Romance
The Past
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of The Past by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 20, 2011.Ell…
St. Elmo
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Augusta Jane Evans
Written in prose and full of references to religion and mythology, this book tells the love story between St. Elmo and Edna. He is cynical a…
The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax
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Harriet Parr
This is the coming of age story of Bessie Fairfax. A story about a girl who learns to see the world is it is and navigate in it. This is a v…
Thyrza
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George Gissing
Thyrza is a working class woman. Three men are in love with her. Even though she is engaged to a man of her class, who is very kind, she fal…
All That Glitters Is Not Gold
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John Maddison Morton
Fresh from the success of his phenomenally popular farce, “Box and Cox,” playwright James Madison Morton and his brother, Thomas, adapted a …
The Silver Wedding
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John Godfrey Saxe
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Silver Wedding by John Godfrey Saxe. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 12t…
The Despairing Lover
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William Walsh
LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 recordings of The Despairing Lover by William Walsh. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 11, …
Hernani
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Victor Hugo
First performed in 1830, this was once described as a play on which the "romantic school centered its hopes". The Classicists at t…
Women I'm Not Married To
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Franklin Pierce Adams
This poem, by Franklin P. Adams, is the sequel to/answer to Dorothy Parker's poem, Women I'm Not Married To, with a decidedly different but …
We Have Been Friends Together
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Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of We Have Been Friends Together by Caroline Norton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for…
Verses on a Young Lady
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Tobias Smollett
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Verses on a Young Lady Playing on a Harpsicord and Singing by Tobias Smollett. This was the W…
Song (Lowell version)
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James Russell Lowell
LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 recordings of Song by James Russell Lowell. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 1, 2011.James Russell…
The Cosmic Courtship
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Julian Hawthorne
Mary Faust, a brilliant scientist, has developed a machine that can allow the conscious human soul to explore the cosmos! Her promising youn…
What Dreams May Come
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Gertrude Atherton
For Harold Dartmouth and Weir Penrhyn, it's love at first sight; love, and an uncanny feeling of recognition which neither understand. Nor d…
The Indian Serenade
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Indian Serenade, by Percy Bysshe Shelley.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Sep…
The Day's Journey
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Netta Syrett
Netta Syrett was the niece of Grant Allen and a "new woman" in her own right. Educated at the University of Cambridge, she tried t…
Overruled
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George Bernard Shaw
This is a short one act comedy by Shaw which involves two couples on a cruise who both need help figuring out their relationships. (Summary …
When Woman Proposes
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Anne Warner
Does love at first sight exist? The heroine of this story, Natalie, seems to think so and is willing to move heaven and earth in order to m…
Can You Forgive Her? (Version 2)
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Anthony Trollope
Can You Forgive Her was published over 2 years in serial form. It follows the life story of three women involved with courtship and marriag…