Romance
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, …
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
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…
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…
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…
Romantic Poetry Collection 001
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Various
A collection of romantic poems for St Valentine's day.
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…
The Day Will Come
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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…
An Englishwoman's Love-Letters
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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…
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…
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 …
Mount Royal Volume I
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A classic Victorian sensation novel filled with romance, mystery, and murder with the emphasis on romance. -summary by Celine Major
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 …
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…
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…
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 Dragon of Wantley
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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…
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…