Romance
The Demon of the Gibbet
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Fitz-James O'Brien
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Demon of the Gibbet by Fitz-James O'Brien. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Fe…
Cymbeline
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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…
Paul and Virginia
Read by Ellis Christoff
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…
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…
Madame Chrysantheme
Read by Peter Tucker
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…
The House Opposite
Read by Sharon Kilmer
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
Read by Celine Major
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…
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…
The Charwoman's Shadow
Read by Michele Fry
Lord Dunsany
Delightfully imaginative, somewhat similar to Dunsany's blockbuster fantasy novel, The King Of Elfland's Daughter (and published just two ye…
The Love of Monsieur
Read by Tony Oliva
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…
The Man Called X
Herbert Marshall
The Man Called X began in the summer of 1944, at the height of World War II, originally resembling an FBI program. However, it soon develope…
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
Read by Sheldon Greaves
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 …
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless
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Eliza Haywood
Betsy Thoughtless is about an intelligent and strong-willed woman who marries under pressure from the society in which she lives. Betsy lear…
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
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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 Winter's Tale
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William Shakespeare
The Winter's Tale—one of Shakespeare's final plays—tells the story of two neighboring kings, Leontes of Sicilia and Polixenes of Bohemia. Fr…
Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacie
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
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…