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Madame Bovary (Version 2) - Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary (Version 2) - Gustave Flaubert
- Author: Gustave Flaubert
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1800 -1900
Written over a century and a half ago, Madame Bovary is still an extraordinarily fresh, exciting and shockingly frank novel, at once an acute psychological study of a woman drawn into adultery through circumstances we can partly understand, and a...
Mauprat - George SAND
Mauprat - George SAND
- Author: George SAND
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Bernard Mauprat was raised by lawless brigands and knows no other way of life until age 17. Then everything changes for him when his cousin Edmee is taken hostage in the castle where he lives. After helping her escape, he goes to live with his uncle...
Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Dr. Grimshawe is a spider-cultivating eccentric. The central secret of the book is an all-encompassing spiders web. The central character is loosely based on the author Nathaniel Hawthorne. He always considered the book as unfinished and it wasn't...
Antonia - George SAND
Antonia - George SAND
- Author: George SAND
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Will love conquer all? An entertaining novel of growth in light of societal pressures of propriety, finance and inheritance of 19th century France. Intriguing events and turns of phrase abound. (Summary by Christine Rottger )...
The Mute Singer, a Novel - Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
The Mute Singer, a Novel - Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
- Author: Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Sylvie de la Roche is the daughter of a destitute former nobleman and his wife living in the slums of Paris circa 1847. Her magnificent singing voice is discovered by the irascible, but equally impoverished, old musician, Maître Beaujeu. Under his...
Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter? - Helen H. Gardener
Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter? - Helen H. Gardener
- Author: Helen H. Gardener
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Twenty-year-old Gertrude Foster has had the sheltered upbringing typical of women of her class. Yet, she questions the restrictive norms with which she has been raised and does not wish to marry a man who will not see her as an equal. Gertrude...
Ticonderoga; A Story of Early Frontier Life in the Mohawk Valley - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
Ticonderoga; A Story of Early Frontier Life in the Mohawk Valley - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Author: George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
In the backwoods, lives a man and his two teenage children. He has sought the quiet life on the frontier, although he is a friend to all and never turns away a stranger. One evening, one such stranger arrives at his door, asking for shelter for the...
Unveiling a Parallel - Alice Ilgenfritz Jones
Unveiling a Parallel - Alice Ilgenfritz Jones
- Author: Alice Ilgenfritz Jones
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Science Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
In this work of utopian science fiction from the Victorian era written by Two Women of the West, a moniker for Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Marchant. A man travels to Mars to discover an Utopian world which is parallel to the Earth in some ways,...
Ships That Pass in the Night - Beatrice Harraden
Ships That Pass in the Night - Beatrice Harraden
- Author: Beatrice Harraden
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
This short novel by Beatrice Harraden, who was known for her work as a suffragist, was a bestseller in its time. In it, teacher and activist Bernardine Holme takes up residence at a tuberculosis sanatorium after falling ill. There she meets Robert...
A Superfluous Woman - Emma Francis BROOKE
A Superfluous Woman - Emma Francis BROOKE
- Author: Emma Francis BROOKE
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Published anonymously in 1894, “A Superfluous Woman” quickly became one of the most widely read of the “New Woman” novels that appeared at the end of the 19th century. At the opening of the story, we find Jessamine Halliday, a pampered young...
Consuelo - George SAND
Consuelo - George SAND
- Author: George SAND
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
This roman à clef follows the musical adventures of Consuelo, a gifted singer under the tutelage of the composer Nicola Porpora. After encountering betrayal in her home city of Venice, she goes to stay with a family of nobles in an isolated castle...
Ormond - Maria Edgeworth
Ormond - Maria Edgeworth
- Author: Maria Edgeworth
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Maria Edgeworth was one of the most popular writers of her time, a sharp and witty observer of society manners, and a favorite author for Jane Austen. “Ormond,” published in 1817, is a “coming-of-age” novel, tracing a young man’s development as he...
The Phantom Regiment; or, Stories of "Ours" - James Grant
The Phantom Regiment; or, Stories of "Ours" - James Grant
- Author: James Grant
- Genre: War & Military Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
The title and a quick glance at the chapter titles of James Grant's The Phantom Regiment--such as "The Romance of the Month," "The Halt in Cork Wood," "Rio de la Muerte (Spanish for death)," Pedro, the Contrabandist," "A Legend of Fife," "The...
The Forest Lovers - Maurice Henry HEWLETT
The Forest Lovers - Maurice Henry HEWLETT
- Author: Maurice Henry HEWLETT
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
My story will take you into times and spaces alike rude and uncivil. Blood will be spilt, virgins suffer distresses; the horn will sound through woodland glades; dogs, wolves, deer, and men, Beauty and the Beasts, will tumble each other, seeking...
Heriot's Choice - Rosa Nouchette Carey
Heriot's Choice - Rosa Nouchette Carey
- Author: Rosa Nouchette Carey
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Mildred wants to start her full life at the age of 28. She is looking forward to it until her brother asks her to come help in his home and care for his children. She has to take the role of "Aunt Milly," the almost happy and contented care taker....
The Countess of Rudolstadt - George SAND
The Countess of Rudolstadt - George SAND
- Author: George SAND
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
This sequel to Consuelo picks up not long after the striking conclusion of the first novel. Consuelo is enjoying a brilliant singing career. She befriends Princess Amelia of Prussia, the woman adored by Baron von Trenck, whose acquaintance Consuelo...
The Bachelors' Club - Israel Zangwill
The Bachelors' Club - Israel Zangwill
- Author: Israel Zangwill
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
The Bachelors' Club is a sanctuary for an elite group of London's unmarried men to gather. To qualify as a Bachelor, each had to undergo a strict background check to ensure that they were not only unmarried, but a zealot in the movement that held...
Alice Dugdale - Anthony Trollope
Alice Dugdale - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1800 -1900
An ordinary village girl's plans for the future with her long-standing beau are threatened when he is seen to be an attractive prospect by a local noble family Trollope's novella works through the consequences with typical affection and sensitivity....
The Begum's Fortune - Jules Verne
The Begum's Fortune - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Science Fiction / War & Military Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
A novel with some utopian elements, but primarily dystopian. A French doctor and a German professor both inherit a vast fortune as descendants of a French soldier who married the rich widow of an Indian prince. They both decide to go to America and...
The Mystery of Mrs. Blencarrow - Margaret O. Oliphant
The Mystery of Mrs. Blencarrow - Margaret O. Oliphant
- Author: Margaret O. Oliphant
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
The location is the English Lake District and the characters very ordinary people. Mrs. Blencarrow is a widow with five children and control of her late husband's small estate. She is eminently respectable and is involved with the usual round of tea...
The Bagpipers - George SAND
The Bagpipers - George SAND
- Author: George SAND
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
A story of two sets of lovers and the development of their relationships, set in rural France in the mid 19th century. - Summary by PeterTucker...
The Unclassed - George Gissing
The Unclassed - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
The Unclassed tells the story of two friends who are aspiring authors living in London in the late 19th century. Both of them fall in love. Both believe in social change but do not know how to bring it about. Both are skeptical about the values of...
The Northern Spy - J. Thomas Warren
The Northern Spy - J. Thomas Warren
- Author: J. Thomas Warren
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
The Northern Spy, written in the 1800s, is a lively story about a Union soldier who infiltrates a Confederate battalion in order to aid in the conquering of South Carolina. The novel was very popular, so much so that allegedly Northern Spy apples...
Will Warburton - George Gissing
Will Warburton - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Published two years after Gissing's death, this novel tells the story of Will Warburton. Will loses his money in a failed business venture and has to come to terms with his new job as a grocer. This is a book about acceptance, love, and, of course,...
For Love and Life Vol. 1 - Margaret O. Oliphant
For Love and Life Vol. 1 - Margaret O. Oliphant
- Author: Margaret O. Oliphant
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
“The device on his shield was a young oak tree pulled up by the roots, with the Spanish word Desdichado, signifying Disinherited.” The novel opens with Mrs. Murray walking with two of her grandchildren along the banks of Loch Arroch in the Scottish...
There and Back - George MacDonald
There and Back - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900 / Christian Fiction
An unscrupulous baronet is left a widower and couldn't care less what happens to his ugly newborn heir. But when an icy stepmother moves in and the child is stolen away by his loving nurse, what can unfold but a riveting account of the years of...
The Fortune Hunter: A Novel of New York Society - Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
The Fortune Hunter: A Novel of New York Society - Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
- Author: Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Mowatt wrote The Fortune Hunter to be submitted to a contest held by the New World newspaper. (The novel won the $100 prize.) Contest rules dictated that the title of the work, that the setting had to be New York, and that the text had to be...
Cousin Maude - Mary Jane HOLMES
Cousin Maude - Mary Jane HOLMES
- Author: Mary Jane HOLMES
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
When Matilda's husband James dies, she marries rich Dr. Kennedy thinking he will provide a good home for her daughter Maude. However, the doctor is a miser and assumes that Matty will be his housekeeper. They have a little boy who is crippled and...
St. George and St. Michael, Volume 3 - George MacDonald
St. George and St. Michael, Volume 3 - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance / Published 1800 -1900
’St. George and St. Michael’ is a little-known historical romance telling the story of a young couple who find themselves on opposing sides during the tumultuous years of the English Civil Wars. Volume 3 completes the series. Tensions are rising...
Eight Cousins (Version 3) - Louisa May Alcott
Eight Cousins (Version 3) - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1800 -1900
Eight Cousins, or The Aunt-Hill was published in 1875 by American novelist Louisa May Alcott. It is the story of Rose Campbell, a lonely and sickly girl who has been recently orphaned and must now reside with her maiden great aunts, who are the...
Away in the Wilderness - R. M. Ballantyne
Away in the Wilderness - R. M. Ballantyne
- Author: R. M. Ballantyne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Jasper Derry was on a mission. He had left the northern wilderness a few years earlier when he had worked for the Hudson's Bay Company, but in doing so he had also left some unfinished business behind. Now he is on his quest to complete those...
The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax - Harriet Parr
The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax - Harriet Parr
- Author: Harriet Parr
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
This is the coming of age story of Bessie Fairfax. A story about a girl who learns to see the world is it is and navigate in it. This is a vivid and charming story by Harriet Parr, who wrote under the pseudonym of Holm Lee. She was a best selling...
Miss Meredith - Amy Levy
Miss Meredith - Amy Levy
- Author: Amy Levy
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Miss Meredith is not the most talented of her sisters. In fact, she considers herself the typical of them. She has the adventure of a life time when she is offered the post of governess to an ancient noble Italian family. Things become even more...
Fairy Fingers - Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
Fairy Fingers - Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
- Author: Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Madelaine is the poor cousin of the aristocratic de Gramont family in France of the 1850’s. She is cherished by the beautiful young Bertha and secretly the beloved of the handsome Maurice, but she is barely tolerated by the haughty old countess....
Arabella Stuart - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
Arabella Stuart - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Author: George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Lady Arabella Stuart was an English noblewoman at the beginning of the seventeenth century. At one time considered to be a possible successor to Elizabeth I, the crown eventually went to her cousin, the tyrannical James I. Our story begins in 1603,...
The Cloak (Version 2) - Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
The Cloak (Version 2) - Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
- Author: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900 / Single Author Collections
The Cloak or the Overcoat as in some translations, is a story by Ukrainian-born Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story and its author have had great influence on Russian literature, as expressed in a quote attributed to Fyodor...
A Strange World - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A Strange World - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
A compelling story by one of the most prolific authors of the Victorian "sensational novel" serves up the perfect blend of murder, greed, madness, secrets and romance. The characters interlace throughout, and are as always interesting and...
The Last Lords of Gardonal - William Gilbert
The Last Lords of Gardonal - William Gilbert
- Author: William Gilbert
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Two brothers, born into money and power, are as cruel as the feudal age in which they live. But when the oppressed villagers seek help from a sorcerer, the wicked barons just may have met their match… This tale features a relatively early example in...
Our Street - William Makepeace Thackeray
Our Street - William Makepeace Thackeray
- Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Written as an autobiographical sketch of a Mr. M.A. Titmarsh, Our Street is a tongue-in-cheek look at English society and the characters who live in the street where he finds himself. It is the second of five "Christmas Books" written by Thackeray...
A Daughter of Today - Sara Jeannette Duncan
A Daughter of Today - Sara Jeannette Duncan
- Author: Sara Jeannette Duncan
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
The Canadian author Sara Jeannette Duncan (aka Mrs. Everard Cotes) is today best known for her 1904 novel of Ontario life, “The Imperialist” (also available as a LibriVox recording), but in Duncan’s own time readers were impressed more by her other...
