Published 1800 -1900
A Dark Night's Work
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Love, murder and class commentary in Mrs Gaskell's usual brilliant style! This novel was originally serialised and published by Charles Dick…
The Way of All Flesh
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Samuel Butler
The Way of All Flesh (1903) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler which attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between 1873 an…
The Power of Words
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L. E. L.
Ralph the Heir
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Anthony Trollope
As usual, Trollope creates a nice variety of characters of different English classes, sentiments and positions. The primary themes are the i…
The Dead Alive
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Wilkie Collins
Ill feelings exist between the Meadowcroft sons and John Jago, the foreman of the Meadowcroft estate. Then, John Jago disappears, and a body…
Far Above Rubies
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George MacDonald
Proverbs 31:10-11 says, "Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust i…
The Riddle Ring
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Justin Mccarthy
This romantic mystery - or mysterious romance - tells the tale of jilted lover, Jim Conrad, who discovers an unusual gold ring while on a vi…
Marion Fay
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Anthony Trollope
Marion Fay (1882) offers a pair of romances, each involving a match between one titled personage and one commoner. The misalliances lead to …
Work: A Story of Experience
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Louisa May Alcott
It is one of "several nineteenth-century novels [which] uncovers the changes in women's work in the new industrial era, as well as the …
Oliver Twist (version 3)
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Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist was published in 1838 as a three volume book. The novel was the first of Dickens' works to realistically portray the degradatio…
The Last Day of a Condemned
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Victor Hugo
A man who has been condemned to death writes down his cogitations, feelings and fears while he is waiting for his execution. He does not bet…
Lilian
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Arnold Bennett
Lilian works in a typewriting office owned by Felix Grig, a middle-aged man of means. The office is run by his spinster sister, Miss Grig, w…
A Christmas Carol (version 07)
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Charles Dickens
The classic Christmas story of an old miser and the astonishing effect a series of ghostly visitors has upon him. This version has been rea…
Charlotte's Inheritance
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A lesser known novel by the sensational English novelist, Charlotte's Inheritance opens in Paris in a dilapidated boarding house let to stud…
The Liar
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Henry James
A successful painter reconnects with the woman he once loved during a visit to an English country house. His surprise is great when he learn…
The Romance of a Christmas Card
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
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 vill…
Joshua
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Georg Ebers
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 Egy…
Sylvie and Bruno
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Lewis Carroll
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 w…
1900 or The Last President
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Ingersoll Lockwood
The year is 1896. The United States is rocked by the election of an unlikely president. On election night, riots broke out in the streets …
From Jest to Earnest
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Edward P. Roe
As a practical joke at a house party, a young and beautiful socialite tries to make a fool out of a visiting young missionary to amuse her f…