Published 1800 -1900
The Mute Singer
Read by Kelly S. Taylor
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…
Paul Clifford
Read by Jim Locke
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Most men who with some earnestness of mind examine into the mysteries of our social state will perhaps pass through that stage of self-educa…
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…
The Ball at Sceaux
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Honoré de Balzac
The novella “The Ball at Sceaux” is part of Balzac’s great life work — the expansive fiction series titled “The Human Comedy.” The central c…
Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life
Read by Anne Erickson
Margaret O. Oliphant
This volume completes the story of Hester and her struggle to find her way in the family she belongs to by birth but not by upbringing. The …
The Country of the Pointed Firs
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Sarah Orne Jewett
The Country of the Pointed Firs is an 1896 book by American writer Sarah Orne Jewett. It is considered by some literary critics to be her fi…
The Feather
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Ford Madox Ford
The headstrong Princess Ernalie is one day carried off from her kingdom by an eagle. Unable to return home because of impassable terrain, sh…
The Flower of the Family
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Elizabeth Prentiss
With the exception of "Stepping Heavenward," no one of Mrs. Prentiss' larger books has had so wide a circulation, both at home and…
The Long Vacation
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Charlotte Mary Yonge
The Long Vacation tells the story of the Underwood family dynamics over years of growth, change and interactions. - Summary by Deon Gines
Catherine's Coquetries
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Camille Debans
Catherine is a beautiful woman, and despite being a respectable married woman, enjoys matchmaking, flirting and mischief. The tale is set in…
The Duke's Children
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Anthony Trollope
The Duke's Children is the sixth and last novel of The Palliser Series in which the story of the Duke of Omnium's family changes and growing…
The Wing of Azrael
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Mona Caird
Mona Caird, a British writer and feminist, criticized in numerous non-fiction writings the state of marriage as it existed in her time. Her …
Impressions of Theophrastus Such
Read by Mark Leder
George Eliot
The ruminations and reflections of a minor scholar. - Summary by Mark Leder
The Wing of Azrael
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Mona Caird
Mona Caird, a British writer and feminist, criticized in numerous non-fiction writings the state of marriage as it existed in her time. Her …
Forrest House
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Mary Jane Holmes
His father wanted James Everard Forrest to marry Beatrice Belknap, but instead he secretly marries Josephine Fleming, which he almost immedi…
David Copperfield
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Charles Dickens
David's journey from childhood to his adult life with all the friends and enemies he meets on the way - Summary by Brad J Filippone
The Wandering Jew
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Eugène Sue
The Wandering Jew and his sister Hérodiade are condemned to wander the earth and protect the Rennepont family from all harm, until th…
The Dominion
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Ralph Centennius
First published as a booklet in 1883, "The Dominion in 1983" describes the author's ideas of what life in Canada is like one hundr…