Published 1800 -1900
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…
Die schwarze Spinne
Read by Hans Hafen
Jeremias Gotthelf
Die schwarze Spinne ist eine Novelle von Jeremias Gotthelf aus dem Jahr 1842. Eingebettet in eine idyllisch angelegte Rahmenerzählung w…
Anna Karenina
Read by Eva K.
Leo Tolstoy
Der Roman aus der Epoche des russischen Realismus gibt einen tiefgründigen Einblick in das Leben und die Lebensanschauungen der russisc…
Белые ночи (White Nights)
Read by Yakovlev Valery
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Belye Nochi ”White Nights” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. In this small story (though author states this is a sentimental novel) author describes in…
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…
Der Weihnachtsabend (Eine Geistergeschichte)
Read by Elli
Charles Dickens
1843 verfasste Dickens den Roman A Christmas Carol (deutscher Titel: Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte) in der Absicht, die Aufmerksamkeit des Leser…
El crimen de Gramercy Park
Read by Victor Villarraza
Anna Katharine Green
Obra maestra de la «madre de la novela de detectives», Anna Katharine Green, conocida como la Agatha Christie victoriana. El mis…
La Señora de Bovary
Read by Victor Villarraza
Gustave Flaubert
La soñadora Emma, una joven de provincias casada con Charles Bovary, quien la ama pero es incapaz de comprenderla y satisfacerla, bus…
La Señal de los Cuatro
Read by Victor Villarraza
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
La petición de una mujer a Sherlock Holmes para acompañarla a visitar a un hombre, y la muerte del hermano del mismo, lo lleva…
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…
Kleider machen Leute
Read by Stefan Schmelz
Gottfried Keller
Die Erzählung “Kleider machen Leute” erschien 1874 im zweiten Band des Novellenzyklus “Die Leute von Seldwyla”.Ein arbeitsloser Schneid…
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…
La Dama de las Camelias
Read by Victor Villarraza
Alexandre Dumas
Armando Duval, un joven de la alta sociedad parisiense, se enamora perdidamente de Margarita Gautier, reconocida cortesana, quien correspond…
Silas Marner
Read by rachelellen
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
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
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…
Bartleby the Scrivener, A Story of Wall Street.
Read by Bob Tassinari
Herman Melville
"Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Pu…