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Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope
Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
This is the second in Trollope’s ‘Barsetshire’ series of novels. The later novels in the series move away from Barchester itself but 'Barchester Towers' is very much a sequel to the first book ‘The Warden’, which is also available from Librivox. The...
The Fate of Fenella - Various
The Fate of Fenella - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
One book, twenty-four authors ... Fenella is the beautiful, girlish and headstrong heroine of a sensational Victorian novel which continually passes from one writer's cliffhanger to another's resolution. Fenella, with her young son Ronny, is...
Selected Classics of Washington Irving - Washington Irving
Selected Classics of Washington Irving - Washington Irving
- Author: Washington Irving
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Washington Irving is one of early America's most treasured writers. He is best known for his wit and satirical voice. Irving had the extraordinary ability to paint a picture in words on the canvas of the printed page. Irving spent time in England...
L'Assommoir - Émile Zola
L'Assommoir - Émile Zola
- Author: Émile Zola
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Émile François Zola (French pronunciation: [emil zɔˈla]) (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism. More than half of Zola’s novels were part of a set of...
Sense and Sensibility (version 2) - Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility (version 2) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
This is a story of the English moneyed class and its eternal struggle for creating “sense and sensibility” in its world. A potential marriage prospect must make “sense” by bringing with it enough assets and income to permit the couple to continue to...
Mary Barton - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Mary Barton - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester during the 1830s and 1840s and deals heavily with the difficulties faced by the Victorian lower class. The...
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 2 - Eugène Sue
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 2 - Eugène Sue
- Author: Eugène Sue
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Rodolphe, 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 Liar - Henry James
The Liar - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900 / Single Author Collections
A successful painter reconnects with the woman he once loved during a visit to an English country house. His surprise is great when he learns that her husband is susceptible to a very peculiar habit. - Summary by Deborah Percy...
A Traveller from Altruria - William Dean Howells
A Traveller from Altruria - William Dean Howells
- Author: William Dean Howells
- Genre: Satire / Published 1800 -1900
Set in the early 1890s, at a fashionable summer resort somewhere on the East Coast of the United States, this book tells the story of Mr. Twelvemough, an author who has been selected to function as host to a visitor from the faraway island of...
The Idiot (Part 01 and 02) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Idiot (Part 01 and 02) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Russia to claim his inheritance and to find a place in healthy human society.The teeming St Petersburg...
Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Version 2) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Version 2) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
"Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life" was Mrs Gaskell's first full-length novel. It was published anonymously in that tumultuous year of political change, 1848 - only a few months after the Communist Manifesto co-authored by her fellow...
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Middlemarch - George Eliot
- Author: George Eliot
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
The book examines the role of education in the lives of the characters and how such education and study has affected the characters. Rosamond Vincy's finishing school education is a foil to Dorothea Brooke's religiously-motivated quest for...
In League With Israel - Annie Fellows Johnston
In League With Israel - Annie Fellows Johnston
- Author: Annie Fellows Johnston
- Genre: Religion / Published 1800 -1900
When Bethany Hallam travels to Chattanooga for the League Conference, she meets David Herschel, who challenges her thinking and changes her views about her missionary obligations to God's "chosen people." ( Esther ben Simonides)...
Sylvie and Bruno - Lewis Carroll
Sylvie and Bruno - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Published 1800 -1900
The novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional world of Fairyland. While the latter plot is a fairytale with many nonsense elements and poems, similar to...
The Dead Alive - Wilkie Collins
The Dead Alive - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Ill feelings exist between the Meadowcroft sons and John Jago, the foreman of the Meadowcroft estate. Then, John Jago disappears, and a body is found in a kiln. The Meadowcroft brothers stand accused of the crime, but are they guilty? The Dead Alive...
A Dark Night's Work - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
A Dark Night's Work - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Love, murder and class commentary in Mrs Gaskell's usual brilliant style! This novel was originally serialised and published by Charles Dickens, with whom Mrs Gaskell had several disagreements. She chose to avoid melodrama and concentrate on...
Smoke - Ivan Turgenev
Smoke - Ivan Turgenev
- Author: Ivan Turgenev
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Smoke is an 1867 novel by the highly acclaimed Russian writer Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) that tells the gripping story of a secret love affair between a young betrothed Russian man and a young married Russian woman, while also delivering in the...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 2) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 2) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
A collection of twelve short stories featuring Conan Doyle's legendary detective, originally published as single stories in Strand Magazine and subsequently collected into a single volume. There is not always a crime committed nor a culprit to find,...
Katharine Lauderdale Volume 1 - Francis Marion Crawford
Katharine Lauderdale Volume 1 - Francis Marion Crawford
- Author: Francis Marion Crawford
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Katharine Lauderdale would be a New York society belle, if it were not for her miserly father. Her older sister has escaped the unhappy parental home by marrying and Katherine plans to do the same, but her father has already refused to sanction her...
The Riddle Ring - Justin McCarthy
The Riddle Ring - Justin McCarthy
- Author: Justin McCarthy
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance / Published 1800 -1900
This romantic mystery - or mysterious romance - tells the tale of jilted lover, Jim Conrad, who discovers an unusual gold ring while on a visit to Paris. What is the story of the ring? Why is Clelia Vine so sad? Who is the nameless 'chief'? And how...
Katharine Lauderdale Volume 2 - Francis Marion Crawford
Katharine Lauderdale Volume 2 - Francis Marion Crawford
- Author: Francis Marion Crawford
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Katherine Lauderdale would be a New York society belle, if it were not for her miserly father. Her older sister has escaped the unhappy parental home by marrying and Katherine plans to do the same, but her father has already refused to sanction her...
A House to Let - Undefined
A House to Let - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
A House to Let is a short story originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine. Each of the contributors wrote a chapter (stories within a story, or, in the case of Adelaide Anne Procter, poetry) and the...
The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth
The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth
- Author: Maria Edgeworth
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Published in 1812, “The Absentee” by Maria Edgeworth examines social injustice in 19th-century Britain. At that time, the management of many Irish estates suffered from the absenteeism of their Anglo-Irish landlords. We meet Lord and Lady Clonbrony....
Hard Times (version 2), Locked Out and On Strike - Charles Dickens
Hard Times (version 2), Locked Out and On Strike - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Hard Times was Dickens's shortest novel and the only one to be set in the industrial north of England. A fast moving story with a typical cast of larger than life characters, the novel is a vehicle for a humanist critique of both utilitarian...
The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna - James Fenimore Cooper
The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna - James Fenimore Cooper
- Author: James Fenimore Cooper
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is one of the Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. The Pioneers was first of these books to be published (1823), but the period of...
Armand Durand - Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
Armand Durand - Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
- Author: Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Armand Durand, published in 1868, was written by Rosanna Leprohon, an English-speaker with an insider’s knowledge of French Canada, thanks to her Montreal education and marriage to a man from an old Québécois family. Paul Durand, a prosperous...
The Pretty Sister Of José - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Pretty Sister Of José - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Pepita would rather become a witch than a wife. She's seen too many women, including her mother, wither away at their husband's hands. Popular and respected, our gentle, but fiercely independent heroine immediately grows cruel and cold to any suitor...
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, along with The Three Musketeers, as Dumas's most popular work. The writing of the work was completed in 1844. Like...
The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
- Author: George Eliot
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
The novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a brother and sister growing up on the river Floss near the village of St. Oggs, evidently in the 1820’s, after the Napoleonic Wars but prior to the first Reform Bill (1832). The novel spans a...
New Grub Street - George Gissing
New Grub Street - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
"The story deals with the literary world that Gissing himself had experienced. Its title refers to the London street, Grub Street, which in the 18th century became synomynous with hack literature; as an institution, Grub Street itself no longer...
The Woodlanders (version 2) - Thomas Hardy
The Woodlanders (version 2) - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
The Woodlanders is one of Hardy's later novels, although he originally intended it as a successor to Far From The Madding Crowd. It concerns the life and loves of Giles Winterborne, Grace Melbury, Edred Fitzpiers, Felice Charmond and Marty South....
Impressions of Theophrastus Such - George Eliot
Impressions of Theophrastus Such - George Eliot
- Author: George Eliot
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Impressions of Theophrastus Such is a work of fiction by George Eliot, first published in 1879. It was Eliot's last published writing and her most experimental, taking the form of a series of literary essays by an imaginary minor scholar whose...
Around The Yule Log - Willis Boyd ALLEN
Around The Yule Log - Willis Boyd ALLEN
- Author: Willis Boyd ALLEN
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900 / Single Author Collections
Eleven yule-tide stories by a popular writer of the late 19th – early 20th centuries. - (Summary by david wales)...
God's fool - Maarten MAARTENS
God's fool - Maarten MAARTENS
- Author: Maarten MAARTENS
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
At the age of nine, Elias Lossell becomes deaf and blind from an accident. Communication with him becomes difficult, and mentally, he never really grows up. Years later, circumstances make him the richest man in town as the heir of the wealthy firm...
Oliver Twist (version 7) - Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist (version 7) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Orphan boy Oliver is forced into child labor at an early age, and after a simple plea for more food, finds himself alone in the streets of London, where ultimately he becomes the center of attention for a gang of pickpockets. - Summary by Brad...
Germinal (English) - Émile Zola
Germinal (English) - Émile Zola
- Author: Émile Zola
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
This epic about French coal miners and the burgeoning labor movement is considered one of Zola's finest novels. - Summary by Matt Pierard...
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Братья Карамазовы) is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered the culmination of his life's work. The book portrays a parricide in which each of a murdered man's sons...
The Compleat Bachelor - Oliver ONIONS
The Compleat Bachelor - Oliver ONIONS
- Author: Oliver ONIONS
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
George Oliver Onions (1873 – 1961) was a British writer of story collections and over 40 novels…. Onions wrote detective fiction, social comedy, historical fiction and romance novels. This social comedy of late Victorian England is among his first...
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 3 - Eugène Sue
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 3 - 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 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Version 6) - Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Version 6) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Follow the young boy Huckleberry Finn and the slave Jim on their epic journey down the Mississippi River in the years before the Civil War. This masterpiece by Mark Twain is a delightful mixture of exciting adventures, sad mishaps, floods, lazy days...
