Published 1800 -1900
L'Assommoir (la taberna)
Read by Mongope
Émile Zola
Gervasia es planchadora y amante del sombrerero Lantier con quien tiene dos hijos, pero Lantier es vago y vividor lo que hace que Gervasia t…
Away in the Wilderness
Read by Roger Melin
R. M. Ballantyne
Jasper Derry was on a mission. He had left the northern wilderness a few years earlier when he had worked for the Hudson's Bay Company, but …
Dombey and Son (version 2)
Read by Cynthia Lyons (1946-2011)
Charles Dickens
Dombey and Son is a novel by the Victorian author Charles Dickens. The story concerns Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company…
El crimen de Lord Arturo Savile
Read by Victor Villarraza
Oscar Wilde
En "El crimen de Lord Arthur Saville" se nos revela el Wilde en estado puro, el observador más irónico y despiadado …
The Egoist
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George Meredith
The Egoist is a tragi-comical novel by George Meredith published in 1879. The novel recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patte…
Dodo: A Detail of the Day
Read by Anna Simon
E. F. Benson
Fashionably controversial bestseller at the time of appearance (1893), portraying London "society" in the Fin de Siècle. Do…
Le Nez d’un notaire
Read by Didier
Edmond About
Un brillant notaire parisien, Alfred L'Ambert, épris d’une danseuse de ballet de quatorze ans est provoqué en duel par son riv…
The Pretty Sister Of José
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Pepita would rather become a witch than a wife. She's seen too many women, including her mother, wither away at their husband's hands. Popul…
The Cloak (Version 2)
Read by Phil Chenevert
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
The Cloak or the Overcoat as in some translations, is a story by Ukrainian-born Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story a…
Alice Dugdale
Read by Anthony Ogus
Anthony Trollope
An ordinary village girl's plans for the future with her long-standing beau are threatened when he is seen to be an attractive prospect by a…
A Daughter Of The Vine
Read by Lynne T
Gertrude Atherton
We are introduced to Englishman Dudley Thorpe on the evening of his arrival in California. At a ball, he is introduced to several belles, in…
The Father
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August Strindberg
The Father is a naturalistic drama by Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The central conflict is between the Captain and his wife Laura a…
Gobseck
Read by James E. Carson
Honoré de Balzac
Part of the La Comedie Humane and something of a sequence to Balzac's Father Goriot, the short book's title is the name of the pawn broker/m…
Wanted - A Pedigree
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Martha Finley
Nina Clemmens was adopted as a baby. When her parents die, she goes to live with her religious aunt, who mistreats her because of her temper…
Rudin
Read by Lee Smalley
Ivan Turgenev
Rudin is the first and perhaps least known novel by Ivan Turgenev, a famous Russian writer best known for his short stories and the novel Fa…
The Three Clerks
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Anthony Trollope
The Three Clerks was Trollope’s sixth novel and was written mostly in railway carriages, since his work for the Post Office still entailed a…
The Country House
Read by Bob R
John Galsworthy
In “The Country House”, John Galsworthy explores many of the themes he would later expand upon in his better known, nine-novel, “The Forsyth…
White Rose of Weary Leaf
Read by Lisa Reichert
Violet Hunt
Isobel Violet Hunt was a British author renowned for her literary salons, which hosted such notables as H.G. Wells, D.H. Laurence, Henry Jam…
A House of Gentlefolk
Read by tovarisch
Ivan Turgenev
The novel titled in Russian "Дворянское Гнездо" (Dvoryanskoye Gnezdo, sometimes translated as Home of the Gentry, A Nest of the Ge…
Mollie's Prince
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Rosa Nouchette Carey
Mr. Ward is a failing artist. His two daughters, Mollie and Waveney, are very close. However when the financial situation becomes insufferab…