Romance
Opening a Chestnut Burr
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Edward P. Roe
Walter Gregory is a gentleman whose health is broken down by the stress of Wall Street and the consequences of his fast lifestyle. Disillusi…
The Golden Lion of Granpere
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Anthony Trollope
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…
The Tysons
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May Sinclair
Another frank May Sinclair exploration of fin de siècle English love and sex, marriage and adultery, "The Tysons" is the st…
Trapping A Duchess
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Michele Bekemeyer
Set in the early 19th Century England, Trapping A Duchess tells the story of formerly affianced couple, whose marriage-to-be ended when Soph…
Almayer's Folly (version 2)
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Joseph Conrad
Almayer’s Folly is about a poor businessman who dreams of finding a hidden gold mine and becoming very wealthy. Kaspar Almayer is a white Eu…
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 3
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Samuel Richardson
Clarissa Harlowe, is the tragic heroine of this story, she is a beautiful and virtuous young lady whose family has become wealthy only recen…
The Minister's Wooing
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe is today best known for her classic novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. However, that book was certainly not her only remarkable …
Love Letter Collection 2008
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Various
LibriVox readers have cast their nets wide to create this small collection of letters and poems, from fiction and from life, from heart to h…
Tempest and Sunshine
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Mary Jane Holmes
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…
The Vicar of Wrexhill
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Frances Milton Trollope
A villainous vicar insinuates himself into the life of a wealthy but foolish widow, ruining the fortunes and happiness of her three children…
The Flirt
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Booth Tarkington
Laura and Cora Madison and their younger brother Hedrick live with their parents in a Midwestern American town that is fairly bursting with …
The Sea-Witch
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Maturin Murray Ballou
Maturin Murray Ballou was the author of dozens of books, chiefly centered around his extensive sea travel. He was deputy navy-agent in the B…
Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion
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Lyndon Orr
"Famous Affinities of History" is a book of passion-filled accounts of the most famous love affairs of history. The stories of Cle…
The Story of Gösta Berling
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Selma Lagerlöf
"The Story of Gösta Berling" was published in Sweden in 1894 and immediately brought its author into prominence.The tales are…
Don Juan, Cantos 13 - 16
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George Gordon, Lord Byron
These are the last four Cantos of his mock epic that Byron completed in the year before his death at the age of 36 in Messolonghi, Greece, w…
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, …
The Lonely Lady of Grosvenor Square
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Mrs. Henry De La Pasture
Elizabeth de la Pasture, the author of this work, is the mother of the more well known E. M. Delafield- author of Diary Of A Provincial Lady…
The Rover (Part One)
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Aphra Behn
The Rover, or The Banish'd Cavaliers, is a play in two parts written by the English author Aphra Behn. The first part features multiple plot…
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…