Romance - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 7
A Life's Morning - George Gissing
A Life's Morning - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: Romance
This is the story of a poor young lady Emily Hood who while working as a governess falls in love with Wilfrid Athel the son of her employer. They become engaged, however things do not run smoothly after a visit home to her parents and Emily has to...
Undine - Friedrich de la Motte FOUQUΓ
Undine - Friedrich de la Motte FOUQUΓ
- Author: Friedrich de la Motte FOUQUΓ
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction / Romance
Undine is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte FouquΓ© concerning Undine, a water spirit who marries a Knight named Huldbrand in order to gain a soul. It is an early German romance, which has been translated into English and other languages. The novel...
The Lovers - Emily Dickinson
The Lovers - Emily Dickinson
- Author: Emily Dickinson
- Genre: Poetry / Romance / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 recordings of The Lovers by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 27, 2012. The verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called "the Poetry of the...
The Man Who Ended War - Hollis GODFREY
The Man Who Ended War - Hollis GODFREY
- Author: Hollis GODFREY
- Genre: Romance / Science Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Jim Orrington, news reporter, is at the office when the Secretary of War brings in a letter--mostly likely a prank--that demands all the nations of the world to disarm in one year or have all their battleships destroyed. This letter, signed "The man...
The Heir of Redclyffe - Charlotte Mary Yonge
The Heir of Redclyffe - Charlotte Mary Yonge
- Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The Heir of Redclyffe (1853) was the first of Charlotte M. Yonge's bestselling romantic novels. Its religious tone derives from the High Church background of her family and from her friendship with a leading figure in the Oxford Movement, John...
Master of the Vineyard - Myrtle Reed
Master of the Vineyard - Myrtle Reed
- Author: Myrtle Reed
- Genre: Romance
"Why don't you sell the vineyard?" she asked, though her heart sank at the mere suggestion."Sell it? Why didn't the Ancient Mariner sell his albatross and take a nice little trip around the world on the proceeds? Mother would die of a broken heart...
The Silent Battle - George Gibbs
The Silent Battle - George Gibbs
- Author: George Gibbs
- Genre: Romance
This offering from George Gibbs, follows the developing romance between lawyer Tom Gallatin, trying to beat his alcoholism, and debutante Jane Loring. It begins with Tom getting lost while on a hunting trip in the Canadian wilderness, where he has...
The Place Beyond The Winds - Harriet Theresa COMSTOCK
The Place Beyond The Winds - Harriet Theresa COMSTOCK
- Author: Harriet Theresa COMSTOCK
- Genre: Romance
Priscilla Glenn lives in Kenmore, a place which the Canadian Indians call "the in-place, the place beyond the winds". There are so many traditions, so many things to be proud of, yet Priscilla is different. She dreams of living in the big city....
The Lion and the Unicorn - Richard Harding Davis
The Lion and the Unicorn - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
What if figures of animals had lives of their own? If the figures of a lion and a unicorn at the shop across the street could talk, what would they say about the little things in life that they see every day on the streets of London? This short...
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905-1906 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905-1906 - 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 Golden Silence - Charles Norris WILLIAMSON
The Golden Silence - Charles Norris WILLIAMSON
- Author: Charles Norris WILLIAMSON
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Romance
Trying to get away from an engagement he had got himself into more or less against his will, Stephen Knight travels to Algiers to visit his old friend Nevill. On the Journey there he meets the charming and beautiful Victoria. She is on her way to...
Lovers' Vows - Elizabeth INCHBALD
Lovers' Vows - Elizabeth INCHBALD
- Author: Elizabeth INCHBALD
- Genre: Plays / Romance
Lovers' Vows (1798), a play by Elizabeth Inchbald arguably best known now for having been featured in Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park (1814), is one of at least four adaptations of August von Kotzebue's Das Kind der Liebe (1780; literally "Child...
He Fell in Love with His Wife - Edward P. Roe
He Fell in Love with His Wife - Edward P. Roe
- Author: Edward P. Roe
- Genre: Romance
James desperately needs someone to help him keep his farm going, but has failure after colossal failure finding a good housekeeper. Alida marries a man only to find out he's already married. She's so undone when she finds out that she just wants to...
The Yellow Dove - George Gibbs
The Yellow Dove - George Gibbs
- Author: George Gibbs
- Genre: Romance / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
A World War 1 spy vs spy novel. Oh! And perhaps I should also mention, a bit of romance? "I am sorry,β he said coolly, "awfully sorry. As you know, I would have had things different. You may still doubt me when I say that what I have done is the...
Pearl Maiden - H. Rider Haggard
Pearl Maiden - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Romance / Christian Fiction
This is the story of Miriam, an orphan Christian woman living in Rome in the first century. She falls in love with a Roman officer, but knows that her Jewish childhood playmate loves her too- and will do anything in order to get her love in return....
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those...
The Crown Of Life - George Gissing
The Crown Of Life - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Romance
So what is the crown of life? Follow the journey of Piers and Irene as they attempt to discover. It is both a coming of age novel and love story at the same time, one which would bring delight to philosophers with many conversations for and against...
Beatrice - H. Rider Haggard
Beatrice - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Romance
Beatrice is a lonely twenty-two year old woman. After saving Geoffrey's life, they fall in love. However, Geoffrey is married. In addition, a local rich land owner wants to marry the beautiful Beatrice. This is a romance by the author of King...
That Unfortunate Marriage - Frances Eleanor TROLLOPE
That Unfortunate Marriage - Frances Eleanor TROLLOPE
- Author: Frances Eleanor TROLLOPE
- Genre: Romance / Satire
This is the funny, romantic, slightly tongue-in-cheek story of how little May Cheffington makes her way in the world despite being the sole surviving product of "that unfortunate marriage." - Summary by Angela Rowland...
Our Friend The Charlatan - George Gissing
Our Friend The Charlatan - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: Romance
Dice Lashmore will do everything he can in in his quest to become rich. The key is, of course, finding a rich wife. This book describes his numerous courtships of women. It also describes the moral decline of a man who has only one goal, and how...
The Game and the Candle - Eleanor M. INGRAM
The Game and the Candle - Eleanor M. INGRAM
- Author: Eleanor M. INGRAM
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
Faced with inherited debts, an estate to maintain, and no money to pay for either, brothers John and Robert Allard have a difficult decision to make. How much of their integrity are they willing to compromise in order to save their aunt and cousin...
Violet Osborne - Trilogy - Emily PONSONBY
Violet Osborne - Trilogy - Emily PONSONBY
- Author: Emily PONSONBY
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Romance
"This book is in turns funny and sad. Violet Osborne is a very beloved child with no financial problems. She is both beautiful and good, and of course she must be happy. Yet, as we learn, she is a manipulative and overbearing woman who would do...
Nobody - Susan Warner
Nobody - Susan Warner
- Author: Susan Warner
- Genre: Romance
There are many romantic tales about a handsome and rich man falling in love with a beautiful lower class woman over the objections of his family. Remember Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy? however, it takes more than a good woman to secure a...
Ester Ried - Pansy
Ester Ried - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Romance / Christian Fiction
Authored by Isabella M. Alden under the pen name "Pansy."Ester Ried's life is a dull monotony of toiling at her family's boardinghouse. She's overworked, jealous and cranky, a poor example of a Christian to her family and associates. She awakens to...
If Winter Comes - A. S. M. HUTCHINSON
If Winter Comes - A. S. M. HUTCHINSON
- Author: A. S. M. HUTCHINSON
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
If Winter Comes, was in many aspects ahead of its time, dealing with an unhappy marriage, eventual divorce, and an unwed mother who commits suicide. According to the New York Times, "If Winter Comes" was the best-selling book in the United States...
Liber Amoris - William Hazlitt
Liber Amoris - William Hazlitt
- Author: William Hazlitt
- Genre: Poetry / Romance
Liber Amoris is unlike anything Hazlitt wrote and probably like nothing you've come across before. On the face of it it tells the story of Hazlitt's infatuation with his landlords daughter. Hazlitt was middle aged and she young and pretty, a bit of...
The Rebel Rose - Justin McCarthy
The Rebel Rose - Justin McCarthy
- Author: Justin McCarthy
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Romance
The Rebel Rose is the story of Mary Stuart Beaton, a descendant of Mary Queen of Scots who has come to London in the hope of having her family claims legitimized. The Pretendress -- as she is called, finds herself caught up in the devices of her own...
Amelia (Vol. 2) - Henry Fielding
Amelia (Vol. 2) - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: Romance
The second volume of Amelia. - Summary by Libby Gohn...
A Midsummer Night's Dream (version 3) - William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream (version 3) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy / Romance
The play features three interlocking plots, connected by a celebration of the wedding of Theseus of Athens and the Amazon queen, Hippolyta, which is set simultaneously in the woodland and in the realm of Fairyland, under the light of the moon....
Rose in Bloom - Louisa May Alcott
Rose in Bloom - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance / Family
Opening several years after the close of "Eight Cousins", we find Rose coming home fresh from a voyage overseas, to find much changed about her. Now of a marriageable aged and heiress to a fortune, Rose finds joy,sorrow, and finally love await her...
Kate Bonnet - Frank R. Stockton
Kate Bonnet - Frank R. Stockton
- Author: Frank R. Stockton
- Genre: Romance
"She carried a fishing rod and line, and her name was Kate Bonnet. She was a bright-faced, quick-moving young person, and apparently did not expect to catch many fish, for she had no basket in which to carry away her finny prizes." It was the first...
The Talisman - Sir Walter Scott
The Talisman - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
The Talisman is a gripping tale set near the end of the Third Crusade. King Richard the Lionheart is grievously ill, and all around him the leaders from allied countries plot and scheme to gain personal power, putting the future of the crusade in...
The Duchess of Padua - Oscar Wilde
The Duchess of Padua - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Plays / Romance / Drama
Guido Ferranti, a young man, travels to Padua with his friend Ascanio after receiving a mysterious letter from a stranger, claiming to know the true secret of Guido's birth. His plan of revenge goes awry, however, when he falls in love with his...
Three Men and a Maid - P. G. Wodehouse
Three Men and a Maid - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
This book with two titles, Three Men and a Maid in the USA and The Girl on the Boat in the UK is a typical PG Wodehouse romantic comedy, involving, at various times: a disastrous talent quest, a lawyer with a revolver, a bulldog with a mind of his...
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia - Sir Philip Sidney
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia - Sir Philip Sidney
- Author: Sir Philip Sidney
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
Arcadia is a prose work by Sir Philip Sidney, a classic of the Renaissance pastoral and a work of high romance, a fleeting vision of a lost world of gallantry and adventure, representing an escape from the realities of politics in the Elizabethan...
A Chicago Princess - Robert BARR
A Chicago Princess - Robert BARR
- Author: Robert BARR
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
After working several years in foreign affairs, and after winning and then losing a fortune, Rupert Tremorne is stranded in Nagasaki, at the end of his wits and in some debt. His only chance is to take the post as private secretary to the...
Kept in the Dark - Anthony Trollope
Kept in the Dark - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Romance
Kept in the Dark is a novel by the 19th century English novelist Anthony Trollope. It was published in eight monthly installments in 1882, and also in book form in the same year. Cecilia Holt ends her engagement to Sir Francis Geraldine because of...
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Romance
Lucy Maud Montgomery (L.M. Montgomery) was a prolific Canadian writer of books and short stories for children and adults during the first half of the twentieth century. Her writings, frequently set in Prince Edward Island where she was born and grew...
The Broad Highway - John Jeffery FARNOL
The Broad Highway - John Jeffery FARNOL
- Author: John Jeffery FARNOL
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
Our hero, Peter Vibart, an Oxford graduate with no means of support but for 10 guineas he has inherited, sets out on a walking tour of the Kent countryside. Along the way, he meets many quaint and adoring characters as well as a few neβer-do-wells,...
The British Barbarians - Grant Allen
The British Barbarians - Grant Allen
- Author: Grant Allen
- Genre: Romance / Science Fiction
After Civil Servant Philip Christy crosses paths with the mysterious Bertram Ingledew in the respectable suburb of Brackenhurst, Philip and his sister Frida, married to the wealthy Scot Robert Monteith, become friends with the stranger. Bertram has...
