Romance

The Ladies' Paradise

by Émile Zola • Read by Mark Leder • 4★

This is the sequel to "Piping Hot!", so the eleventh volume in Zola's Rougon-Macquart Cycle. This is the story of Octave Mouret, …

La papallona

by Narcís Oller • Read by jpujolar • 5★

Seguint la vocació naturalista de l’escriptor, la novel·la emprèn una anàlisi del procés d’enamorament de…

Don Caesar de Bazan

by Philippe Dumanoir and Dumanoir • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 1★

This fast-paced, swashbuckling, romantic comedy is loosely based on characters from the 1838 play “Ruy Blas” by Victor Hugo. Dumnois and D’E…

Imre

by Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson • Read by Thomas A. Copeland

This 1906 novel, published one year after Freud's first articles on homosexuality, may well be the first gay novel with a happy ending. In s…

Joseph and His Friend

by Bayard Taylor • Read by Thomas A. Copeland

The protagonist in Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania, by Bayard Taylor, is an intelligent and educated young farmer who has led…

Don Sebastian; or, The House of the Braganza

by Anna Maria Porter • Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Don Sebastian is now king of Portugal, and, although exiled, looks forward to taking his seat on the throne. However, he is held captive by …

Sweet Clover

by Clara Louise Burnham • Read by E Tayaban • 3★

A romance set against the backdrop of the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. (Summary by E Tayaban)