Romance
Much Ado About Nothing (version 2)
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William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing is generally considered one of Shakespeare’s best comedies, because it combines elements of robust hilarity with more…
Helen's Babies
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
John Habberton
In this hilarious novel, Harry Burton, a bachelor white-goods salesman, goes to take care of his sister Helen's two little boys for ten days…
The Duchess of Padua
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Oscar Wilde
Guido Ferranti, a young man, travels to Padua with his friend Ascanio after receiving a mysterious letter from a stranger, claiming to know …
Vixen
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
This is an exquisite and heartbreaking love story. Violet Tempest and Roderick Vawdrey, otherwise known to each other as Vixen and Rorie, ar…
The Yellow House
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E. Phillips Oppenheim
Vicar and his two daughters move to a small, quiet country village and soon learn that their neighbor in the yellow house holds secrets that…
The Female Quixote Vol. 1
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Charlotte Lennox
The novel formally inverts Don Quixote: as the don mistakes himself for the knightly hero of a Romance, so Arabella mistakes herself for the…
The Lone Wolf
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Louis Joseph Vance
The Lone Wolf is the first of eight books in a series featuring the jewel thief turned private detective Michael Lanyard. With his identity …
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
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John Fox, Jr.
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…
The Witness for the Defence
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
A. E. W. Mason
Part romance, part mystery, part courtroom and quasi-courtroom drama. Young love reignites itself after a hiatus of some years. Or does it? …
The Curse of Capistrano
Read by Barry Eads
Johnston McCulley and Johnston Mcculley
The Curse of Capistrano by Johnston McCulley is the first work to feature the fictional character Zorro (zorro is the Spanish word for fox).…
Julia Ried
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Pansy
Authored by Isabella M. Alden under the pen name "Pansy." Sequel to "Ester Ried." Julia Ried must take a job as a bookke…
Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor
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Richard Doddridge Blackmore
"If anybody cares to read a simple tale told simply" ... thus opens Lorna Doone, one of the best love stories ever written. The no…
Ann Veronica
Read by Joy Chan
H. G. Wells
Ann Veronica was a controversial book detailing the development of a naive school girl into a "New Woman". When it was published, …
The Black Moth
Read by Sibella Denton
Georgette Heyer
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…
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
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Samuel Johnson
In this enchanting fable (subtitled The Choice of Life), Rasselas and his retinue burrow their way out of the totalitarian paradise of the H…
Rachel Ray
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Anthony Trollope
The love that develops between Luke Rowan and Rachel Ray is not universally welcomed. Mrs. Tappitt- a rich, influential, and bad woman - wis…
That Lass o' Lowrie's
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett was born and grew up in Manchester, England, and emigrated to the United States with her family at the age of 16. Fo…
The Battle of Life
Read by Mark F. Smith
Charles Dickens
While "The Battle of Life" is one of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books - his annual release of a story just before Christmas - this…
The Blue Castle
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Valancy Stirling, plain, twenty nine, and as yet unsought, is given a year to live by a great heart specialist. This is the story of her yea…
God's Country—And the Woman
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James Oliver Curwood
James Curwood wrote many adventures of the far north. By 1909 he had saved enough money to travel to the Canadian northwest, a trip that pro…