Published 1800 -1900
Le Nez d’un notaire
Read by Didier
Edmond About
Un brillant notaire parisien, Alfred L'Ambert, épris d’une danseuse de ballet de quatorze ans est provoqué en duel par son riv…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Country House
Read by Bob R
John Galsworthy
In “The Country House”, John Galsworthy explores many of the themes he would later expand upon in his better known, nine-novel, “The Forsyth…
Ana Karenina
Read by Carlos Lombardi
Leo Tolstoy
Ana Karenina es una mujer rusa que siente un amor incontenible por el conde Vrosnky estando ella ya casada. Conoce a su amante en un viaje d…
The Three Clerks
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Anthony Trollope
The Three Clerks was Trollope’s sixth novel and was written mostly in railway carriages, since his work for the Post Office still entailed a…
White Rose of Weary Leaf
Read by Lisa Reichert
Violet Hunt
Isobel Violet Hunt was a British author renowned for her literary salons, which hosted such notables as H.G. Wells, D.H. Laurence, Henry Jam…
A House of Gentlefolk
Read by tovarisch
Ivan Turgenev
The novel titled in Russian "Дворянское Гнездо" (Dvoryanskoye Gnezdo, sometimes translated as Home of the Gentry, A Nest of the Ge…
A Study in Scarlet (Version 7 Dramatic Reading)
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, …
Mollie's Prince
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Rosa Nouchette Carey
Mr. Ward is a failing artist. His two daughters, Mollie and Waveney, are very close. However when the financial situation becomes insufferab…
The Canadians of Old
Read by Bruce Pirie
Philippe Aubert De Gaspé
In his mid-70s, Philippe Aubert de Gaspé took on the project of recording the culture and heritage of French Canada, especially that …
Some Short Christmas Stories
Read by John Van Stan
Charles Dickens
Here are some classic, short Christmas stories from Charles Dickens, who, one may easily argue, was the greatest Christmas storyteller to da…
Taken at the Flood
Read by Celine Major
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Brought up by a parish schoolmaster with a hidden past, Sylvia Carew dreams of a future devoid of poverty. Will she be faithful to the man s…