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A House of Gentlefolk - Ivan Turgenev
A House of Gentlefolk - Ivan Turgenev
- Author: Ivan Turgenev
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
The novel titled in Russian "Дворянское Гнездо" (Dvoryanskoye Gnezdo, sometimes translated as Home of the Gentry, A Nest of the Gentlefolk, A Nest of the Gentry) is considered a sequel to "Rudin". It is the story of the protagonist Fyodor Ivanych...
John Halifax, Gentleman - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
John Halifax, Gentleman - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
- Author: Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
This novel, published in 1856, was one of the popular and beloved novels in the Victorian era. It is told in the first person by Phineas Fletcher, an invalid son of a Quaker tanner who is presented to us in the beginning as a lonely youth. John...
Alice; or The Wages of Sin - Frederic Werden Pangborn
Alice; or The Wages of Sin - Frederic Werden Pangborn
- Author: Frederic Werden Pangborn
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
This book is given to the reader, as the exposition of a terrible possibility in actual life. Should there be found, in its pages, any warm tints, any cheering or amusing passages, the author will be glad to know that they have brightened a moment...
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 6 - Eugène Sue
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 6 - Eugène Sue
- Author: Eugène Sue
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Rodolphe, who is really the Grand Duke of Gerolstein (a fictional kingdom of Germany) but is disguised as a Parisian worker. He can speak in argot, is extremely strong and a good fighter. However he shows great compassion for the lower classes, good...
Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite - Anthony Trollope
Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Sir Harry Hotspur’s only son and heir dies young which means that the title goes to a cousin, George Hotspur. Sir Harry wants the ancestral property to go to his daughter, Emily, and hopes that a future husband will adopt the family name. George is...
The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Little Nell, a beautiful and virtuous young girl who lives with her grandfather in his shop of curiosities. Her grandfather loves her dearly, and Nell does not complain, but she lives a lonely existence...
Beyond These Voices - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Beyond These Voices - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
This novel tells the fictional life story of Veera Davis. The daughter of a poet and a poor noble woman, who is left in the care of her grandmother to a lonely and monotonous childhood, she has to make her way up in the world. But everything has a...
The Chimes - Charles Dickens
The Chimes - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1800 -1900
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, published in 1844. Its contemporary setting is the "Hungry Forties", a time of social and political unrest, and...
Wanted - A Pedigree - Martha Finley
Wanted - A Pedigree - Martha Finley
- Author: Martha Finley
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900 / Christian Fiction
Nina Clemmens was adopted as a baby. When her parents die, she goes to live with her religious aunt, who mistreats her because of her temper and her origin. Nina has been haunted by a woman in black for her whole life. She meets Dr. Monteith, who is...
The Last Day of a Condemned - Victor HUGO
The Last Day of a Condemned - Victor HUGO
- Author: Victor HUGO
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
A man who has been condemned to death writes down his cogitations, feelings and fears while he is waiting for his execution. He does not betray his name to the reader or what he has done. He describes his life in prison, everything from what his...
Mollie's Prince - Rosa Nouchette Carey
Mollie's Prince - Rosa Nouchette Carey
- Author: Rosa Nouchette Carey
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Mr. Ward is a failing artist. His two daughters, Mollie and Waveney, are very close. However when the financial situation becomes insufferable, and Waveney has to enter service, the sisters have to part for the first time. The book tells both...
Cradock Nowell Vol. 1 - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Cradock Nowell Vol. 1 - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Genre: Family Life / Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Cradock Nowell: a Tale of the New Forest is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1866. Set in the New Forest and in London, it follows the fortunes of Cradock Nowell who is thrown out of his family home by his father following the...
It Is Never Too Late to Mend - Charles Reade
It Is Never Too Late to Mend - Charles Reade
- Author: Charles Reade
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
A ruthless squire becomes obsessed with a younger woman and conspires against her lover, George Fielding, so that the squire can win her. With the squire's financial pressure turned up on his family, George goes to Australia to earn money enough to...
Mont Oriol: or A Romance of Auvergne - Guy de Maupassant
Mont Oriol: or A Romance of Auvergne - Guy de Maupassant
- Author: Guy de Maupassant
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Young bride Christiane arrives in Auvergne to "take the waters" with her husband, described as "a sickly flower, or a sucking pig with its hair shaved off." But rather than the relaxing family vacation she expects, she finds herself the center of a...
The Mysteries of Marseilles - Émile Zola
The Mysteries of Marseilles - Émile Zola
- Author: Émile Zola
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
The elopement of Philippe Cayol, an aspiring liberal, poor and untitled with Blanche De Cazalis, niece of a powerful millionaire and politician sets the stage in this novel full of twists and turns with villains a plenty. Philippe's brother Marius...
Uncle Tom's Cabin (version 2) - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin (version 2) - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
This is a deeply moving novel centered around the lives of Uncle Tom and others and which very effectively portrays the suffering caused by the practice of slavery in the American South, prior to and during the time of the Civil War. It also...
The Girl with the Golden Eyes - Honoré de Balzac
The Girl with the Golden Eyes - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Listeners who like to plunge straight into a story would do well to skip the lengthy preamble. Here, Balzac the virtuoso satirist depicts the levels of Parisian society as a version of the Inferno of Dante - but perhaps keeps the reader waiting too...
Confidence - Henry James
Confidence - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
This light and somewhat awkward comedy centers on artist Bernard Longueville, scientist Gordon Wright, and the sometimes inscrutable heroine, Angela Vivian. The plot rambles through various romantic entanglements before reaching an uncomplicated,...
The Woman Who Did - Grant Allen
The Woman Who Did - Grant Allen
- Author: Grant Allen
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
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 "fall in love" and get married. But it is not so for Herminia Barton and Alan Merrick. They do indeed fall in love,...
Dodo: A Detail of the Day - E. F. Benson
Dodo: A Detail of the Day - E. F. Benson
- Author: E. F. Benson
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Fashionably controversial bestseller at the time of appearance (1893), portraying London "society" in the Fin de Siècle. Dodo is a young woman who enjoys belonging to the high society. At the start of the book, she is about to make an advantageous...
Marion Fay - Anthony Trollope
Marion Fay - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Marion Fay (1882) offers a pair of romances, each involving a match between one titled personage and one commoner. The misalliances lead to the typical strains between parental desires and romantic wishes of the young. The novel’s primary characters...
Fabiola or The Church of the Catacombs - Cardinal Nicholas Patrick WISEMAN
Fabiola or The Church of the Catacombs - Cardinal Nicholas Patrick WISEMAN
- Author: Cardinal Nicholas Patrick WISEMAN
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Religious Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
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 Diocletian. The heroine of the book is Fabiola, a young pagan beauty from a noble Roman family. Fabiola seems...
Mizora: A Prophecy. - Mary E Bradley LANE
Mizora: A Prophecy. - Mary E Bradley LANE
- Author: Mary E Bradley LANE
- Genre: Science Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
After being exiled from her home and family, Vera Zarovich finds herself in Mizora, a civilization at the center of the Earth made up entirely of women. This text recounts her experiences there and what she learns during in time in this "utopian"...
A Lear of the Steppes, etc. - Ivan Turgenev
A Lear of the Steppes, etc. - Ivan Turgenev
- Author: Ivan Turgenev
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
This book contains three novellas by one of the major writers of Russian literature. The first, A LEAR OF THE STEPPES, is a brilliant re-imagining of Shakespeare’s play King Lear, wherein a larger-than-life father makes a life-altering decision with...
Catriona - Robert Louis Stevenson
Catriona - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
This is a sequel to Kidnapped. Many thought Kidnapped ended quite abruptly. The reason is Stevenson planned on writing a sequel. Catriona takes up the story of David Balfour on the same day Kidnapped ends. He must now try to clear his name and the...
A Christmas Carol (version 06) - Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol (version 06) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
The tale begins on a Christmas Eve exactly seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner. Scrooge has no place in his life for kindness, compassion, charity or benevolence. He hates Christmas, calling it "humbug", refuses his...
The Silver Bullet - Fergus Hume
The Silver Bullet - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Dr. Jim Herrick and his friend Robin are on a walking tour in the English countryside when they come across a large house where all the lights in the house are on and all of the doors are open. While trying to find someone at home, they discover the...
Eleven Possible Cases - Various
Eleven Possible Cases - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
This book brings together eleven stories, each a case of intrigue where more is going on than seems at first. - Summary by A. Gramour...
Romance of California Life; Illustrated By Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pathetic And Humorous - John HABBERTON
Romance of California Life; Illustrated By Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pathetic And Humorous - John HABBERTON
- Author: John HABBERTON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Short Stories / Published 1800 -1900
These 37 short stories were authored by John Habberton (1842–1921), an American writer. He spent nearly twenty years as the literary and drama critic for the New York Herald, but he is best known for his stories about early California life, many of...
Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy
Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
This novel is subtitled The Mellstock Quire, A Rural Painting of the Dutch School. The Quire is the group of musicians who accompany the hymns at the local church and we follow the fortunes of one member, Dick Dewy, who falls in love with the new...
Asphodel - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Asphodel - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Like the Asphodel, a plant which grows far away from England, Daphne grows far away from home. In her first chance of freedom, at the age of almost 17, she finds an opportunity to forget for a while... Forget that her father, the renowned Sir Vernon...
H.M.S. Pinafore; Or, The Lass That Loved A Sailor - W. S. Gilbert
H.M.S. Pinafore; Or, The Lass That Loved A Sailor - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900 / Satire
In this recording, one person reads the entire play, all parts, including the stage directions. Even without the support of Arthur Sullivan’s music and the interpretation of actors, the consummate silliness of Gilbert’s libretto entertains. H.M.S....
The Two Heroines of Plumplington - Anthony Trollope
The Two Heroines of Plumplington - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
In the small English Town of Plumplington the daughter of a brewer and that of a banker each has selected her future husband contrary to the wishes of her father. Both young men are regarded as not 'good enough', though each is, in fact, much like...
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (version 2) - Thomas Hardy
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (version 2) - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Tess of the d'Urbervilles subtitled, "A Pure Woman," is the story of a young working woman named Tess Durbeyfield who is sent by her father to visit wealthy relatives. Her encounter with Alec d'Urberville changes her life forever, and brings about a...
White Rose of Weary Leaf - Violet Hunt
White Rose of Weary Leaf - Violet Hunt
- Author: Violet Hunt
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Isobel Violet Hunt was a British author renowned for her literary salons, which hosted such notables as H.G. Wells, D.H. Laurence, Henry James, W. Somerset Maugham, Oscar Wilde and Ezra Pound. In White Rose of Weary Leaf (often considered her best...
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 5 - Eugène Sue
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 5 - Eugène Sue
- Author: Eugène Sue
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Rodolphe, who is really the Grand Duke of Gerolstein (a fictional kingdom of Germany) but is disguised as a Parisian worker. He can speak in argot, is extremely strong and a good fighter. However he shows great compassion for the lower classes, good...
A Vanished Hand - Sarah Doudney
A Vanished Hand - Sarah Doudney
- Author: Sarah Doudney
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Memories haunt Elsie Kilner at every turn. Kicked out of her family home, she finds a new abode in which she finds fragments of a diary. It begins with the words: "If I only knew that some one would be kind to Jamie". Finding a kindred spirit in the...
Rachel Gray - Julia KAVANAGH
Rachel Gray - Julia KAVANAGH
- Author: Julia KAVANAGH
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Kavanagh's books feature strong young women, like herself, and had much popular appeal among that audience during her lifetime. She lived most of her life in France, caring for her invalid mother, remaining unmarried. 'Rachel Gray' is founded on...
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
"David Copperfield" or "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery" was first published in 1850. Like all except five of his works, it originally appeared in serial form....
The Man Who Ended War - Hollis GODFREY
The Man Who Ended War - Hollis GODFREY
- Author: Hollis GODFREY
- Genre: Romance / Science Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Jim Orrington, news reporter, is at the office when the Secretary of War brings in a letter--mostly likely a prank--that demands all the nations of the world to disarm in one year or have all their battleships destroyed. This letter, signed "The man...
