Published 1800 -1900

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 …

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…

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…

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…

El crimen de Lord Arturo Savile

Read by Victor Villarraza


Oscar Wilde


En "El crimen de Lord Arthur Saville" se nos revela el Wilde en estado puro, el observador más irónico y despiadado …

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…

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 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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Effi Briest (abridged)

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Theodor Fontane


Effi Briest is a classic of Prussian Realism, relatively unknown in the English speaking world, but widely taught in German schools. This tr…

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