. The world she...
Christina - L. G. MOBERLY
Christina - L. G. MOBERLY
- Author: L. G. MOBERLY
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
"Christina is a story of two people: Christina, a strong young and poor woman who searches for work and finds more than she bargained for, and Rupert, a middle class man who is pressured to marry and settle down. These 2 people meet frequently and...
That Lass o' Lowrie's - Frances Hodgson Burnett
That Lass o' Lowrie's - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: Romance
Frances Hodgson Burnett was born and grew up in Manchester, England, and emigrated to the United States with her family at the age of 16. For her first novels, written in Knoxville, Tennessee and published in New York, she drew upon her knowledge of...
The Rose-colored World, and Other Fantasies - Ethel Mary BRODIE
The Rose-colored World, and Other Fantasies - Ethel Mary BRODIE
- Author: Ethel Mary BRODIE
- Genre: Romance
Love stories make perfect short stories. This collection contains 16 different short stories on the different ways a love affair can play out. - Summary by Carolin...
The Abbot's Ghost or Maurice Treherne's Temptation - Louisa May Alcott
The Abbot's Ghost or Maurice Treherne's Temptation - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Romance
Written by Louisa May Alcott under her pseudonym, A. M. Barnard, this Christmas story deals with the themes of love and defending one's honor. Although he is disinherited and poor, Maurice Traherne tries to win the hand of his love, Octavia.(Summary...
