Romance
Venus and Adonis (dramatic reading)
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William Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis is Shakespeare's narrative poem about the love of the goddess Venus for the mortal youth Adonis, dedicated partly to his pa…
When a Man Marries
Read by Sharon Kilmer
Mary Roberts Rinehart
A divorced playboy hosts a dinner party complete with a stand in wife to placate his aunt who financially supports him. When his chef is hos…
John Marchmont's Legacy
Read by Cate Barratt
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Like Wuthering Heights, the center of this story is a dramatic love triangle, the setting is a huge English manor. Olivia Marchmont has alwa…
The Return of the Soldier
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Rebecca West
In 1916 on an isolated country estate just outside London, Captain Chris Baldry, a shell-shocked captain suffering from amnesia, makes a bit…
Poor Miss Finch
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Wilkie Collins
“Poor Miss Finch.” That is what everyone calls the courageous protagonist of this book. In other words, “poor thing, she’s blind, isn’t it a…
Mary Marie
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Eleanor H. Porter
A charming 'coming of age' story about a young girl, Mary Marie, whose young life is thrown into turmoil as her parents divorce. As she lead…
A Room with a View (version 3 dramatic reading)
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E. M. Forster
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…
Pride and Prejudice: A Play
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Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, a comedy of manners and marriage, is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels. In this dramatic adaption by Mary Keith M…
Fenton's Quest
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
This story revolves around Gilbert Fenton, a very talented middle class businessman from London, who falls in love with a beautiful country …
Flower of the North
Read by Roger Melin
James Oliver Curwood
Flower of the North finds Philip Whittemore on an adventure which takes him up the Churchill River of northern Canada to a land which he tho…
The Enchanted April
Read by Diana Kiesners
Elizabeth Von Arnim
It’s a dreary February in post-World War I London when Mrs. Wilkins spots an advertisement in The Times for a small Italian castle for rent …
First Love
Read by Martin Geeson
Ivan Turgenev
The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The "boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her" story is universal but not, …
Eugene Onéguine
Read by MaryAnn
Alexander Pushkin
Eugene Oneguine is a classic of Russian literature, and its eponymous protagonist has served as the model for a number of Russian literary h…
Under the Greenwood Tree
Read by Rachel Lintern
Thomas Hardy
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…
Marcia Schuyler (version 2)
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Grace Livingston Hill
A compelling love triangle. Marcia is young & sweet. Her older sister Kate is vain & selfish. Marcia deeply admires the man that Kat…
The Big Blue Soldier
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Grace Livingston Hill
Back from the Great War, a penniless and disillusioned young soldier finds himself in the home of Miss Marilla Chadwick, a sweet old lady wh…
The Princess
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Princess is a serio-comic blank verse narrative poem, written by Alfred Tennyson, published in 1847. The poem tells the story of an hero…
The Golden Calf
Read by Tara Dow
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A late 19th Century sensation novel following the young life of Ida Palliser as she searches for fortune and love within England's Gentry Cl…
The Quest of the Silver Fleece
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W. E. B. Du Bois
The Quest of the Silver Fleece is a story of romance, race, economics and politics set around the 1900s. Here, a traditionally educated boy …
The Valley of the Giants
Read by Roger Melin
Peter B. Kyne
The man was John Cardigan; in that lonely, hostile land he was the first pioneer. This is the tale of Cardigan and Cardigan's son, for in hi…