Published 1800 -1900
A Daughter of Today
Read by Bruce Pirie
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”…
Mauprat
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George Sand
Bernard Mauprat was raised by lawless brigands and knows no other way of life until age 17. Then everything changes for him when his cousin …
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…
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…
Totenmesse
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Stanisław Przybyszewski
Sprachlich kunstvoll und ausdrucksstark gestaltete, wortgewaltige Analyse der menschlichen Psyche. Das Werk inspirierte den norwegischen Mal…
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 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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 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…