Published 1800 -1900
For Love and Life Vol. 1
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Margaret O. Oliphant
“The device on his shield was a young oak tree pulled up by the roots, with the Spanish word Desdichado, signifying Disinherited.” The novel…
Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter?
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Helen H. Gardener
Twenty-year-old Gertrude Foster has had the sheltered upbringing typical of women of her class. Yet, she questions the restrictive norms wit…
Foul Play
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Charles Reade
Wrongly convicted of a crime, Robert Penfold is condemned to 5 years penal servitude. After a year he is transported on the hulk VENGEANCE d…
Za chlebem
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Henryk Sienkiewicz
Historia dwojga ludzi, ojca i córki, i ich podróży przez Atlantyk w poszukiwaniu lepszego życia w Stanach Zjednoczonych - Summ…
The Two Brothers
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Honoré de Balzac
“The Two Brothers” (1842) is part of Balzac’s great life work, the novel series known as “The Human Comedy.” Balzac’s French title was “La R…
The Countess of Rudolstadt
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George Sand
This sequel to Consuelo picks up not long after the striking conclusion of the first novel. Consuelo is enjoying a brilliant singing career…
The Tracy Diamonds
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Mary Jane Holmes
In Part 1 of The Tracy Diamonds, wealthy, notorious flirt, Helen Tracy sets her sights on the one man who has shown no interest in her. Invi…
The Story of a Modern Woman (Version 2)
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Ella Hepworth Dixon
“The Story of a Modern Woman” (1894) is a work of feminist social realism. In its time it was one of the most famous and influential novels …
His Darling Sin
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Grace Perivale is young, beautiful and rich. She and her beloved husband are the center of high society. Until Hector suddenly and unexpecte…
Ask Mamma: or The Richest Commoner In England
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Robert Smith Surtees
Considering that Billy Pringle, or Fine Billy, as his good-natured friends called him, was only an underbred chap, he was as good an imitati…
The Day of Resis
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Lillian Frances Mentor
Enola Cameron received a strange manuscript in the mail that sends her on an adventure of a lifetime making a discovery that no one could ha…
Can You Forgive Her? (Version 2)
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Anthony Trollope
Can You Forgive Her was published over 2 years in serial form. It follows the life story of three women involved with courtship and marriag…
Colonel Chabert (Version 2)
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Honoré de Balzac
The short novel “Colonel Chabert” (1832) is part of Balzac’s great life work, the sprawling novel series titled “The Human Comedy.” Chabert,…
Klaasje Zevenster, deel 3
Read by Anna Simon
Jacob Van Lennep
Een groepje Leidse studenten viert een gezellige Sinterklaasavond in de jaren '20 van de 19e eeuw, als er onverwachts een pakketje aan de de…
Madame de Mauves
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Henry James
Considered an early masterpiece, "Madame de Mauves" is the first of Henry James's 'international contrasts'. It recounts the story…
El buen mozo (Bel ami)
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Guy de Maupassant
En esta novela, una de las más conocidas obras de Guy de Maupasssant, nos cuenta la historia de George Duroy, un joven ambicioso, sin…
Valda berättelser
Read by Anna Sofia Andersson
Selma Lagerlöf and Jules Mauritzon
A selection of short stories by Selma Lagerlöf. In Swedish, but with a short foreword in English. Edited by Jules Mauritzon. - Summary …
Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest
Read by Peter Dann
George Borrow
This unusual narrative by eccentric self-taught English linguist, traveller and one-time bible salesman George Borrow combines elements of a…
The Murder of Delicia
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Marie Corelli
The following slight and unelaborated sketch of a very commonplace and everyday tragedy will, I am aware, meet with the unqualified disappro…
La cruzada de los niños
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Marcel Schwob
La cruzada de los niños, constituye una joya de la literatura universal en la que, mediante una polifonía de voces, ocho mon&o…