Romance
Clarimonde (or La Morte Amoreuse)
Read by Joy Chan
Théophile Gautier
This is the story of a priest named Romauld, and his all-consuming love for the beautiful courtesan, Clarimonde. (Summary by Joy Chan)
Pierre and Luce
Read by Roger Melin
Romain Rolland
Pierre and Luce were an unlikely young pair who found themselves in the chaos of Paris during the war; Pierre, the shy, recently conscripted…
Alias Miss Sherlock
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Arthur Lewis Tubbs
Dick Brewster is implicated in a murder and comes to his aunt's farm to hide. His Aunt Sarah stands by him in his need and they all move to …
The Old Peabody Pew
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
A sweet, old fashioned Christmas romance set in an old New England meeting house. (Summary by Maria Therese)
Widowers' Houses
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George Bernard Shaw
This is one of three plays Shaw published as Plays Unpleasant in 1898; they were termed "unpleasant" because they were intended, n…
Remembrance
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Emily Brontë
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Remembrance by Emily Brontë. This was the fortnightly poetry project for June 14th, 2009…
A Dash for a Throne
Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Arthur W. Marchmont
The young Count von Rudloff got himself into so much trouble with the Imperial Family in Berlin, that he sees no other way out of it than to…
Monsieur Beaucaire
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Booth Tarkington
A madcap Frenchman posing as an ambassador's barber blackmails a dishonest duke to introduce him as a nobleman to a wealthy belle of Bath. S…
His Brother's Keeper
Read by Adele de Pignerolles
Charles Monroe Sheldon
Stuart Duncan arrives home from college to find the workers in his father's mine on the brink of a strike. Leading the strike is Stuart's bo…
Christy
Read by Michael Thomas Cunningham
Michael Thomas Cunningham
A journey tale about love, loss, and what it truly means to come home. Christy, a woman hardened by the streets and clinging to a life of…
The Castle Spectre
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Matthew Lewis
Written by Gothic writer Matthew Lewis, whose novel The Monk is one of the most enduring Gothic works from the eighteenth century, The Castl…
A Day of Fate
Read by LikeManyWaters
Edward P. Roe
A night editor at a New York paper escapes to the country to avoid a nervous breakdown. Providence lands him in the middle of a loving Quake…
Contending Forces
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, despite an impressive record of productivity and creativity as a novelist, playwright, short fiction writer, edit…
Modeste Mignon
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Honoré de Balzac
Modeste Mignon, a young provincial woman of romantic temperament, imagines herself to be in love with the famous Parisian poet Melchior de C…
A Cathedral Courtship
Read by Ric F
Kate Douglas Wiggin
An romantic comedy. A pretty young American girls tours English Cathedrals, with her very blue-blooded Aunt. Then boy meets girl. Boy chases…
A Daughter of the Land (version 2)
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Gene Stratton-Porter
A Daughter of the Land follows Kate Bates, one of sixteen children, as she takes the wings of morning to try for independence and the life s…
Weapons of Mystery
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Joseph Hocking
Justin Blake receives an invitation from his old school-fellow Tom Temple to join him and his family for the Christmas holidays in Yorkshire…
The Rebel Rose
Read by Deanna Bovee
Justin Mccarthy
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 fami…
Love Among the Artists
Read by Expatriate
George Bernard Shaw
Love Among the Artists was published in the United States in 1900 and in England in 1914, but it was written in 1881. In the ambience of chi…
Sleeping Fires
Read by Sharon Kilmer
Gertrude Atherton
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 yo…