Romance audiobooks page 12
Miss Grantley's Girls, and the Stories She Told Them
The author Thomas Archer lived 1830 – 1893; he wrote several juvenile stories, and this book: Miss Grantley’s Girls – And the Stories She Told Them, was published in 1886. It is a book in 7 chapters. Miss Grantley is a teacher and works as a governess, and she after some coaxing tells somewhat romantic stories to “her” girls. In the first chapter it says: “There was nothing romantic in Miss Grantley’s appearance, and yet she was the sort of person that you could not help looking at again and again if you once saw her. . . We found out too that she could tell stories of her own; and now and then we used to persuade her to ’spin a yarn,’ as Bella Dornton, whose father had been a n...
Dombey en Zoon
De trotse Dombey, eigenaar van het handelskantoor 'Dombey en zoon', heeft zich als doel in zijn leven gesteld zich in zijn bedrijf te laten opvolgen door zijn zoon. Pas nadat hij zijn zoon, zijn geld, zijn vrouw, zijn tweede vrouw en zijn bedrijf is kwijtgeraakt ontdekt hij wat belangrijk in het leven is. Een roman over trots en vrouwenemancipatie. (Samenvatting door Marcel Coenders)
隣の嫁 (Tonari no Yome)
農家の次男である省作は、最近、家で農作業をするようになった。その為、稲刈りなども、他の者と較べて遅い。隣家と共同で稲刈りをした時、隣家の嫁である「おとよ」さんが、助けてくれた。「おとよ」さんは、仲人に欺かれた形で、嫁に着たが、隣りの、省作に段々と引かれていく。 省作も「おとよ」さんのやさしさに、引かれ、 ２人の間には、恋愛感情が芽生えてくる。
This is a love story between a farmer's son & his neighbor's wife. The scene starts at a rice reaping day. They reap rice side by side.
This is a love story between a farmer's son & his neighbor's wife. The scene starts at a rice reaping day. They reap rice side by side.
Adeline Mowbray
Everybody makes mistakes, and everything has a price. This novel describes, according to it's name, the life of Adeline Mowbray, full of everything: sorrow, happiness, falsehood, truth, kindness, and mistakes. This novel is an exploration of the human heart. Be prepaired for a strong and enjoyable read.
Sybil, or the Two Nations
Sybil is one of the most prominent political novels of the mid-nineteenth century, taking as its subject the "condition of England" question. That phrase was first used by Thomas Carlyle in an essay of 1839 on Chartism, a working-class protest movement that plays a prominent role in this novel. The two nations are the rich and the poor, and the increasing gulf between them, and their condition also inspired such writers as Charles Dickens and Mrs. Gaskell, among others (one of whom, Friederich Engels, was the disciple of Karl Marx, and in his The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 described the appalling effects of the industrial revolution a year before Sybil appeared).
The Girl from Montana
Young Elizabeth, left orphaned by an evildoer who murders her last brother, flees Montana on horseback to find her remaining relatives in the East. Her social and spiritual journey leads her through harrowing encounters, struggles between good and evil, romance and, ultimately, love and fortune. Classic Grace Livingston Hill. (Introduction by Gail Mattern)
Tysons
Another frank May Sinclair exploration of fin de siècle English love and sex, marriage and adultery, "The Tysons" is the story of the caddish Nevill Tyson and his beautiful but frivolous young wife Molly. Sinclair uses a different narrative voice than we hear in much of her fiction, a sort of witty Jane Austen archness as she dissects the characters of the provincial village Drayton Parva. As always, she demonstrates an intriguing mixture of Victorian prudishness and modern free-thinking, particularly in her rendering of the sexual escapades of her characters. The step-by-step fragmentation of the Tyson marriage seems predestined from the start, but the novel reveals, as Sinclair's novels...
Schloß Dürande
Frankreich am Vorabend der französischen Revolution. Der Jäger Renald beobachtet seine Schwester Gabriele bei einem Stelldichein mit dem Sohn des Grafen Dürande. Das Schlimmste ahnend schickt er sie zur Tante ins Kloster. Als der jungen Graf Hippolyt nach Paris abgereist ist, will er sie zurück holen, doch sie ist inzwischen verschwunden. Renald ist sicher, dass sie mit dem jungen Grafen durchgebrannt ist. Er geht nach Paris, um Hippolyt zur Rede zu stellen und seine Schwester zurückzuholen, doch der Graf leugnet jede Kenntnis von Gabrielens Verbleib.
Als der alte Graf wenig später stirbt, kehrt Hippolyt zum Schloß Dürande zurück. Das ganze Land ist inzwischen in Aufruhr. Auch Gabrie...
Als der alte Graf wenig später stirbt, kehrt Hippolyt zum Schloß Dürande zurück. Das ganze Land ist inzwischen in Aufruhr. Auch Gabrie...
Amelia (Vol. 1)
This is the first volume of a three volume novel. In this novel, Amelia marries William Booth against her mother's desires, and the two must move to London. Fielding explores the issues of married life such as infidelity and whether women's intelligence is equal to men's.
Angelina
Habiendo terminado sus estudios secundarios, regresa Rodolfo a su ciudad natal, Villaverde, a encontrarse con la noticia que sus queridas tías se han empobrecido para proveerle esa educación. Las pobres ancianas, una enferma, han tenido solo a la dulce Angelina cuidándolas. De vuelta en la casa de su niñez, Rodolfo empieza a sentir cariño por la joven que ha cuidado tan bien a las ancianas que lo criaron. (Resumen por Karen Savage)
Having finished his secondary education, Rodolfo returns to his native city, Villaverde, to discover that his beloved aunts have impoverished themselves to provide him with that education. The poor ladies, one of them ill, have had only sweet Angelina to help...