Published 1800 -1900
Fairy Fingers
Read by Kelly S. Taylor
Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
Madelaine is the poor cousin of the aristocratic de Gramont family in France of the 1850’s. She is cherished by the beautiful young Bertha a…
Beyond These Voices
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
This novel tells the fictional life story of Veera Davis. The daughter of a poet and a poor noble woman, who is left in the care of her gran…
The Mysteries of London Vol. II
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George W. M. Reynolds
The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England, published in four volumes. This is the second volume. Initially s…
Ormond
Read by Bruce Pirie
Maria Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworth was one of the most popular writers of her time, a sharp and witty observer of society manners, and a favorite author for Ja…
The Fate of Fenella
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Various
One book, twenty-four authors ... Fenella is the beautiful, girlish and headstrong heroine of a sensational Victorian novel which continuall…
A Day of Fate
Read by LikeManyWaters
Edward P. Roe
A night editor at a New York paper escapes to the country to avoid a nervous breakdown. Providence lands him in the middle of a loving Quake…
The Macdermots of Ballycloran
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Anthony Trollope
This is the story of the Macdermots of Ballycloran the story is about the tragic demise of a landowning family. Larry Macdermot lives in a d…
One Life, One Love
Read by Celine Major
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Clara and Robert Hatrell lead an ideal life with their young daughter Daisy in a beautiful old fashioned cottage on the banks of the Thames.…
Away in the Wilderness
Read by Roger Melin
R. M. Ballantyne
Jasper Derry was on a mission. He had left the northern wilderness a few years earlier when he had worked for the Hudson's Bay Company, but …
The Egoist
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George Meredith
The Egoist is a tragi-comical novel by George Meredith published in 1879. The novel recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patte…
Dombey and Son (version 2)
Read by Cynthia Lyons (1946-2011)
Charles Dickens
Dombey and Son is a novel by the Victorian author Charles Dickens. The story concerns Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company…
Alice Dugdale
Read by Anthony Ogus
Anthony Trollope
An ordinary village girl's plans for the future with her long-standing beau are threatened when he is seen to be an attractive prospect by a…
The Cloak (Version 2)
Read by Phil Chenevert
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
The Cloak or the Overcoat as in some translations, is a story by Ukrainian-born Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story a…
Dodo: A Detail of the Day
Read by Anna Simon
E. F. Benson
Fashionably controversial bestseller at the time of appearance (1893), portraying London "society" in the Fin de Siècle. Do…
A Daughter Of The Vine
Read by Lynne T
Gertrude Atherton
We are introduced to Englishman Dudley Thorpe on the evening of his arrival in California. At a ball, he is introduced to several belles, in…
The Pretty Sister Of José
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Pepita would rather become a witch than a wife. She's seen too many women, including her mother, wither away at their husband's hands. Popul…
Gobseck
Read by James E. Carson
Honoré de Balzac
Part of the La Comedie Humane and something of a sequence to Balzac's Father Goriot, the short book's title is the name of the pawn broker/m…
Wanted - A Pedigree
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Martha Finley
Nina Clemmens was adopted as a baby. When her parents die, she goes to live with her religious aunt, who mistreats her because of her temper…
The Father
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August Strindberg
The Father is a naturalistic drama by Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The central conflict is between the Captain and his wife Laura a…
Rudin
Read by Lee Smalley
Ivan Turgenev
Rudin is the first and perhaps least known novel by Ivan Turgenev, a famous Russian writer best known for his short stories and the novel Fa…