Romance - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 6
The Four Feathers - A. E. W. Mason
The Four Feathers - A. E. W. Mason
- Author: A. E. W. Mason
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The Four Feathers is a 1902 adventure novel by British writer A.E.W. Mason that has inspired many films of the same title.The novel tells the story of British officer, Harry Feversham, who resigns his commission in the East Surrey Regiment just...
Tempest and Sunshine - Mary Jane HOLMES
Tempest and Sunshine - Mary Jane HOLMES
- Author: Mary Jane HOLMES
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
Tempest and Sunshine is the first book written by Mary Jane Holmes. Set in the pre-Civil War south, it follows the struggles and romances of two sisters, as different as night and day; blonde Fanny and dark haired Julia. (Introduction by jedopi)...
The Pirates of Penzance - W. S. Gilbert
The Pirates of Penzance - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance / *Non-fiction
The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The story concerns Frederic, who, having completed his 21st year, is released from his apprenticeship to a band...
The Genius - Theodore DREISER
The Genius - Theodore DREISER
- Author: Theodore DREISER
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
"The only figure of literary repute who ever rated The "Genius" as first among the novels of Theodore Dreiser was Theodore Dreiser," literary historian Larzer Ziff observed. His fifth published novel, The "Genius" was actually the third novel...
Anne's House of Dreams - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne's House of Dreams - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
Anne's House of Dreams is book five in the series, and chronicles Anne's early married life, as she and her childhood sweetheart Gilbert Blythe begin to build their life together. (Summary from Wikipedia)...
Jane Eyre (version 2) - Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre (version 2) - Charlotte Brontë
- Author: Charlotte Brontë
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Charlotte Bronte's classic novel Jane Eyre is narrated by the title character, an orphan who survives neglect and abuse to become a governess at the remote Thornfield Hall. She finds a kindred spirit in her employer, the mysterious and brooding Mr....
Pierre and Luce - Romain ROLLAND
Pierre and Luce - Romain ROLLAND
- Author: Romain ROLLAND
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance / War & Military Fiction
Pierre and Luce were an unlikely young pair who found themselves in the chaos of Paris during the war; Pierre, the shy, recently conscripted pacifist, and Luce, the free spirited artist in training, and both confused about the things going on around...
Lucinda - Friedrich von SCHLEGEL
Lucinda - Friedrich von SCHLEGEL
- Author: Friedrich von SCHLEGEL
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Erotica / Romance
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel was born in 1772 at Hannover, Holy Roman Empire, to Johann Adolf Schlegel and Johanna Christiane Erdmuthe Hübsch. He attended Jena University and made friends with many of the writers known by his brother August...
Pauline's Passion and Punishment - Louisa May Alcott
Pauline's Passion and Punishment - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Romance
Before she wrote Little Women and Little Men, Louisa, writing under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, had this `blood and thunder' thriller (as she called them) published in 1863 by a weekly pulp magazine. This was during the period when Louisa worked...
Kilmeny of the Orchard (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Kilmeny of the Orchard (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Romance
A short and sweet romance by the author of "Anne of Green Gables", Kilmeny of the Orchard is a story about a schoolteacher (Eric) who goes to Prince Edward Island and meets a beautiful but mysterious girl. Who is she? Why doesn't she speak? Why...
Les Misérables Vol. 5 - Victor HUGO
Les Misérables Vol. 5 - Victor HUGO
- Author: Victor HUGO
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
This is book 5 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 Golden Lion of Granpere - Anthony Trollope
The Golden Lion of Granpere - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Romance
Time to do a short Continental trip with Trollope and see if we agree with Walpole. "...not only Trollope's very best shorter book, but one of the most charming idylls in English literature. - . . It has all the colour and richness and cohesion of...
Persuasion (version 7) - Jane Austen
Persuasion (version 7) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Romance
Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of 27 years, whose family is moving to get out of debt, rents their home to an Admiral. The brother of the Admiral's wife, Captain Frederick Wentworth, had been engaged to Anne years earlier and now they meet again....
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 3 - Samuel Richardson
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 3 - Samuel Richardson
- Author: Samuel Richardson
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Romance
Clarissa Harlowe, is the tragic heroine of this story, she is a beautiful and virtuous young lady whose family has become wealthy only recently and now desires to become part of the aristocracy. Originally they planned to concentrate the wealth and...
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: Romance
In an era before the advent of electric lights, telephones or motor vehicles, there exists a small cluster of aristocratic "old revolutionary stock" families that rule New York's social life. Under the rules of this society, "being things" is better...
Fuel of Fire - Ellen Thorneycroft FOWLER
Fuel of Fire - Ellen Thorneycroft FOWLER
- Author: Ellen Thorneycroft FOWLER
- Genre: Romance / Fantasy Fiction
"Then was there war in the house of Baxendale. Guy had made up his mind to wed the fair daughter of the forester; while Sir Stephen and Dame Alice his wife had made up their minds — with equal firmness — that no son of their noble name should mate...
The Old Manor House - Charlotte Turner Smith
The Old Manor House - Charlotte Turner Smith
- Author: Charlotte Turner Smith
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The proud, cruel and arrogant Mrs. Rayland never married. Therefore, "Rayland Hall", the old Manor House of the title, had to pass to their heir, Somerive, whom they never treated kindly. According to the British laws at the time, the heir must be...
Mansfield Park (version 2) - Jane Austen
Mansfield Park (version 2) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Miss Frances, the youngest Ward sister, "married, in the common phrase, to disoblige her family, and by fixing on a lieutenant of marines, without education, fortune, or connexions, did it very thoroughly. She could hardly have made a more untoward...
The Window on the Hill - Madison Cawein
The Window on the Hill - Madison Cawein
- Author: Madison Cawein
- Genre: Poetry / Romance / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Window on the Hill by Madison Julius Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 22, 2012. Madison Julius Cawein was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the fifth child of William and Christiana...
Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy
Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
This novel is subtitled The Mellstock Quire, A Rural Painting of the Dutch School. The Quire is the group of musicians who accompany the hymns at the local church and we follow the fortunes of one member, Dick Dewy, who falls in love with the new...
Black Oxen - Gertrude Atherton
Black Oxen - Gertrude Atherton
- Author: Gertrude Atherton
- Genre: Romance / Fantasy Fiction
Lee Clavering, a young playwright falls in love with an Austrian countess, not noticing the adoring glances from the outgoing flapper, Janet. Unknown to the young lover, the object of his devotion is defying age with artifice in this controversial...
The Travelling Thirds - Gertrude Atherton
The Travelling Thirds - Gertrude Atherton
- Author: Gertrude Atherton
- Genre: Romance
The semi-invalid Mrs. Moulton and her long-suffering husband are touring Europe with their two adult daughters, Jane and Lydia. They have firm ideas of what is proper and decorous. Mr. Moulton's young relative, Catalina, does not fit this ideal. Her...
Chicot the Jester - Alexandre Dumas
Chicot the Jester - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction / Romance
This sequel to Dumas' “Marguerite de Valois” begins four years after the sudden death of King Charles IX and succession of his brother Henry III. The reign of King Henry III was plagued with rebellion and political intrigue due to the War of the...
The Battle of Life - Charles Dickens
The Battle of Life - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
While "The Battle of Life" is one of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books - his annual release of a story just before Christmas - this one breaks the tradition by not being concerned with Christmas. Rather, its subtitle, "A Love Story", reveals more of...
Dawn - Eleanor H. Porter
Dawn - Eleanor H. Porter
- Author: Eleanor H. Porter
- Genre: Romance / Family / General
Dawn (also known in England as "Keith’s Dark Tower"), was published in 1919, and is set during World War I. Keith Burton is going blind. It is hard for him and his family. Most of the book deals with their ways - right and wrong - of dealing with...
Mansfield Park (dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
Mansfield Park (dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Romance
Mansfield Park is Jane Austen's 1814 novel focusing on Fanny Price, the daughter of a poor Portsmouth family, who is taken to live with her aunt and uncle Bertram's family on their estate at the age of ten. Surrounded by her wealthy and privileged...
Concerning Isabel Carnaby - Ellen Thorneycroft FOWLER
Concerning Isabel Carnaby - Ellen Thorneycroft FOWLER
- Author: Ellen Thorneycroft FOWLER
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Romance
Isabel Carnaby returns from India. She starts looking for a place in upper class British society. At the begining, people are sceptical of her because she is an orphan. But she will surprise everybody. - Summary by Stav Nisser....
The Call Of The Canyon - Zane Grey
The Call Of The Canyon - Zane Grey
- Author: Zane Grey
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance / Westerns
Glenn Kilbourne returns from the war and travels to Arizona to regain his health. There he is nursed back to health by an Arizona girl, Flo Hutter Kilbourne's fiancée, Carley Burch arrives in Arizona but soon becomes disillusioned with life in the...
Rappaccini's Daughter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rappaccini's Daughter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The story is set in Padua in a distant, but unspecified past. From his quarters, Giovanni, a young student of letters, observes Beatrice, the beautiful daughter of Dr. Rappaccini, a scientist working in isolation. Beatrice is confined to the lush...
The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca WEST
The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca WEST
- Author: Rebecca WEST
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
In 1916 on an isolated country estate just outside London, Captain Chris Baldry, a shell-shocked captain suffering from amnesia, makes a bittersweet homecoming to the three women who have helped shape his life. Will the devoted wife he can no longer...
Pride and Prejudice (version 6, dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice (version 6, dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction / Romance
Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of...
The Country Beyond - James Oliver Curwood
The Country Beyond - James Oliver Curwood
- Author: James Oliver Curwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
The Country Beyond, subtitled A Romance In the Wilderness, is a story of "Jolly" Roger McKay, an outcast on the run from the law; Nada, the girl he falls in love with; and Peter, the devoted mixed-breed dog who links the two together as no human...
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (version 2) - Thomas Hardy
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (version 2) - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Tess of the d'Urbervilles subtitled, "A Pure Woman," is the story of a young working woman named Tess Durbeyfield who is sent by her father to visit wealthy relatives. Her encounter with Alec d'Urberville changes her life forever, and brings about a...
A Simple Story - Elizabeth INCHBALD
A Simple Story - Elizabeth INCHBALD
- Author: Elizabeth INCHBALD
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The story could really have been simple: Miss Milner, who is admired for her beauty and charm, could have been a socialite, marry a respectable and good looking man and be happy in the standards of her time. But if it was so, why would there be a...
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 3 - Eliza Haywood
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 3 - Eliza Haywood
- Author: Eliza Haywood
- Genre: Romance / Sagas
Betsy Thoughtless is about marriage, rather than dealing with courrtship and thus differs from the type of domestic writing that would develop in the 19th century such as Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Rather than attracting a partner well, Betsy...
The Divine Companion - James Allen
The Divine Companion - James Allen
- Author: James Allen
- Genre: Poetry / Romance / *Non-fiction
James Allen was a British philosophical writer known for his inspirational books and poetry and as a pioneer of the self-help movement. In the introduction Lily Allen writes: "It cannot be said of this book that James Allen wrote it at any...
A Lady of Quality - Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Lady of Quality - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Set in late 1600's England, the story follows the life of a woman living an unconventional life. The loves of her life and all of its ups and downs are included. (Summary by Linda Andrus)...
Our Own Set - Ossip SCHUBIN
Our Own Set - Ossip SCHUBIN
- Author: Ossip SCHUBIN
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The Austrian nobility in Rome forms a very close circle, into which only those of high rank and wealth are admitted. They managed to get along with Cecil Sterzl, who, although not one of their own, is regarded as quite an amiable man. However, when...
Rachel Ray - Anthony Trollope
Rachel Ray - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The love that develops between Luke Rowan and Rachel Ray is not universally welcomed. Mrs. Tappitt- a rich, influential, and bad woman - wishes him to marry one of her own daughters, while Rachel's mother and older sister are not sure he is worthy...
The Princess Passes - Charles Norris WILLIAMSON
The Princess Passes - Charles Norris WILLIAMSON
- Author: Charles Norris WILLIAMSON
- Genre: Romance
An American heiress nicknamed the Manitou Princess (after her daddy's richest silver mine) is devastated to find that her fiancé only loves her money, so she does what anyone might do: she bolts for Europe, dons male attire and sets out on a walking...
