Published 1800 -1900
A Rough Shaking
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George MacDonald
Clare was a wanderer. Orphaned by an earthquake when too young to even remember his full name, his childhood was a succession of challenges …
An American Politician
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Francis Marion Crawford
In 1880’s Boston, Mass. the good life is lead according to all the Victorian era societal rules of the New World. Political ambitions and th…
A Daughter of Today
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Sara Jeannette Duncan
The Canadian author Sara Jeannette Duncan (aka Mrs. Everard Cotes) is today best known for her 1904 novel of Ontario life, “The Imperialist”…
Katharine Lauderdale Volume 2
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Francis Marion Crawford
Katherine Lauderdale would be a New York society belle, if it were not for her miserly father. Her older sister has escaped the unhappy pare…
Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication, Story 2 (Dramatic Reading)
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R. M. Ballantyne
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(No…
Will Warburton
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George Gissing
Published two years after Gissing's death, this novel tells the story of Will Warburton. Will loses his money in a failed business venture a…
The Chouans (version 2)
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Honoré de Balzac
“The Chouans” (1829) was the first novel published under Balzac’s own name (rather than a pen-name). It became the first book in the great w…
The Primrose Path
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Bram Stoker
This 1875 serialised novella appeared in The Shamrock magazine in 5 installments. It is Bram Stoker's first novel, being published 22 years …
Consuelo
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George Sand
This roman à clef follows the musical adventures of Consuelo, a gifted singer under the tutelage of the composer Nicola Porpora. Afte…
The Heavenly Twins
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Sarah Grand
First published in 1893, this novel came to question many subjects which were considered taboo. Through a few interconnected plots and sub p…
A Whisper in the Dark
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Louisa May Alcott
A Whisper in the Dark was published anonymously in 1877 and again in 1889, this time attributed to Louisa May Alcott, along with A Modern Me…
Sunshine and Snow
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Harold Bindloss
A harrowing and dramatic story of four siblings from Scotland who are poor and orphaned. The eldest brother, Arthur, is guardian to his two …
Arabella Stuart
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George Payne Rainsford James
Lady Arabella Stuart was an English noblewoman at the beginning of the seventeenth century. At one time considered to be a possible successo…
David Poindexter's Disappearance and Other Tales
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Julian Hawthorne
Julian Hawthorne, son of famed author Nathaniel Hawthorne, brings together a collection of stories of tragedy, lost love and occasionally of…
The Caxtons: A Family Picture
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The quiet country life of the Caxton family is interrupted by a visit to London. There the son, Pisistratus, is offered the position of secr…
The Duchess of Langeais
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Honoré de Balzac
“The Duchess of Langeais” (1834) is part of Balzac’s great life’s work, the sprawling novel series called “The Human Comedy.” This novel is …
The Mute Singer, a Novel
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Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
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 sing…
A Woman Of Yesterday
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Caroline Atwater Mason
Anna is the daughter of a clergyman in a small town in Vermont. She is very happy with her lot. But when she goes to nurse a woman in the bi…
A Romance of the Moors
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Mona Caird
Dick Coverdale is secretly betrothed to his neighbor, the beautiful Bessie Saunders. When a visitor to the area named Margaret Ellwood appea…
The Forest Lovers
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Maurice Henry Hewlett
My story will take you into times and spaces alike rude and uncivil. Blood will be spilt, virgins suffer distresses; the horn will sound thr…