Romance
The Presence of Love
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the R…
Weird Tales, Volume 2
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E. T. A. Hoffmann
Paradoxically, it is variety that unites the tales you are about to read. They take place in widely separated countries and historical perio…
Madame Chrysantheme
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Pierre Loti
Pierre Loti (a nom de plume) was for many years an officer in the French Navy, giving him the opportunity to sample and analyze different na…
Cymbeline (Version 2)
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William Shakespeare
Cymbeline is one of the last plays Shakespeare wrote, classified by scholars as a late romance or comedy. It's famous for featuring a highly…
The House Opposite
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Elizabeth Kent
While trying to escape the heat, a doctor witnesses some strange behavior of his neighbors. Suddenly, everyone and no one become suspects in…
Cousin Maude
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Mary Jane Holmes
When Matilda's husband James dies, she marries rich Dr. Kennedy thinking he will provide a good home for her daughter Maude. However, the do…
Paul and Virginia
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Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre
Paul and Virginia was first published in 1787. The novel's title characters are very good friends since birth who fall in love, but sadly di…
Diana of the Crossways
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George Meredith
Inspired by the real life story of Caroline Norton, a friend of the author's, this book tells about a lively woman who is trapped in a miser…
Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes
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Ella Cheever Thayer
A telegraph operator meets a mysterious stranger 'on the wire'. Throw in the most clumsy gent in literature, a stern matron, an actress with…
The Love of Monsieur
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George Gibbs
A charming rogue, a stolen birthright, unrequited love, mutiny on the high seas, with a backdrop of 17th century England and the Spanish Mai…
According to the Pattern
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Grace Livingston Hill
Miriam Winthrop doesn't know what to do when she realizes her beloved husband Claude, the father of her children, has become infatuated with…
The Charwoman's Shadow
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Lord Dunsany
Delightfully imaginative, somewhat similar to Dunsany's blockbuster fantasy novel, The King Of Elfland's Daughter (and published just two ye…
Love's Young Dream
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Thomas Moore
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Love's Young Dream by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 26th, 201…
Irene Iddesleigh
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Amanda Mckittrick Ros
Amanda McKittrick Ros, a Northern Irish writer, did for the novel what William McGonagall did for poetry and Florence Foster Jenkins for the…
The Forest
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Ben Jonson
The Forest is a short collection of Ben Jonson's poetry. This collection of fifteen poems first appeared in the 1616 first folio of his coll…
The Way of an Eagle
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Ethel M. Dell
Muriel Roscoe has come to India to live with her father, a general. When the fort where they are staying comes under attack, General Roscoe …
Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacie
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Thomas Lodge
This novel, which Shakespeare adapted in his pastoral comedy As You Like It, is the archetypal pastoral adventure. Two young persons of high…
Mary Anerley
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Richard Doddridge Blackmore
It is 1801, in the wild and rugged country that is northern England. A local Squire has died but his manor, Scargate Hall, is left to two si…
Passionate Shepherd to His Love (version 2)
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Christopher Marlowe
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe. This was the Fortnightly Poetry p…
The Wish
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Abraham Cowley
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Wish by Abraham Cowley. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 24, 2013. Ab…