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Sister Dolorosa - James Lane ALLEN
Sister Dolorosa - James Lane ALLEN
- Author: James Lane ALLEN
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900 / Christian Fiction
A Carmelite convent in Kentucky in the nineteenth century. A beautiful immature nun. A handsome immature visitor. A chance meeting. Whither? One might want to compare this story (1890) with an earlier one with a similar theme by the same author, The...
The Spirit of Sweetwater - Hamlin Garland
The Spirit of Sweetwater - Hamlin Garland
- Author: Hamlin Garland
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Clement had unwittingly succeeded where others had failed at mining in the western Colorado mountains. Now he found himself wanting to share his success with some deserving soul, and one day found a young dying woman to whom he seemed inexplicably...
Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
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 British novelists of the Victorian era. She was one of the earliest novelists ever to use dialect in her works,...
Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Mary Elizabeth Braddon's first novel, Lady Audley's Secret, was one of the most popular English novels of its day. Published serially in 1862, it tells the story of the lovely Lucy Graham, who becomes Lady Audley at the beginning of the novel, and...
A Christmas Carol (version 07) - Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol (version 07) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
The classic Christmas story of an old miser and the astonishing effect a series of ghostly visitors has upon him. This version has been read in a whisper and is perfect for night-time listening in a quiet room. The low volume is intentional! -...
An Editor's Tales - Anthony Trollope
An Editor's Tales - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Short Stories / Published 1800 -1900
These 'tales' describe a series of encounters between various magazine editors and those who wish to have their works published. While containing some amusing bits, the tales are relatively grim, compared to most Trollope stories. The Turkish Bath:...
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (version 2) - Charles Dickens
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (version 2) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
The last of Dickens' Christmas novellas (1848), The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain centres around Professor Redlaw, a teacher of chemistry, whose personal life has been marred by sorrow and, he feels, by wrongs done to him in his past. He is...
Là-bas - Joris-Karl HUYSMANS
Là-bas - Joris-Karl HUYSMANS
- Author: Joris-Karl HUYSMANS
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
The plot of Là-Bas concerns the novelist Durtal, who is disgusted by the emptiness and vulgarity of the modern world. He seeks relief by turning to the study of the Middle Ages and begins to research the life of the notorious 15th-century...
Over the Hills and Far Away: A Story of New Zealand - Charlotte EVANS
Over the Hills and Far Away: A Story of New Zealand - Charlotte EVANS
- Author: Charlotte EVANS
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
One of the very first New Zealand novels, Over the Hills and Far Away is a heavily romanticised tale of a woman's journey from England to Otago, New Zealand, and her subsequent experiences in the wild new colony. - Summary by Lewis Fletcher...
Collaboration - Henry James
Collaboration - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Short Stories / Published 1800 -1900
It is Paris sometime after the Franco-Prussian War (1870--Germany won--the French Second Republic collapsed--France embittered). A French poet and a German composer come to admire one another's work and decide to collaborate on an opera. There are...
Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short masterpiece about a ranting, slightly mad civil servant. The stylistic inventiveness, and the insights into the absurdities and weakness of humans seem so fresh and incisive today that if published now (a century and a...
He Knew He Was Right - Anthony Trollope
He Knew He Was Right - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
He Knew He Was Right is a 1869 novel written by Anthony Trollope which describes the failure of a marriage caused by the unreasonable jealousy of a husband exacerbated by the stubbornness of a willful wife. As is common with Trollope's works, there...
The Romance of a Christmas Card - Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Romance of a Christmas Card - Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
The story of the mission of two Christmas cards written by a minister’s wife. These cards find their way to two straying sheep from the village fold, who hear through the message in the words, and the little scenes on the cards, the compelling voice...
The Bishop's Secret - Fergus Hume
The Bishop's Secret - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Historical Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Bishop Pendle is the Church of England bishop in a small fictitious English cathedral town. Several years into his work, he receives a visit from a disreputable-looking visitor. The bishop is much upset. What transpired between them that has so...
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 4 - Eugène Sue
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 4 - 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...
The Celebrity - Winston CHURCHILL
The Celebrity - Winston CHURCHILL
- Author: Winston CHURCHILL
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Satirizes the rise of a young novelist (thought to be Richard Harding Davis, but denied as such by Churchill). - Summary by Joseph Tabler...
Mabel Ross, the Sewing Girl - Unknown
Mabel Ross, the Sewing Girl - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1800 -1900
Orphaned Mabel struggles to raise her sisters by working as a sewing girl for long hours and low wages. She meets her challenges with a calm steady faith while her younger sister chafes against the injustice of their lot in life. She is determined...
An American Politician - Francis Marion Crawford
An American Politician - Francis Marion Crawford
- Author: Francis Marion Crawford
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
In 1880’s Boston, Mass. the good life is lead according to all the Victorian era societal rules of the New World. Political ambitions and the business of making money go hand in hand. A Senate seat suddenly opens up due to the current junior...
The Country House - John Galsworthy
The Country House - John Galsworthy
- Author: John Galsworthy
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
In “The Country House”, John Galsworthy explores many of the themes he would later expand upon in his better known, nine-novel, “The Forsyth Saga”. This is a novel of English society as 1900 approaches. A divorce is being threatened in the Pendyce...
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is a tragic novel by English author Thomas Hardy subtitled, "The Life and Death of a Man of Character". It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge (based on the town of Dorchester in Dorset). The book is one of...
The Mikado, Or The Town Of Titipu - W. S. Gilbert
The Mikado, Or The Town Of Titipu - 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. The...
Joshua - Georg EBERS
Joshua - Georg EBERS
- Author: Georg EBERS
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900 / Christian Fiction
Hosea is a commander in Pharaoh's army... and a Hebrew. As he returns home from war, he finds that there has been a great pestilence in Egypt and his people are being blamed for it. Hosea receives a message from his father to follow his people to...
Christmas Stories from French and Spanish Writers - Undefined
Christmas Stories from French and Spanish Writers - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900 / Anthologies
Fifteen short stories by Antoinette Ogden from French and Spanish writers of many times. - Summary by david wales...
The Maid Of Sker - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
The Maid Of Sker - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Who is Bardie? Her refined clothes show that she is not an ordinary girl. But why did she have to be saved from the sea by a fisherman? This story is through the eyes of the fisherman, who followed Bardie throughout her childhood and attempted to...
The Statement of Stella Maberly - F. Anstey
The Statement of Stella Maberly - F. Anstey
- Author: F. Anstey
- Genre: Gothic Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
From childhood Stella Maberly has been violently wilful and jealous, yet certain of her own superiority. She can be loving and friendly, but soon loses friends, when in the grip of her “demons” she acts with disdain and subtle cruelty, and then...
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life - Honoré de Balzac
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life is one of the last great works completed by Balzac for his huge novel series entitled The Human Comedy. Sections of this book, in various groupings and with various titles, were published between 1838 and 1847. It...
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- Author: Gustave Flaubert
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Published in book form in April 1857, the novel focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Though the basic plot is rather...
Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences - H. G. Wells
Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Published 1800 -1900 / Essays & Short Works
Select Conversations with an Uncle, published in 1895, was H.G. Wells's first literary publication in book form. It consists of reports of twelve conversations between a fictional witty uncle who has returned to London from South Africa with "a...
Pan - Knut HAMSUN
Pan - Knut HAMSUN
- Author: Knut HAMSUN
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Pan tells the story Lieutenant Glahn and his summer in a forest north in Norway. He lives in a hut with his dog Aesop and they spend their days to hunting and fishing. In poetic language, Hamsun paints troubled souls in this gem of a book.The text...
Cradock Nowell Vol. 2 - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Cradock Nowell Vol. 2 - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Genre: 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, at the end of Volume 1, is thrown out of his family home by...
The Day Will Come - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Day Will Come - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance / Published 1800 -1900
It is an ideal honeymoon of an ideal couple. But somehow, the wife cannot stop dreaming that her husband would be shot and killed. He dismisses her dreams until they come true. Who commited the murder? How would the wife take it? - Summary by Stav...
The Brothers Karamazov (version 2) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov (version 2) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1800 -1900
Described as the Great Book of Wonders by Arthur Miller, this everyday tale of fraternal affection, sibling rivalry, obsession, lust, parricide, family intrigue, spiritual faith, death by economic deprivation and ultimate salvation in the soul,...
Irene Iddesleigh - Amanda McKittrick ROS
Irene Iddesleigh - Amanda McKittrick ROS
- Author: Amanda McKittrick ROS
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Amanda McKittrick Ros, a Northern Irish writer, did for the novel what William McGonagall did for poetry and Florence Foster Jenkins for the coloratura voice. She published a number of novels (all at her own expense) and in addition to being a...
Cecilia de Noël - Mary Elizabeth Hawker
Cecilia de Noël - Mary Elizabeth Hawker
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Hawker
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Cecilia de Noël is an original and cleverly told ghost story, published in 1891. The story is told, Rashomon-like, from six different viewpoints. - Summary by Wikipedia and David Wales...
Farewell - Honoré de Balzac
Farewell - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: War & Military Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
In his startling and tragic novella Farewell (‘Adieu’), Balzac adds to the 19th century’s literature of the hysterical woman: sequestered, confined in her madness; mute, or eerily chanting in her moated grange. The first Mrs Rochester lurks in the...
Love's Bitterest Cup - E.D.E.N. Southworth
Love's Bitterest Cup - E.D.E.N. Southworth
- Author: E.D.E.N. Southworth
- Genre: General / Published 1800 -1900
The sequel to "Her Mother's Secret". A wedding between Le and Odalite is rudely interrupted by Angus Anglesea, coming to claim his bride, or at least to keep her from marrying another. The Forces struggle to find justice against Angus Anglesea, even...
Strangers at Lisconnel - Jane BARLOW
Strangers at Lisconnel - Jane BARLOW
- Author: Jane BARLOW
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Strangers at Lisconnel is a sequel to Jane Barlow’s Irish Idylls. The locations and most of the characters are common to both. There is great humor and concomitantly a certain melancholy in most of these stories of the most rural of rural places in...
Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
This is Stowe's second book, another one depicting the horrors of southern slavery, published 4 years after Uncle Tom's Cabin and 5 years before the commencement of the Civil War, when new territories wanting admittance into the US (Texas, Oklahoma,...
Bartleby the Scrivener, A Story of Wall Street. - Herman Melville
Bartleby the Scrivener, A Story of Wall Street. - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
"Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Putnam's Magazine in two parts. The first part appeared in November 1853, with the conclusion published in December 1853....
A Country Doctor - Sarah Orne Jewett
A Country Doctor - Sarah Orne Jewett
- Author: Sarah Orne Jewett
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
A Country Doctor is a fiction novel by American author Sarah Orne Jewett. The book, which was first published in 1884, was based on the relationship between Jewett and her physician father. The main character of A Country Doctor, Nan, is a young...
