Romance

An Englishwoman's Love-Letters

Read by Esther


Laurence Housman


It need hardly be said that the woman by whom these letter were written had no thought that they would be read by anyone but the person to w…

Abandoned

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William Clark Russell


We meet Miss Lucretia Lane as she is dressing for her marriage to Captain Francis Reynolds of the British Merchant Service. Though he loves …

The Genius

Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)


Theodore Dreiser


"The only figure of literary repute who ever rated The "Genius" as first among the novels of Theodore Dreiser was Theodore Dr…

Red Diamonds

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Justin Mccarthy


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 e…

Romantic Poetry Collection 001

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Various


A collection of romantic poems for St Valentine's day.

The Woodlanders

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Thomas Hardy


The story takes place in a small woodland village called Little Hintock, and concerns the efforts of an honest woodsman, Giles Winterborne, …

And So They Were Married

Read by Michele Eaton


Florence Morse Kingsley


This is the story of Elizabeth North, a young woman who becomes engaged and with the aid of a social climbing friend begins to plan her wedd…

The Dragon of Wantley

Read by D. A. Frank


Owen Wister


The "true" story of the Wantley Dragon. Set at Christmas time, it is a tale of a Baron, his daughter, a brave knight, True Love, a…

An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (Dramatic Reading)

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Henry Fielding


An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, or simply Shamela, as it is more commonly known, is a satirical novel written by Henry Fiel…

The British Barbarians

Read by Ruth Golding


Grant Allen


After Civil Servant Philip Christy crosses paths with the mysterious Bertram Ingledew in the respectable suburb of Brackenhurst, Philip and …

The Antiquary

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Andrew Lang


Illegitimacy, false identity, and bankruptcy are the major elements of Sir Walter Scott's 1816 novel, The Antiquary. Set in the period of th…

Doom Castle

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Neil Munro


Doom Castle is the story of young Count Victor's journey to Scotland after the Jacobite Rebellion, searching for a traitor to the Jacobite c…

A Happy Boy

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Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson


"A Happy Boy" was written in 1859 and 1860. It is, in my estimation, Bjørnson's best story of peasant life. In it the aut…

The Tyranny of Weakness

Read by Roger Melin


Charles Neville Buck


Torn between her love for her aging father, a minister steeped in the puritanical values of old New England, and the young Virginian who was…

Revelations of a Wife

Read by Maire Rhode


Adele Garrison


Adele Garrison was the nom de plume of Nana Springer White, an American writer. Her career included time as a schoolteacher in Milwaukee. Sh…

Appaloosa Summer

Read by Tudor Robins


Tudor Robins


Sixteen-year-old Meg Traherne has never known loss. Until the beautiful, talented horse she trained herself, drops dead underneath her in th…

Life and Death of Harriett Frean

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May Sinclair


Harriett Frean is a well-to-do, unmarried woman living a life of meaningless dependency, boredom, and unproductivity as she patiently cares …

Song (Poe version)

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Edgar Allan Poe


LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Song by Edgar Allan Poe. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 10, 2011.Edgar Allan Poe…

This Is the End

Read by Peter Eastman


Stella Benson


Some books have plots that drive relentlessly toward a conclusion. Others, like "This Is The End", just meander. It is the story o…

The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 1

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Eliza Haywood


The flirtations of a rich young maiden, Miss Betsy Thoughtless with several suitors, as she alienates the right man by refusing to take the …

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