Published 1800 -1900
The Queen of Hearts
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Wilkie Collins
The elderly Brothers Owen, Morgan and Griffith live a quiet, retired life in the countryside, which is turned upside-down by Griffith's ward…
Uncle's Dream
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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. F…
Fabiola or The Church of the Catacombs
Read by Maria Therese
Cardinal Nicholas Patrick Wiseman
This historical novel is set in Rome in the early 4th century AD, during the time of the cruel persecution of Christians under the Emperor D…
The Girl with the Golden Eyes
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Honoré de Balzac
Listeners who like to plunge straight into a story would do well to skip the lengthy preamble. Here, Balzac the virtuoso satirist depicts th…
The Kreutzer Sonata
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Leo Tolstoy
Publication of The Kreutzer Sonata in 1889 was a significant intellectual event worldwide. Censored in Russia, it set off an explosive debat…
The Woman Who Did
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Grant Allen
Most times, especially in the time when this book was written (1895), it is just as nature and society would wish: a man and woman "fal…
L'Assommoir
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Émile Zola
Émile François Zola (French pronunciation: [emil zɔˈla]) (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, …
The Lifted Veil (Version 2)
Read by Kirsten Wever
George Eliot
George Eliot’s 1859 novella, The Lifted Veil, departs radically from the grounded realism of her longer and better known works, such as Midd…
The Wheel of Time
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Henry James
Fanny Knocker is a very, very plain young woman. She is introduced to the extremely handsome, thoroughly impoverished, younger son of an old…
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
Read by Hannah Mary
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
Read by Ruth Golding
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)
Read by Peter John Keeble
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
Read by Alisson Veldhuis
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…