Romance
Miss Billy's Decision
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Eleanor H. Porter
When Miss Billy closed, Miss Billy and Bertram were happily engaged. In this first sequel to Miss Billy will the path to wedded bliss run sm…
Mary Marston
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George MacDonald
Written at the height of George MacDonald's literary career, the story centers around the life of a simple merchant's daughter. Mary Marston…
The Cricket on the Hearth (Version 2)
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Charles Dickens
The tale of John Peerybingle, the good-hearted carrier, and his young wife Mary ('Dot'), interwoven with the story of poor toymaker Caleb Pl…
The Silent Barrier
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Louis Tracy
Charles K. Spencer is a well-to-do young American mining engineer. Drinking his water in a hotel in London one day, he overhears a conversat…
The Mayor's Wife
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Anna Katharine Green
Miss Saunders is out for an adventure. One, which is full of secrets, hints, and half-lies. One, which will require all of her wits. She is …
Heart of the World
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H. Rider Haggard
H. Rider Haggard wrote Heart of the World in 1895 and it tells of the search for a secret and hidden Mayan civilization living in a long los…
Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress
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Frances Burney
The plot of Cecilia revolves around the heroine, Cecilia Beverley, whose inheritance from her uncle comes with the stipulation that she find…
An Unwilling Guest
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Grace Livingston Hill
A young society woman travels to the country to visit her aunt, only to end up as the unwilling guest of a neighboring family. The daughter …
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery (L.M. Montgomery) was a prolific Canadian writer of books and short stories for children and adults during the first ha…
He Fell in Love with His Wife
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Edward P. Roe
James desperately needs someone to help him keep his farm going, but has failure after colossal failure finding a good housekeeper. Alida ma…
The Road to Understanding
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Eleanor H. Porter
"If Burke Denby had not been given all the frosted cakes and toy shotguns he wanted at the age of ten, it might not have been so diffic…
Madame de Treymes
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Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton's 1907 novella explores the milieu of Americans living abroad in Paris. New Yorker John Durham travels to Paris to woo an old…
The Witness
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Grace Livingston Hill
Paul Cortland seems to have it all as a popular, successful athlete and college student. Tragedy leads him to find peace through the faith …
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
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Daniel Defoe
Defoe wrote this novel after his work as a journalist and pamphleteer. By 1722, Defoe had become recognized as a novelist, with the success …
A Daughter of the Land
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Gene Stratton-Porter
Independent Kate Bates resents the fact that, as the youngest of a large family, she is expected to stay at home and help her parents while …
The Lovels of Arden
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The novel traces the return of a young Englishwoman from several years of schooling abroad, to find that her life will not take up where she…
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907-1908
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fa…
The Return of Alfred
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Herbert George Jenkins
The hero of the book is at a loose end, weary and bored of his old life after returning from the Great War. After an argument with his uncle…
Be Kind When You Can
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Eliza Cook
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Be Kind When You Can by Eliza Cook. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 30, 2011.E…
Dawn of the Morning
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Grace Livingston Hill
Fresh from school, mistreated and neglected by her father and stepmother, sixteen-year-old Dawn consents to marry a friend of her father's w…