Romance
The Story of Gösta Berling
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
Selma Lagerlöf
"The Story of Gösta Berling" was published in Sweden in 1894 and immediately brought its author into prominence.The tales are…
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 Day Will Come
Read by Celine Major
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
It is an ideal honeymoon of an ideal couple. But somehow, the wife cannot stop dreaming that her husband would be shot and killed. He dismis…
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…
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 …
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…
Red Diamonds
Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
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…
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 …
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 Antiquary
Read by skoval
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…
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…
A Happy Boy
Read by MaryAnn
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…
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…
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 …
Precious Bane
Read by NoelBadrian
Mary Webb
Published in 1924, Precious Bane is a novel by Mary Webb (1881 - 1927) which touches on ambition, prejudice and hatred but also on the power…