Published 1800 -1900
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&…
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…
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…
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 …
Agnes Grey
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Anne Brontë
The novel tells the story of Agnes Grey, the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to financial ruin. Desperate to earn the money to ca…
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…
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…
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…