Romance

Indian Summer

by William Dean Howells Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.8
Set in Florence's Anglo-American colony in the late 19th century, this is a romantic story of a middle-aged man, returning to the scene of h…

Persuasion

by Jane Austen Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted a proposal of marri…

The Black Moth

by Georgette Heyer Read by Sibella Denton 4.5
The year is 1752. Devil, the Duke of Andover, and highwayman Jack, the Earl of Wyncham are at odds over a country squire's beautiful daughte…

Under the Greenwood Tree

by Thomas Hardy Read by Rachel Lintern 4.4
This novel is subtitled The Mellstock Quire, A Rural Painting of the Dutch School. The Quire is the group of musicians who accompany the hym…

Lord Tony's Wife

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Another adventure of the Scarlet pimpernel! As the title suggests, it follows the story of Lord Tony and his wife, Yvonne. It is full of sus…

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

by John Fox, Jr. Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1908 romance novel/western novel written by John Fox, Jr.. The novel became Fox's most successful, and w…

Come Rack! Come Rope!

by Robert Hugh Benson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Come Rack! Come Rope! is a historical novel by the English priest and writer Robert Hugh Benson, a convert to Catholicism from Anglicanism. …

A Spinner in the Sun

by Myrtle Reed Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Myrtle Reed may always be depended upon to write a story in which poetry, charm, tenderness and humor are combined into a clever and enterta…

The Rose Garden Husband

by Margaret Widdemer Read by Mary Herndon Bell 4.3
This novel was written by Margaret Widdemer, who won the Pulitzer prize for her collection of poetry in 1919. Phyllis is a 25-years-old chi…

Colonel Quaritch, V.C.

by H. Rider Haggard Read by Esther 4.7
This is not your typical H. Rider Haggard adventure book yet it is full of mystery and intrigue including a coerced marriage, bigotry, adult…

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) 4.5
Set in 1925, this is a novel of the Jazz Age; of ambition, of the careless rich, of wild parties and flappers and bootleg booze; and the eff…

The Monk

by Matthew Lewis Read by James K. White 4.5
Matthew Gregory Lewis's The Monk: A Romance is a story of frustrated and unrequited desire between mentor and pupil mixed with elements of t…

The Quest of the Silver Fleece

by W. E. B. Du Bois Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The Quest of the Silver Fleece is a story of romance, race, economics and politics set around the 1900s. Here, a traditionally educated boy …

Mrs. Armytage

by Catherine Grace Frances Gore Read by Helen Taylor 4.5
Mrs Armytage is a widowed landowner, spirited, independent and very much used to having her own way and exercising total dominance over her …

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Northanger Abbey follows seventeen-year-old Gothic novel aficionado Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Ba…

A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian era England. S…

St. George and St. Michael

by George MacDonald Read by Jordan 4.6
’St. George and St. Michael’ is a little-known historical romance telling the story of a young couple who find themselves on opposing sides …

The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d…

Nina Balatka

by Anthony Trollope Read by Anthony Ogus 4.5
Nina Balatka is a poignant romance set against the backdrop of 19th-century Prague, where the lives of a Catholic woman and a Jewish man int…

Marion Fay

by Anthony Trollope Read by Arnold 4.4
Marion Fay (1882) offers a pair of romances, each involving a match between one titled personage and one commoner. The misalliances lead to …

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