Published 1800 -1900
The Celebrity
Read by Joseph Tabler
Winston Churchill
Satirizes the rise of a young novelist (thought to be Richard Harding Davis, but denied as such by Churchill). - Summary by Joseph Tabler
Cousin Maude
Read by Celine Major
Mary Jane Holmes
When Matilda's husband James dies, she marries rich Dr. Kennedy thinking he will provide a good home for her daughter Maude. However, the do…
Impressions of Theophrastus Such
Read by Josh Mitteldorf
George Eliot
Impressions of Theophrastus Such is a work of fiction by George Eliot, first published in 1879. It was Eliot's last published writing and he…
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 5
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…
Irene Iddesleigh
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Amanda Mckittrick Ros
Amanda McKittrick Ros, a Northern Irish writer, did for the novel what William McGonagall did for poetry and Florence Foster Jenkins for the…
An Editor's Tales
Read by Arnold
Anthony Trollope
These 'tales' describe a series of encounters between various magazine editors and those who wish to have their works published. While conta…
The White Dove
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
Sylvester Lanyon, a doctor, is mourning the early death of his wife. His young daughter Dorothy is living with his father, Matthew, also a w…
In the Village of Viger
Read by Lee Smalley
Duncan Campbell Scott
These ten superb short stories of Duncan Campbell Scott, published in 1896, portray humorous, farcical, and tragic aspects of life in the fi…
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 6
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…
Collaboration
Read by David Wales
Henry James
It is Paris sometime after the Franco-Prussian War (1870--Germany won--the French Second Republic collapsed--France embittered). A French po…
Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences
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H. G. Wells
Select Conversations with an Uncle, published in 1895, was H.G. Wells's first literary publication in book form. It consists of reports of t…
Almayer's Folly (Version 3)
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad was born in former Poland, spent part of his childhood exiled in Russia because of his father's Polish nationalist political a…
Katharine Lauderdale Volume 1
Read by Lynne T
Francis Marion Crawford
Katharine Lauderdale would be a New York society belle, if it were not for her miserly father. Her older sister has escaped the unhappy pare…
The Maid Of Sker
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Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Who is Bardie? Her refined clothes show that she is not an ordinary girl. But why did she have to be saved from the sea by a fisherman? This…
Cradock Nowell Vol. 2
Read by Lynne T
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Cradock Nowell: a Tale of the New Forest is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1866. Set in the New Forest and in London, …
The Last Lords of Gardonal
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William Gilbert
Two brothers, born into money and power, are as cruel as the feudal age in which they live. But when the oppressed villagers seek help from …
Juggernaut: A Veiled Record
Read by Roger Melin
George Eggleston
Edgar Braine was consistently successful at all he set out to accomplish. He went through life with goals and worked diligently and with eth…
Tales of Mean Streets
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Arthur Morrison
This is the first book of a trilogy (A Child of the Jago, To London Town) set in the harsh world of London's East End. Violence and poverty …
Monica - Complete
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Evelyn Everett-Green
Monica was happy at Trevlyn, with her father and step-brother. But what would happen to them when the estate passed to a distant cousin, ent…
The Man Who Ended War
Read by Sylviamb
Hollis Godfrey
Jim Orrington, news reporter, is at the office when the Secretary of War brings in a letter--mostly likely a prank--that demands all the nat…