Romance
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Read by Nicole Lee
Sir Philip Sidney
Arcadia is a prose work by Sir Philip Sidney, a classic of the Renaissance pastoral and a work of high romance, a fleeting vision of a lost …
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless
Read by Michele Eaton
Eliza Haywood
This has been said to be the first female development novel in English. Betsy leaves her emotionally and financially abusive husband Munden …
Black Oxen
Read by Lynne T
Gertrude Atherton
Lee Clavering, a young playwright falls in love with an Austrian countess, not noticing the adoring glances from the outgoing flapper, Janet…
The Place Beyond The Winds
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Harriet Theresa Comstock
Priscilla Glenn lives in Kenmore, a place which the Canadian Indians call "the in-place, the place beyond the winds". There are so…
Marietta
Read by Michele Fry
Francis Marion Crawford
This swash-buckling, romantic story of Zorzi Ballarin and Angelo Beroviero, master glass-blowers of Murano, Italy in the 1500's, is not enti…
Mrs. Dymond
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Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie
Susanna Holcombe, a very sensitive and free spirited young lady, tries to fit in to society. But it is very hard for a Victorian woman to ca…
Aucassin and Nicolette
Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
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Aucassin and Nicolette is a medieval romance written in a combination of prose and verse called a “song-story.” Created probably in the earl…
A Bird in a Gilded Cage
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Arthur J. Lamb
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of A Bird in a Gilded Cage by Arthur J. Lamb. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 2, …
Throckmorton
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Molly Elliot Seawell
This is a novel about the lives of the members of the Temple family and their connections in Tidewater, Virginia, in the Reconstruction era.…
The Mother's Recompense
Read by Anne Fletcher
Edith Wharton
Kate Cephane, now living in self-imposed exile in France, left her three-year-old daughter Anne behind when she fled her impossibly unhappy …
The Convict
Read by Lynne T
George Payne Rainsford James
As young Lord Hadley and his companion Edward Dudley travel along a dark, coastal road, they encounter a young girl pinioned by a fallen wal…
The Beauty and the Monster
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Stéphanie-Félicité De Genlis
A French theatrical adaptation of the famous fairy tale, The Beauty and the Monster is a drama of three characters - Beauty (Sabina), the Be…
The Men of Zanzibar
Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Richard Harding Davis
This is the story of Hemingway, who, after a hunting trip in Uganda, settles in Zanzibar for a while to live among the English-speaking expa…
Miss Grantley's Girls
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
Thomas Archer
The author Thomas Archer lived 1830 – 1893; he wrote several juvenile stories, and this book: Miss Grantley’s Girls – And the Stories She To…
The Dream
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John Donne
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Dream by John Donne. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 17, 2011.John Donne…
Three Weeks
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Elinor Glyn
Three weeks was Elinor Glyn's most popular and most scandalous book, published in 1907, and made into an even more scandalous movie in 1914.…
Henrietta Temple
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Benjamin Disraeli
The Armine family, in particular the young Ferdinand Armine, is in great financial difficulties. Ferdinand's grandfather has burdened the fa…
People Like That
Read by Neeru Iyer
Kate Langley Bosher
A single woman from a family that is well-off, buys a house at a place that is looked down upon and disapproved by her family and friends al…
Amelia
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Henry Fielding
The second volume of Amelia. - Summary by Libby Gohn
Alexander's Bridge
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Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather
Bartley Alexander is a construction engineer and world-renowned builder of bridges going through what's known today (but not in 1912) as a m…