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The Queen of Hearts - Wilkie Collins
The Queen of Hearts - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
The elderly Brothers Owen, Morgan and Griffith live a quiet, retired life in the countryside, which is turned upside-down by Griffith's ward, the young Jessie Yelverton. Originally, her visit to them was to last only six weeks, but for a very...
Last Days of Pompeii - Edward BULWER-LYTTON
Last Days of Pompeii - Edward BULWER-LYTTON
- Author: Edward BULWER-LYTTON
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. Once a very widely read book and now relatively neglected, it culminates in the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The...
The Way of All Flesh - Samuel BUTLER
The Way of All Flesh - Samuel BUTLER
- Author: Samuel BUTLER
- Genre: Satire / Published 1800 -1900
The Way of All Flesh (1903) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler which attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. It represents the diminishment of religious...
Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches - Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches - Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
- Author: Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900 / Single Author Collections
This is a collection of well-written engaging short stories written by "Q", the pen name of the prolific and eccentric Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch. - Summary by Amy Gramour...
First Love - Ivan Turgenev
First Love - Ivan Turgenev
- Author: Ivan Turgenev
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The "boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her" story is universal but not, I think, banal - despite a surprise ending which notoriously turns out to be very little of a surprise. First Love is...
Oliver Twist (version 3) - Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist (version 3) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Oliver Twist was published in 1838 as a three volume book. The novel was the first of Dickens' works to realistically portray the degradation and impoverishment of the London underworld and its denizens. Dickens utilises the environment and...
The Macdermots of Ballycloran - Anthony Trollope
The Macdermots of Ballycloran - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
This is the story of the Macdermots of Ballycloran the story is about the tragic demise of a landowning family. Larry Macdermot lives in a dilapidated mansion in Co. Leitrim, whose mortgage to Joe Flannelly he cannot keep up. Enmity between the...
Paul Clifford - Edward BULWER-LYTTON
Paul Clifford - Edward BULWER-LYTTON
- Author: Edward BULWER-LYTTON
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Most men who with some earnestness of mind examine into the mysteries of our social state will perhaps pass through that stage of self-education in which this Novel was composed. The contrast between conventional frauds, received as component parts...
Ruth - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Ruth - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
The book is a social novel, dealing with Victorian views about sin and illegitimacy. It is a surprisingly compassionate portrayal of a 'fallen woman', a type of person normally outcast from respectable society. The title of the novel refers to the...
Juggernaut: A Veiled Record - George Eggleston
Juggernaut: A Veiled Record - George Eggleston
- Author: George Eggleston
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Edgar Braine was consistently successful at all he set out to accomplish. He went through life with goals and worked diligently and with ethical purity in reaching those goals, from becoming editor of the local newspaper on up to his political...
The Ralstons - Francis Marion Crawford
The Ralstons - Francis Marion Crawford
- Author: Francis Marion Crawford
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Katharine has married Jack Ralston secretly and hoped to force her rich uncle's hand in assisting him to find a career. After his refusal, she couldn't face her new husband to break the news and a series of mishaps led everyone - Katharine included...
Lost Illusions: Ève and David - Honoré de Balzac
Lost Illusions: Ève and David - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Ève and David (1843) is the final book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine. The story is set in post-Napoleonic France. In the first volume of the trilogy (Two Poets,...
The Three Clerks - Anthony Trollope
The Three Clerks - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
The Three Clerks was Trollope’s sixth novel and was written mostly in railway carriages, since his work for the Post Office still entailed a good deal of travelling; to make life easier for himself, Trollope had devised what he called his ‘tablet’,...
Dr Paull's Theory - Alice Mangold DIEHL
Dr Paull's Theory - Alice Mangold DIEHL
- Author: Alice Mangold DIEHL
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Hugh Paull's training in a London hospital is nearly complete, and he will soon be qualified as a doctor. But what fate is in store for him? What destiny links him to the family of one of his patients? And how will he meet the strange events ahead?...
Uncle's Dream - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Uncle's Dream - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
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. Following what could only have been a harrowing and harsh existence in Russia’s infamous prison for political...
Dombey and Son (version 2) - Charles Dickens
Dombey and Son (version 2) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Dombey and Son is a novel by the Victorian author Charles Dickens. The story concerns Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company of the book's title, whose dream is to have a son to continue his business. The book begins when his son is...
Blind Love - Wilkie Collins
Blind Love - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Blind Love, also published under the titles Iris and The Lord Harry is Wilkie Collins' last novel, completed after his death by Walter Besant. The blind love in the title refers to the love of Iris, a woman of virtue, for the morally corrupt Henry...
In the Village of Viger - Duncan Campbell Scott
In the Village of Viger - Duncan Campbell Scott
- Author: Duncan Campbell Scott
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
These ten superb short stories of Duncan Campbell Scott, published in 1896, portray humorous, farcical, and tragic aspects of life in the fictional Quebec village of Viger. Scott’s tales of the lives and vicissitudes of Viger’s inhabitants include...
Wounds In The Rain; War Stories - Stephen Crane
Wounds In The Rain; War Stories - Stephen Crane
- Author: Stephen Crane
- Genre: War & Military Fiction / Published 1800 -1900 / Single Author Collections
Eleven stories of war by the author of The Red Badge of Courage. Stephen Crane was an American author. He is recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation. Crane's writing is characterized by vivid intensity,...
Kitty Alone - Sabine Baring-Gould
Kitty Alone - Sabine Baring-Gould
- Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Kate Quarm is a bright and sensitive girl. She lives with her aunt and uncle at Coombe Cellers, a farmhouse, eating house and store occupying a promontory in the estuary of the Teign, in the south of Devon. Kate's father is a dreamer, always off on...
The Half-Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier - Walt Whitman
The Half-Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier - Walt Whitman
- Author: Walt Whitman
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Published anonymously in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (with an earlier draft also appearing as “Arrow-Tip” in The Aristidean), The Half-Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier is one of the few known works of long-form fiction written by Walt Whitman...
Nina Balatka - Anthony Trollope
Nina Balatka - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
A romance set in Prague between a Catholic and a Jew. In this short novel, Trollope moves away from his usual milieu to explore a theme which has universal resonance. - Summary by Anthony Ogus...
Opening a Chestnut Burr - Edward P. Roe
Opening a Chestnut Burr - Edward P. Roe
- Author: Edward P. Roe
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900 / Christian Fiction
Walter Gregory is a gentleman whose health is broken down by the stress of Wall Street and the consequences of his fast lifestyle. Disillusioned in love and betrayed in friendship, he returns to visit his childhood home in the country. Who is this...
Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication, Story 2 (Dramatic Reading) - R. M. Ballantyne
Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication, Story 2 (Dramatic Reading) - R. M. Ballantyne
- Author: R. M. Ballantyne
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Published 1800 -1900 / Fantasy Fiction
Join us in a journey of two young men in search of adventure as they discover more than they bargained for. - Summary by Linette Geisel (Note: The first two files were discovered in an archaeological dig of the LibriVox servers, were carefully...
The Golden Calf - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Golden Calf - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
A late 19th Century sensation novel following the young life of Ida Palliser as she searches for fortune and love within England's Gentry Class. Victorian sensation books were often set in ordinary, familiar setting, undermining the perceived...
Ralph the Heir - Anthony Trollope
Ralph the Heir - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
As usual, Trollope creates a nice variety of characters of different English classes, sentiments and positions. The primary themes are the inheritance of property, extravagance or reason in the spending of assets, the mating of young people, and the...
Effi Briest (abridged) - Theodor Fontane
Effi Briest (abridged) - Theodor Fontane
- Author: Theodor Fontane
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Effi Briest is a classic of Prussian Realism, relatively unknown in the English speaking world, but widely taught in German schools. This tragic tale tells the story of Effi, a young woman from an old and respectable family who, due to a sense of...
The Egoist - George Meredith
The Egoist - George Meredith
- Author: George Meredith
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1800 -1900
The Egoist is a tragi-comical novel by George Meredith published in 1879. The novel recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patterne and his attempts at marriage; jilted by his first bride-to-be, he vacillates between the sentimental...
Ask Mamma: or The Richest Commoner In England - Robert Smith Surtees
Ask Mamma: or The Richest Commoner In England - Robert Smith Surtees
- Author: Robert Smith Surtees
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Considering that Billy Pringle, or Fine Billy, as his good-natured friends called him, was only an underbred chap, he was as good an imitation of a Swell as ever we saw. He had all the airy dreaminess of a hereditary high flyer, while his big talk...
A Study in Scarlet (Version 7 Dramatic Reading) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet (Version 7 Dramatic Reading) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Detective Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A...
Tales of Mean Streets - Arthur Morrison
Tales of Mean Streets - Arthur Morrison
- Author: Arthur Morrison
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
This is the first book of a trilogy (A Child of the Jago, To London Town) set in the harsh world of London's East End. Violence and poverty are everywhere, but the universal human emotions prevail despite the rawness of life. We come to love the...
Some Short Christmas Stories - Charles Dickens
Some Short Christmas Stories - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Short Stories / Published 1800 -1900 / Single Author Collections
Here are some classic, short Christmas stories from Charles Dickens, who, one may easily argue, was the greatest Christmas storyteller to date. In this season, may we do as Dickens' asked: "Welcome, everything! Welcome, alike what has been, and what...
Miss Crespigny - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Miss Crespigny - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance / Published 1800 -1900
This is a less known, but not less beautiful, novel by the author of The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, The Lost Prince, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Shuttle, and many more. There is something different about miss Lysbeth Crespigny. Raised by...
Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain - Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain - Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
- Author: Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain is a collection of three narratives about life in the theater based on Mowatt’s career on stage. The stories, “Stella,” “The Prompter’s Daughter,” and “The Unknown Tragedian” reveal the every-day...
Horror Stories - Ada Buisson
Horror Stories - Ada Buisson
- Author: Ada Buisson
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Gothic Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Ada Buisson was a Victorian novelist and short story author. This collection includes her three horror stories, all of which were published in the journal Belgravia in 1867-1869. - Summary by Newgatenovelist...
The Murder of Delicia - Marie Corelli
The Murder of Delicia - Marie Corelli
- Author: Marie Corelli
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
The following slight and unelaborated sketch of a very commonplace and everyday tragedy will, I am aware, meet with the unqualified disapproval of the 'superior' sex. They will assert, with much indignant emphasis, that the character of 'Lord...
Moments With Mark Twain - Mark Twain
Moments With Mark Twain - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900 / Essays & Short Works
These selections from the works of Mark Twain are presented in chronological order. They include the memorable whitewashing of the fence in "Tom Sawyer", events preceding the Mississippi River raft journey in "Huckleberry Finn", a dark moment during...
The Island of Doctor Moreau (Version 3) - H. G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau (Version 3) - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
In 1896 HG Wells produced the Island of Doctor Moreau. After a fateful shipwreck, a chance rescue, and offer of safe harbor, Edward Prendick must contend with a dark science. A man of science, Prendick must wrestle with the ethics of its passions....
The Story of a Modern Woman (Version 2) - Ella Hepworth DIXON
The Story of a Modern Woman (Version 2) - Ella Hepworth DIXON
- Author: Ella Hepworth DIXON
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
“The Story of a Modern Woman” (1894) is a work of feminist social realism. In its time it was one of the most famous and influential novels to grow out of and shape the “New Woman” movement of the 1890s. It won such attention for its author that...
Almayer's Folly (Version 3) - Joseph Conrad
Almayer's Folly (Version 3) - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Joseph Conrad was born in former Poland, spent part of his childhood exiled in Russia because of his father's Polish nationalist political activities, learned and read French early, and did not speak a word of English until his late teens. It is...
