Category Archives: Romance
Mary Marie
Author(s): Eleanor H. Porter A charming ‘coming of age’ story about a young girl, Mary...
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man
Author(s): Sinclair Lewis “At thirty-four Mr. Wrenn was the sales-entry clerk of the Souvenir Company....
Maria Chapdelaine
Author(s): Louis Hémon Maria Chapdelaine is one of the most famous French Canadian novels. It...
Our Own Set
Author(s): Ossip Schubin The Austrian nobility in Rome forms a very close circle, into which...
Personal Anthology of Shakespeare
Author(s): William Shakespeare This personal anthology is my choice of speeches from Shakespeare that I...
Mummer’s Wife
Author(s): George Moore Kate is a dress maker in the north of England who always...
Poor Miss Finch
Author(s): Wilkie Collins “Poor Miss Finch.” That is what everyone calls the courageous protagonist of...
Northanger Abbey (version 2)
Jane Austen’s coming-of-age satire turns a sharp, affectionate lens on the absurdities of popular fiction...
Petticoat Government, Volume 2
Author(s): Frances Milton Trollope The further adventures of young Judith Maitland in the clerical close...
Madame de Treymes
Navigating the entrenched traditions of Old World European aristocracy required far more than honorable intentions;...
Persuasion (version 5)
Second chances in love rarely come wrapped in the quiet dignity and understated heartache that...
Pride and Prejudice (version 6, dramatic reading)
Author(s): Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in...
One Thing Needful
When aristocrats offer moralizing rhetoric to a starving working class desperate for basic sustenance, the...
Persuasion (version 4)
Author(s): Jane Austen Several years before the events of the novel, Anne Elliott fell in...
Monsieur Beaucaire
Author(s): Booth Tarkington A madcap Frenchman posing as an ambassador’s barber blackmails a dishonest duke...
Persuasion (version 7)
Author(s): Jane Austen Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of 27 years, whose family is moving...
Misérables, Volume 5
Author(s): Victor Hugo This is book 5 of 5.An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a...
Rough Justice
Author(s): Mary Elizabeth Braddon Who murdered Lisa Rainer? Is it her former lover who went...
Miss Billy’s Decision
Author(s): Eleanor H. Porter When Miss Billy closed, Miss Billy and Bertram were happily engaged....
Nobody
Author(s): Susan Warner There are many romantic tales about a handsome and rich man falling...
Marcia Schuyler (version 2)
Author(s): Grace Livingston Hill A compelling love triangle. Marcia is young & sweet. Her older...
Philomène’s Marriages
Author(s): Henry Gréville ‘Philomène’s Marriages’ is a story of French life, located in Normandy, and...
Manon Lescaut
Author(s): Abbé Prévost Published in 1731, Manon Lescaut (on which the Puccini opera is based)...
Red Diamonds
Author(s): Justin McCarthy In the South African wilderness, six men got together to mine for...
Master of the Vineyard
Inherited property often carries far more emotional weight than financial value, transforming what should be...
Room with a View
Author(s): E. M. Forster When Lucy Honeychurch travels to Italy with her cousin, she meets...
Miss Crespigny
Author(s): Frances Hodgson Burnett This is a less known, but not less beautiful, novel by...
Old Friends And New Fancies
Author(s): Sybil G. Brinton Generally acknowledged to be the first sequel to the work of...
O Pioneers! (version 2)
Author(s): Willa Sibert Cather O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of...
Mary Anerley
Set against the storm-swept cliffs of East Yorkshire during the height of the Napoleonic Wars,...