Published 1800 -1900
Christmas Stories from French and Spanish Writers
Read by David Wales
Pedro Antonio De Alarcón Y Ariza
Fifteen short stories by Antoinette Ogden from French and Spanish writers of many times. - Summary by david wales
Confidence
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Henry James
This light and somewhat awkward comedy centers on artist Bernard Longueville, scientist Gordon Wright, and the sometimes inscrutable heroine…
The Half-Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier
Read by Chuck Williamson
Walt Whitman
Published anonymously in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (with an earlier draft also appearing as “Arrow-Tip” in The Aristidean), The Half-Breed: A…
Lost for Love
Read by Celine Major
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
EXCERPT: In all things that he did, Flora's well-being was the doctor's paramount consideration. He brought pleasant people to his house; me…
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 3
Read by Celine Major
Eugène Sue
Rodolphe, who is really the Grand Duke of Gerolstein (a fictional kingdom of Germany) but is disguised as a Parisian worker. He can speak in…
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2)
Read by Linda Olsen Fitak
Edwin Abbott Abbott
This is a satirical novel written by Edwin A. Abbott, first published in 1884. Abbott uses a two-dimensional world, with himself as the prot…
The Spirit of Sweetwater
Read by Roger Melin
Hamlin Garland
Clement had unwittingly succeeded where others had failed at mining in the western Colorado mountains. Now he found himself wanting to share…
Mildred at Roselands
Read by Amy
Martha Finley
In order to recover her health, Mildred Keith goes to visit her mother's extended family, the Dinsmores, in the South. Mildred makes new fri…
John Halifax, Gentleman
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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
This novel, published in 1856, was one of the popular and beloved novels in the Victorian era. It is told in the first person by Phineas Fle…
The Statement of Stella Maberly
Read by Anne Fletcher
F. Anstey
From childhood Stella Maberly has been violently wilful and jealous, yet certain of her own superiority. She can be loving and friendly, but…
Kit and Kitty
Read by Keith Salis
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Kit Orchardson, an apprentice produce grower in Sunbury, England describes for us a time in his youth in which he fell in love with Kitty, a…
God's fool
Read by Anna Simon
Maarten Maartens
At the age of nine, Elias Lossell becomes deaf and blind from an accident. Communication with him becomes difficult, and mentally, he never …
The Bachelors' Club
Read by Keith Salis
Israel Zangwill
The Bachelors' Club is a sanctuary for an elite group of London's unmarried men to gather. To qualify as a Bachelor, each had to undergo a s…
Asphodel
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Like the Asphodel, a plant which grows far away from England, Daphne grows far away from home. In her first chance of freedom, at the age of…
The Unclassed
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George Gissing
The Unclassed tells the story of two friends who are aspiring authors living in London in the late 19th century. Both of them fall in love. …
A Vanished Hand
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Sarah Doudney
Memories haunt Elsie Kilner at every turn. Kicked out of her family home, she finds a new abode in which she finds fragments of a diary. It …
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 2
Read by Celine Major
Eugène Sue
Rodolphe, is really the Grand Duke of Gerolstein (a fictional kingdom of Germany) but is disguised as a Parisian worker. He can speak in ar…
The Untempered Wind
Read by Bruce Pirie
Joanna E. Wood
Upon publication of “The Untempered Wind” in 1894, Joanna Wood quickly rose to international prominence, becoming in the next few years the …
The Begum's Fortune
Read by Kate Follis
Jules Verne
A novel with some utopian elements, but primarily dystopian. A French doctor and a German professor both inherit a vast fortune as descendan…
The Black Monk
Read by Daniel Davison
Anton Chekhov
Aspiring academic Andrei Kovrin, while summering in the countryside per the advice of a physician, is haunted by the apparition of a black m…