Published 1800 -1900
Bartleby the Scrivener, A Story of Wall Street.
Read by Bob Tassinari
Herman Melville
"Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Pu…
The Woodlanders (version 2)
Read by Tadhg
Thomas Hardy
The Woodlanders is one of Hardy's later novels, although he originally intended it as a successor to Far From The Madding Crowd. It concerns…
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Version 6)
Read by Phil Chenevert
Mark Twain
Follow the young boy Huckleberry Finn and the slave Jim on their epic journey down the Mississippi River in the years before the Civil War. …
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (version 2)
Read by Ruth Golding
Charles Dickens
The last of Dickens' Christmas novellas (1848), The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain centres around Professor Redlaw, a teacher of chemis…
The Hidden Hand
Read by Bridget Gaige
E.D.E.N. Southworth
"If you will listen to this book, you will meet a cast of unforgettable characters, as different from one another as the sun and moon. …
The Chimes
Read by Ruth Golding
Charles Dickens
The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In is the second of Charles Dickens' Christmas books, publ…
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Read by Debra Lynn
Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is a tragic novel by English author Thomas Hardy subtitled, "The Life and Death of a Man of Character&…
The Mill on the Floss
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George Eliot
The novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a brother and sister growing up on the river Floss near the village of St. Oggs, evi…
Wives and Daughters
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
If you like Jane Austen, you will probably like this book!Mrs. Gaskell, as she was often referred to, is considered one of the greatest Brit…
Kitty Alone
Read by MaryAnn
Sabine Baring-Gould
Kate Quarm is a bright and sensitive girl. She lives with her aunt and uncle at Coombe Cellers, a farmhouse, eating house and store occupyi…
The Gold Bag
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Carolyn Wells
The case involves a millionaire murdered in his study, suspicious servants, a beautiful niece, a private secretary and a will. enamored. A H…
Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Version 2)
Read by Tony Foster
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
"Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life" was Mrs Gaskell's first full-length novel. It was published anonymously in that tumultuou…
The Brothers Karamazov (version 2)
Read by Tony Addison
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Described as the Great Book of Wonders by Arthur Miller, this everyday tale of fraternal affection, sibling rivalry, obsession, lust, parric…
The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna
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James Fenimore Cooper
The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is one of the Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels by American wr…
Mary Barton
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester du…
First Love
Read by Martin Geeson
Ivan Turgenev
The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The "boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her" story is universal but not, …
Under the Greenwood Tree
Read by Rachel Lintern
Thomas Hardy
This novel is subtitled The Mellstock Quire, A Rural Painting of the Dutch School. The Quire is the group of musicians who accompany the hym…
Barchester Towers
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Anthony Trollope
This is the second in Trollope’s ‘Barsetshire’ series of novels. The later novels in the series move away from Barchester itself but 'Barche…
The Golden Calf
Read by Tara Dow
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A late 19th Century sensation novel following the young life of Ida Palliser as she searches for fortune and love within England's Gentry Cl…
Uncle Tom's Cabin (version 2)
Read by Larraine Paquette
Harriet Beecher Stowe
This is a deeply moving novel centered around the lives of Uncle Tom and others and which very effectively portrays the suffering caused by …