Published 1800 -1900
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 2)
Read by Ruth Golding
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A collection of twelve short stories featuring Conan Doyle's legendary detective, originally published as single stories in Strand Magazine …
The Brothers Karamazov
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Братья Карамазовы) is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered …
Lady Audley's Secret
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Mary Elizabeth Braddon's first novel, Lady Audley's Secret, was one of the most popular English novels of its day. Published serially in 186…
The Count of Monte Cristo
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Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, …
A Study In Scarlet (Version 6)
Read by David Clarke
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new characters, "consulting detectiv…
The Idiot (Part 01 and 02)
Read by Martin Geeson
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Ru…
Madame Bovary
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Gustave Flaubert
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 mea…
A Christmas Carol (version 08 dramatic reading)
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Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells …
Notes from the Underground
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short masterpiece about a ranting, slightly mad civil servant. The stylistic inventiveness, and the insights into the a…
David Copperfield
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Charles Dickens
"David Copperfield" or "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blun…
The Awakening (version 2)
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin's 1899 novella The Awakening is about the personal, sexual, and artistic awakening of a young wife and mother, Edna Pontellier. …
The Old Curiosity Shop
Read by Euthymius
Charles Dickens
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 cur…
A House to Let
Read by Ruth Golding
Charles Dickens
A House to Let is a short story originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine. Each of the cont…
Ruth
Read by Cynthia Lyons (1946-2011)
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The book is a social novel, dealing with Victorian views about sin and illegitimacy. It is a surprisingly compassionate portrayal of a 'fall…
Sense and Sensibility (version 2)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Jane Austen
This is a story of the English moneyed class and its eternal struggle for creating “sense and sensibility” in its world. A potential marriag…
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (version 2)
Read by Alisson Veldhuis
Thomas Hardy
Tess of the d'Urbervilles subtitled, "A Pure Woman," is the story of a young working woman named Tess Durbeyfield who is sent by h…
The Bishop's Secret
Read by David Wales
Fergus Hume
Bishop Pendle is the Church of England bishop in a small fictitious English cathedral town. Several years into his work, he receives a visit…
A Christmas Carol (version 06)
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Charles Dickens
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 l…
Silas Marner
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George Eliot
Silas Marner (originally published in 1861): Betrayed by a beloved friend and accused of a crime he didn’t commit, awkward Silas Marner is e…
Middlemarch
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George Eliot
The book examines the role of education in the lives of the characters and how such education and study has affected the characters. Rosamon…