Published 1800 -1900
The Liar
Read by Deborah Percy
Henry James
A successful painter reconnects with the woman he once loved during a visit to an English country house. His surprise is great when he learn…
Joshua
Read by Ann Boulais
Georg Ebers
Hosea is a commander in Pharaoh's army... and a Hebrew. As he returns home from war, he finds that there has been a great pestilence in Egy…
Sylvie and Bruno
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Lewis Carroll
The novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional w…
1900 or The Last President
Read by CJ Plogue
Ingersoll Lockwood
The year is 1896. The United States is rocked by the election of an unlikely president. On election night, riots broke out in the streets …
From Jest to Earnest
Read by LikeManyWaters
Edward P. Roe
As a practical joke at a house party, a young and beautiful socialite tries to make a fool out of a visiting young missionary to amuse her f…
Miss Crespigny
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
This is a less known, but not less beautiful, novel by the author of The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, The Lost Prince, Little Lord Faun…
Penelope's English Experiences
Read by Maria Therese
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Penelope's English Experiences is a fictional travelogue, which documents the experiences of three American ladies on a visit to England. In…
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life is one of the last great works completed by Balzac for his huge novel series entitled The Human Comedy. Sect…
Aunt Jane's Hero
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Elizabeth Prentiss
Aunt Jane is a good and loving woman, important to everyone except herself, always willing to give good advice. Her "hero", Horace…
Nina Balatka
Read by Anthony Ogus
Anthony Trollope
A romance set in Prague between a Catholic and a Jew. In this short novel, Trollope moves away from his usual milieu to explore a theme whic…
Là-bas
Read by Peter Tucker
Joris-Karl Huysmans
The plot of Là-Bas concerns the novelist Durtal, who is disgusted by the emptiness and vulgarity of the modern world. He seeks relief…
The Trumpet-Major
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Thomas Hardy
Our heroine, Anne Garland, lives quietly in a rural community deep in the English countryside. However, the arrival of several regiments pr…
Lost Illusions: Ève and David
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
Ève and David (1843) is the final book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively t…
Horror Stories
Read by Newgatenovelist
Ada Buisson
Ada Buisson was a Victorian novelist and short story author. This collection includes her three horror stories, all of which were published …
Madame Bovary (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Gustave Flaubert
Written over a century and a half ago, Madame Bovary is still an extraordinarily fresh, exciting and shockingly frank novel, at once an acut…
The Absentee
Read by Bruce Pirie
Maria Edgeworth
Published in 1812, “The Absentee” by Maria Edgeworth examines social injustice in 19th-century Britain. At that time, the management of man…
The Island of Doctor Moreau (Version 3)
Read by Tom Haire
H. G. Wells
In 1896 HG Wells produced the Island of Doctor Moreau. After a fateful shipwreck, a chance rescue, and offer of safe harbor, Edward Prendick…
Germinal (English )
Read by Matt Perard
Émile Zola
This epic about French coal miners and the burgeoning labor movement is considered one of Zola's finest novels. - Summary by Matt Pierard
A Country Doctor
Read by Jeannie
Sarah Orne Jewett
A Country Doctor is a fiction novel by American author Sarah Orne Jewett. The book, which was first published in 1884, was based on the rela…
Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite
Read by Simon Evers
Anthony Trollope
Sir Harry Hotspur’s only son and heir dies young which means that the title goes to a cousin, George Hotspur. Sir Harry wants the ancestral …