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Jack Sheppard
Read by Mark Leder
William Harrison Ainsworth
The fictionalized exploits of the very real English outlaw, Jack Sheppard. Published in 1839, this Newgate novel outsold its rival, Dickens'…
X Y Z: A Detective Story
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Anna Katharine Green
"X Y Z: A Detective Story" by Anna Katharine Green is a crime fiction novel written in the late 19th century. This engaging narrat…
The Rush for the Spoil
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Émile Zola
Book Two of Zola's 20-volume Rougon-Macquart Cycle. "The Rush for the Spoil" ("La Curee") concerns Aristide Siccard (on…
Lady Audley's Secret
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
It is June 1857, and young and beautiful Lucy Graham is about to marry Sir Michael Audley. But who exactly IS Lucy, that's what Sir Michael…
The Nature of a Crime
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Joseph Conrad
The first of three collaborations between Conrad and Ford. On the verge of being found out in a matter of breach of fiduciary trust and fina…
The Fifth Queen Crowned
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Ford Madox Ford
This is the final book of Ford's The Fifth Queen trilogy, a series of historical novels presenting a fictionalized version of the life of Ka…
The Wrong Twin
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Harry Leon Wilson
With their father Dave, a classic rolling stone, out on the road, twins Merle and Wilbur lead a haphazard life. But at least they have each…
The Conquest of Plassans
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Émile Zola
The placid Provencal lives of Francois Mouret and his wife Marthe are irreparably impacted by the arrival of a suspicious cleric, Abbe Fauja…
Petticoat Government
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Frances Milton Trollope
The adventures--in society, in love--of Judith Maitland conclude.
The Fat and the Thin
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Émile Zola
Florent, an escaped political prisoner, finds shelter with his half-brother Quenu, and his wife Lisa Quenu (a Macquart). They get him a job…
Abbe Mouret's Transgression
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Émile Zola
This, the fifth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart Cycle, serves effectively as a sequel to "The Conquest of Plassans". Serge Mouret…
The Sense of the Past
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Henry James
Ralph Pendrel of New York City is bequested an 18th century house in London. He travels back in time and meets an ancestor of the same name…
His Excellency Eugene Rougon
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Émile Zola
Here, in Zola's sixth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, we get to know Pierre and Felicite's eldest son, Eugene. He's the son that made …
A Love Episode
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Émile Zola
"A Love Episode" ("Une Page d'Amour") is the eighth volume in Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle of novels. It deals with Hel…
Nana
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Émile Zola
Anna Coupeau, known as Nana, makes her debut in 1867 at the Theatre de Varietes, and is an instant sensation. It is as a prostitute, howeve…
L'Assommoir
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Émile Zola
Gervaise Macquart runs away to Paris with Lantier, to work as a washerwoman. Lantier abandons her and their two sons. She then marries the…
Impressions of Theophrastus Such
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George Eliot
The ruminations and reflections of a minor scholar. - Summary by Mark Leder
The Time Machine
Read by Mark Nelson
H. G. Wells
H.G. Wells' classic science fiction-fantasy story, in which a scientist known only as “The Time Traveller” tells the tale of his journey to …
The City at World's End
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Edmond Hamilton
A surprise nuclear war may cause the End of the World, but not the way anyone could have imagined. A classic science fiction tale from Galax…
My Man Jeeves
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P. G. Wodehouse
Bertram Wooster is an English gentleman living in New York, who seems to get himself into all sorts of jams. It’s up to his manservant Jeeve…