Published 1800 -1900 - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 1
1900 or The Last President - Ingersoll Lockwood
1900 or The Last President - Ingersoll Lockwood
- Author: Ingersoll Lockwood
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
The year is 1896. The United States is rocked by the election of an unlikely president. On election night, riots broke out in the streets of New York. The city was paralyzed with dread. Mobs organized under the lead of Anarchists and Socialists....
Henry Dunbar - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Henry Dunbar - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
In this novel by Victorian sensationalist Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Henry Dunbar returns to England after a 30-year exile to India for committing forgery. What follows is an adventure involving murder, deception, the ethical quandaries of guilt and...
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2) - Edwin Abbott Abbott
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2) - Edwin Abbott Abbott
- Author: Edwin Abbott Abbott
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire / Published 1800 -1900
This is a satirical novel written by Edwin A. Abbott, first published in 1884. Abbott uses a two-dimensional world, with himself as the protagonist, known simply as "A Square", to deride the Victorian aristocracy and its hierarchies. But the book...
A Christmas Carol (version 08 dramatic reading) - Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol (version 08 dramatic reading) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the...
Aunt Jane's Hero - Elizabeth Prentiss
Aunt Jane's Hero - Elizabeth Prentiss
- Author: Elizabeth Prentiss
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Aunt Jane is a good and loving woman, important to everyone except herself, always willing to give good advice. Her "hero", Horace, is far different: in the beginning of the story, he is a good but a little unthoughtful youth. But at the end, his...
The Autobiography of Cockney Tom - Thomas Bastard
The Autobiography of Cockney Tom - Thomas Bastard
- Author: Thomas Bastard
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
The Autobiography of Cockney Tom, Showing his Struggles through Life,and proving this Truth of the Old Saying"that Honesty is the best Policy". Set in England, South Australia and the goldfields of Victoria Australia in the 1800's. (Summary from the...
Fritz to the Front - Edward L. Wheeler
Fritz to the Front - Edward L. Wheeler
- Author: Edward L. Wheeler
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Fritz to the Front is the story of an Irish tramp who wants to be a detective, and is an expert at ventriloquism. The story opens with a mysterious elopement, which Fritz is asked to be a witness to at the wedding. The next day, Fritz meets the...
Rameau's Nephew - Denis Diderot
Rameau's Nephew - Denis Diderot
- Author: Denis Diderot
- Genre: Satire / Published 1800 -1900
Rameau's Nephew, or the Second Satire (French: Le Neveu de Rameau ou La Satire seconde) is an imaginary philosophical conversation written by Denis Diderot, probably between 1761 and 1772. It was first published in 1805 in German translation by...
The Gold Bag - Carolyn Wells
The Gold Bag - Carolyn Wells
- Author: Carolyn Wells
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
The case involves a millionaire murdered in his study, suspicious servants, a beautiful niece, a private secretary and a will. enamored. A Holmes like detective is brought in to solve the mystery. (Summary by Richard Kilmer)...
Wyllard's Weird - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Wyllard's Weird - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
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 land that is Cornwall, having left most of its length at Plymouth. A weary doctor gazes at the countryside,...
Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë
Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë
- Author: Anne Brontë
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
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 care for herself, she takes one of the few jobs allowed to respectable women in the early Victorian era – the...
The Lifted Veil (Version 2) - George Eliot
The Lifted Veil (Version 2) - George Eliot
- Author: George Eliot
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
George Eliot’s 1859 novella, The Lifted Veil, departs radically from the grounded realism of her longer and better known works, such as Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. Its tone calls to mind the works of middlebrow Sensationists, like Wilkie Collins...
The Three Clerks (version 2) - Anthony Trollope
The Three Clerks (version 2) - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
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 in the General Post Office to provide an entertaining and moving account of how ambition within the service...
The Wheel Of Time - Henry James
The Wheel Of Time - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Fanny Knocker is a very, very plain young woman. She is introduced to the extremely handsome, thoroughly impoverished, younger son of an old family. What will transpire? (David Wales)...
A Daughter Of The Vine - Gertrude Atherton
A Daughter Of The Vine - Gertrude Atherton
- Author: Gertrude Atherton
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
We are introduced to Englishman Dudley Thorpe on the evening of his arrival in California. At a ball, he is introduced to several belles, including the lovely Nina Randolph. Is this the start of something special? Dudley thinks so, but what about...
The Hidden Hand - E.D.E.N. Southworth
The Hidden Hand - E.D.E.N. Southworth
- Author: E.D.E.N. Southworth
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
"If you will listen to this book, you will meet a cast of unforgettable characters, as different from one another as the sun and moon. But they have one thing in common - all of them hide many, many secrets. The plot of this book is full of twists...
The Old Curiosity Shop (version 3) - Charles Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop (version 3) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Nell and her elderly grandfather must flee from home after losing their shop and home to the evil Mr. Quilp. Her good-for-nothing brother, convinced that his grandfather is hoarding a great fortune intended for Nell, joins forces with Quilp to hunt...
The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy
The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Publication of The Kreutzer Sonata in 1889 was a significant intellectual event worldwide. Censored in Russia, it set off an explosive debate in Europe, America, and Asia on matters relating to sexual abstinence and the hypocrisy of marriage. The...
Charlotte's Inheritance - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Charlotte's Inheritance - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
A lesser known novel by the sensational English novelist, Charlotte's Inheritance opens in Paris in a dilapidated boarding house let to students by a scarcely adequate landlady. Enter Gustave, a young provincial, arriving in Paris supposedly to...
Clayhanger (Version 2) - Arnold Bennett
Clayhanger (Version 2) - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
A coming-of-age story about Edwin Clayhanger, who leaves school, has his ambition to become an architect thwarted by his tyrannical father, Darius, and so works in the family printing business. Edwin eventually takes over the business successfully....
Pierre, or The Ambiguities - Herman Melville
Pierre, or The Ambiguities - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
The life of a young heir, Pierre is altered when he meets a mysterious woman who claims to be his sister....
A Day of Fate - Edward P. Roe
A Day of Fate - Edward P. Roe
- Author: Edward P. Roe
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900 / Christian Fiction
A night editor at a New York paper escapes to the country to avoid a nervous breakdown. Providence lands him in the middle of a loving Quaker family in time to save them from being roasted by a lightning strike. Then what could be more natural than...
Far Above Rubies - George MacDonald
Far Above Rubies - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Short Stories / Published 1800 -1900 / Christian Fiction
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 in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil." (KJV) With this in mind, George MacDonald gives us the short story...
Gobseck - Honoré de Balzac
Gobseck - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Part of the La Comedie Humane and something of a sequence to Balzac's Father Goriot, the short book's title is the name of the pawn broker/money lender the father Goriot utilized to maintain his spoiled daughters in the luxury he had accustomed them...
Orley Farm - Anthony Trollope
Orley Farm - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Satire / Published 1800 -1900
Orley Farm is Trollope at his best (as good as the Barsetshire series), which means some of the best characterizations in the English language. Trollope's people are real; the beleaguered Lady Mason, charged with forging a will; the aged lover Sir...
Rudin - Ivan Turgenev
Rudin - Ivan Turgenev
- Author: Ivan Turgenev
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Rudin is the first and perhaps least known novel by Ivan Turgenev, a famous Russian writer best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. The story focuses on a romantic involvement between Rudin and Natalya, a serious, intelligent...
From Jest to Earnest - Edward P. Roe
From Jest to Earnest - Edward P. Roe
- Author: Edward P. Roe
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900 / Christian Fiction
As a practical joke at a house party, a young and beautiful socialite tries to make a fool out of a visiting young missionary to amuse her friends. She pretends to be a seeker in order to win his affections, but gets a lot more than she bargained...
Work: A Story of Experience - Louisa May Alcott
Work: A Story of Experience - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
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 dilemmas, tensions, and the meaning of that work" The story depicts the struggles of a young woman trying to...
A Study In Scarlet (Version 6) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study In Scarlet (Version 6) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Detective Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new characters, "consulting detective" Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler, Dr. John Watson, who later became two of the most famous...
The Father - August Strindberg
The Father - August Strindberg
- Author: August Strindberg
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900 / Drama
The Father is a naturalistic drama by Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The central conflict is between the Captain and his wife Laura about their daughter Bertha's future. In order to gain sole custody of her daughter, Laura tries to convince...
One Life, One Love - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
One Life, One Love - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Clara and Robert Hatrell lead an ideal life with their young daughter Daisy in a beautiful old fashioned cottage on the banks of the Thames. When his son Cyril goes away to school their friend and neighbor Ambrose Arden who is a notable scholar...
The Betrothed (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Alessandro Manzoni
The Betrothed (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Alessandro Manzoni
- Author: Alessandro Manzoni
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Dramatic Readings / Published 1800 -1900
One of the most famous Italian books in history, The Betrothed was written by Alessandro Manzoni in 1827. The two main characters, Renzo and Lucy, are engaged to be married when Lucy tragically disappears. Little does Renzo know that Lucy has been...
Schopenhauer in the Air - Sadakichi Hartmann
Schopenhauer in the Air - Sadakichi Hartmann
- Author: Sadakichi Hartmann
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Sadakichi Hartmann was an art and literary critic who wrote plays, short stories and several volumes of poetry. Hauntingly beautiful, these seven early short stories dance with themes of beauty and death, love and the soul, and existence itself. As...
The Cossacks - Leo Tolstoy
The Cossacks - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
The Cossacks (1863) is an unfinished novel which describes the Cossack life and people through a story of Dmitri Olenin, a Russian aristocrat in love with a Cossack girl. This text was acclaimed by Ivan Bunin as one of the finest in the language....
Silas Marner - George Eliot
Silas Marner - George Eliot
- Author: George Eliot
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Silas Marner (originally published in 1861): Betrayed by a beloved friend and accused of a crime he didn’t commit, awkward Silas Marner is expelled from his beloved religious community — the only community he has ever known. He exiles himself in the...
The Awakening (version 2) - Kate Chopin
The Awakening (version 2) - Kate Chopin
- Author: Kate Chopin
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Kate Chopin's 1899 novella The Awakening is about the personal, sexual, and artistic awakening of a young wife and mother, Edna Pontellier. While on vacation at Grand Isle, an island in the Gulf of Mexico, Edna befriends the talented pianist Mlle....
The Trumpet Major - Thomas Hardy
The Trumpet Major - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Our heroine, Anne Garland, lives quietly in a rural community deep in the English countryside. However, the arrival of several regiments preparing for an expected invasion brings colour and chaos to the county. A graceful and charming young woman,...
Doctor Luttrell's First Patient - Rosa Nouchette Carey
Doctor Luttrell's First Patient - Rosa Nouchette Carey
- Author: Rosa Nouchette Carey
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Doctor Markus Luttrell and his new wife Olivia, a former governess, are trying to start building their nest. Problems arise when doctor Luttrell cannot find work and Olivia has to take care of the house. The financial problems make their marriage...
Lost for Love - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Lost for Love - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
EXCERPT: In all things that he did, Flora's well-being was the doctor's paramount consideration. He brought pleasant people to his house; men of professional standing, and their wives. He sought to win friends for her, and the gentle charm of her...
The Canadians of Old - Philippe Aubert de Gaspé
The Canadians of Old - Philippe Aubert de Gaspé
- Author: Philippe Aubert de Gaspé
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
In his mid-70s, Philippe Aubert de Gaspé took on the project of recording the culture and heritage of French Canada, especially that of the late 1700s, the world of his youth. The result, published in French in 1863, was the historical fiction "Les...
