Published 1800 -1900
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…
Das Kloster bei Sendomir
Read by Availle
Franz Grillparzer
Zwei Ritter treffen spät in der Nacht im Kloster von Sendomir ein und bitten dort um Unterschlupf, der ihnen gewährt wird. Von ein…
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…
El Corsario
Read by Victor Villarraza
George Gordon, Lord Byron
El corsario es, ante todo, un poema autobiográfico que narra las aventuras de un tal Conrado, un corsario rechazado por la sociedad -…
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…
La muerte de Ivan Ilitch
Read by Victor Villarraza
Leo Tolstoy
La muerte de Iván Ilich (ruso: Смерть Ивана Ильича, Smert Ivana Ilichá), publicada por primera vez en 1886, es una novela cort…
La fille aux yeux d'or
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Honoré de Balzac
Au cours d’une promenade, le comte Henri de Marsay, un dandy féroce investi d’un pouvoir qui lui permet de plier toute personne &agra…
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…
A Dark Night's Work
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Love, murder and class commentary in Mrs Gaskell's usual brilliant style! This novel was originally serialised and published by Charles Dick…
The Way of All Flesh
Read by Rhonda Federman
Samuel Butler
The Way of All Flesh (1903) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler which attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between 1873 an…
Far Above Rubies
Read by Hannah Mary
George MacDonald
Proverbs 31:10-11 says, "Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust i…
Ralph the Heir
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Anthony Trollope
As usual, Trollope creates a nice variety of characters of different English classes, sentiments and positions. The primary themes are the i…
The Power of Words
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L. E. L.
The Dead Alive
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Wilkie Collins
Ill feelings exist between the Meadowcroft sons and John Jago, the foreman of the Meadowcroft estate. Then, John Jago disappears, and a body…
Das Waldbauernbübel
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Peter Rosegger
"Das Waldbauernbübel" ist nichts anderes, als eine Sammlung von Erlebnissen und Erfahrungen aus dem Jugendleben in der Waldhe…