Published 1800 -1900
He Knew He Was Right
Read by Arielle Lipshaw
Anthony Trollope
He Knew He Was Right is a 1869 novel written by Anthony Trollope which describes the failure of a marriage caused by the unreasonable jealou…
Hard Times (version 3), Locked Out and On Strike
Read by Phil Benson
Charles Dickens
Hard Times was Dickens's shortest novel and the only one to be set in the industrial north of England. A fast moving story with a typical ca…
Henry Dunbar
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
In this novel by Victorian sensationalist Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Henry Dunbar returns to England after a 30-year exile to India for committ…
The Cossacks
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Leo Tolstoy
The Cossacks (1863) is an unfinished novel which describes the Cossack life and people through a story of Dmitri Olenin, a Russian aristocra…
Wyllard's Weird
Read by Lynne T
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A novel written in three volumes. In the golden age of steam, the London train wends its way across the Tamar into the strange and mystic la…
The Silver Bullet
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Fergus Hume
Dr. Jim Herrick and his friend Robin are on a walking tour in the English countryside when they come across a large house where all the ligh…
Last Days of Pompeii
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. Once a very widely read book and now relatively neglected, it culmi…
Farewell
Read by Martin Geeson
Honoré de Balzac
In his startling and tragic novella Farewell (‘Adieu’), Balzac adds to the 19th century’s literature of the hysterical woman: sequestered, c…
Selected Classics of Washington Irving
Read by Greg Giordano
Washington Irving
Washington Irving is one of early America's most treasured writers. He is best known for his wit and satirical voice. Irving had the extraor…
Orley Farm
Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
Anthony Trollope
Orley Farm is Trollope at his best (as good as the Barsetshire series), which means some of the best characterizations in the English langua…
The Three Clerks (version 2)
Read by Anthony Ogus
Anthony Trollope
Romance and crime in the mid-19th century British Civil Service. In this early novel,Trollope draws on his own experiences as a junior clerk…
Uncle's Dream
Read by Greg Giordano
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Uncle’s Dream by Fyodor Dostoyevsky was written following his five year exile to Siberia where he was sent to serve in a hard labor camp. F…
The Queen of Hearts
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Wilkie Collins
The elderly Brothers Owen, Morgan and Griffith live a quiet, retired life in the countryside, which is turned upside-down by Griffith's ward…
Fabiola or The Church of the Catacombs
Read by Maria Therese
Cardinal Nicholas Patrick Wiseman
This historical novel is set in Rome in the early 4th century AD, during the time of the cruel persecution of Christians under the Emperor D…
The Girl with the Golden Eyes
Read by Martin Geeson
Honoré de Balzac
Listeners who like to plunge straight into a story would do well to skip the lengthy preamble. Here, Balzac the virtuoso satirist depicts th…
The Kreutzer Sonata
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Leo Tolstoy
Publication of The Kreutzer Sonata in 1889 was a significant intellectual event worldwide. Censored in Russia, it set off an explosive debat…
The Woman Who Did
Read by Ruth Golding
Grant Allen
Most times, especially in the time when this book was written (1895), it is just as nature and society would wish: a man and woman "fal…
L'Assommoir
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Émile Zola
Émile François Zola (French pronunciation: [emil zɔˈla]) (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, …
The Lifted Veil (Version 2)
Read by Kirsten Wever
George Eliot
George Eliot’s 1859 novella, The Lifted Veil, departs radically from the grounded realism of her longer and better known works, such as Midd…
The Wheel of Time
Read by David Wales
Henry James
Fanny Knocker is a very, very plain young woman. She is introduced to the extremely handsome, thoroughly impoverished, younger son of an old…