Literary Fiction
A Vital Question, or, What is to be Done?
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Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Despised by Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, What Is To Be Done? is a fascinating, sympathetic story of idealistic revolutionaries in mid-nineteenth…
The Portrait of a Lady (version 3)
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Our central character is Isabel Archer of Albany, New York, a young woman of no great means, and no great beauty (that is, by her own estima…
The Steppe
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Anton Chekhov
Little Yegorushka goes off to school for the first time, setting out on the journey in the company of his Uncle Ivan, the local priest Fathe…
The Shadow-Line
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Joseph Conrad
Dedicated to the author's son who was wounded in World War 1, The Shadow-Line is a short novel based at sea by Joseph Conrad; it is one of h…
The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.
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William Makepeace Thackeray
First published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844 as The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq is a picaresque novel…
Crome Yellow, Version 2
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Aldous Huxley
Fascinating and brilliant at many levels, Huxley's spoof of Lady Ottoline Morrell's famous bohemian gatherings is difficult to categorize. T…
The Mill on the Floss (Version 2)
Read by Tom Denholm
George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s second novel, and was published in 1860, only a year after her first, Adam Bede. It centres on the l…
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…
The Forty-Five Guardsmen
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
The sequel to "Chicot the Jester" and final book of the "Valois Romances." This story begins six years after the famed &…
The Magic Skin
Read by James E. Carson
Honoré de Balzac
Something along the lines of Dorian Gray as part of the Comedies Humane Philosophique, this is Balzac's first successful novel. He even wrot…
Clayhanger
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Arnold Bennett
This first of a trilogy of novels is a coming-of-age story set in the Midlands of Victorian England, following Edwin Clayhanger as he leaves…
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…
Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages
Read by Gina Belmonde
Various
A delightful collection of short stories by some of the luminary authors of the Victorian era. These stories explore the truth behind the V…
The Bride of Lammermoor
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Sir Walter Scott
An historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, part of the Tales of My Landlord series, published anonymously in 1819. Based on a true story, it i…
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 11
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Seba Smith
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 20
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Lawrence Labree and Seba Smith
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…
Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker. Vol. III
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Berthold Auerbach
Surely you've heard it said that you don't just marry the individual, you marry their whole family. Though perhaps at first kindhearted Lenz…
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 05
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Seba Smith
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 09
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Lawrence Labree and Seba Smith
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…
Selected Poems
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Pauline B. Barrington
Pauline B. Barrington was an American poet and playwright. These poems were published between 1916 and 1918 and take for their inspiration t…