Published 1800 -1900
Marion Fay
Read by Arnold
Anthony Trollope
Marion Fay (1882) offers a pair of romances, each involving a match between one titled personage and one commoner. The misalliances lead to …
Oliver Twist (version 3)
Read by Peter John Keeble
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist was published in 1838 as a three volume book. The novel was the first of Dickens' works to realistically portray the degradatio…
Work: A Story of Experience
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Louisa May Alcott
It is one of "several nineteenth-century novels [which] uncovers the changes in women's work in the new industrial era, as well as the …
Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain
Read by Kelly S. Taylor
Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain is a collection of three narratives about life in the theater based on Mowatt’s career on stage…
The Ivory Tower
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Henry James
An unfinished manuscript written in ponderous, convoluted language making possible subterfuge and frankness in wealthy American society of J…
Letters to the Joneses
Read by Keith Salis
Josiah Gilbert Holland
We watch our news and live our lives and see many things wrong with society today. It is easy for us to claim that things were better in &qu…
The Prime Minister (Version 2)
Read by Deon Gines
Anthony Trollope
The Prime Minister is the fifth novel in Trollope's Palliser Series, and is about the period of Plantagenet Palliser's term as Prime Ministe…
The Massarenes
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Ouida
The last novel by British author Ouida. It is a satirical look at societal norms through the story of the nouveau riche Massarenes. They att…
The English Orphans; Or, A Home in the New World
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Mary Jane Holmes
After Mary Howard and her sisters are left without parents in America, they are put up for adoption. Mary's pretty sister, Ella was adopted …
Thérèse Raquin (Version 2)
Read by Mark Nelson
Émile Zola
Thérèse Raquin, trapped in a loveless marriage with her cousin Camille, plots with her lover Laurent to murder him so they can…
The Feather
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Ford Madox Ford
The headstrong Princess Ernalie is one day carried off from her kingdom by an eagle. Unable to return home because of impassable terrain, sh…
Catherine's Coquetries: A Tale of French Country Life
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Camille Debans
Catherine is a beautiful woman, and despite being a respectable married woman, enjoys matchmaking, flirting and mischief. The tale is set in…
The Wing of Azrael, Volume 2
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Mona Caird
Mona Caird, a British writer and feminist, criticized in numerous non-fiction writings the state of marriage as it existed in her time. Her …
The Duke's Children (Version 2)
Read by Deon Gines
Anthony Trollope
The Duke's Children is the sixth and last novel of The Palliser Series in which the story of the Duke of Omnium's family changes and growing…
The Wing of Azrael, Volume 3
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Mona Caird
Mona Caird, a British writer and feminist, criticized in numerous non-fiction writings the state of marriage as it existed in her time. Her …
The Long Vacation
Read by Deon Gines
Charlotte Mary Yonge
The Long Vacation tells the story of the Underwood family dynamics over years of growth, change and interactions. - Summary by Deon Gines
Impressions of Theophrastus Such (Version 2)
Read by Mark Leder
George Eliot
The ruminations and reflections of a minor scholar. - Summary by Mark Leder
Impressions of Theophrastus Such (Version 2)
Read by Mark Leder
George Eliot
The ruminations and reflections of a minor scholar. - Summary by Mark Leder
The Dominion in 1983
Read by KHand
Ralph Centennius
First published as a booklet in 1883, "The Dominion in 1983" describes the author's ideas of what life in Canada is like one hundr…
The Dominion in 1983
Read by KHand
Ralph Centennius
First published as a booklet in 1883, "The Dominion in 1983" describes the author's ideas of what life in Canada is like one hundr…