Published 1800 -1900
Taken at the Flood
Read by Celine Major
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Brought up by a parish schoolmaster with a hidden past, Sylvia Carew dreams of a future devoid of poverty. Will she be faithful to the man s…
Over the Hills and Far Away: A Story of New Zealand
Read by Lewis Fletcher
Charlotte Evans
One of the very first New Zealand novels, Over the Hills and Far Away is a heavily romanticised tale of a woman's journey from England to Ot…
The Compleat Bachelor
Read by David Wales
Oliver Onions
George Oliver Onions was a British writer of story collections and over 40 novels…. Onions wrote detective fiction, social comedy, historica…
One Thing Needful
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Can starving children be grateful for the education they receive if, when they ask for food, rich people give them a stone? This is the ques…
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 1 (version 2)
Read by Celine Major
Eugène Sue
Rodolphe is the Grand Duke of Gerolstein, a fictional kingdom of Germany, but disguises himself as a Parisian worker. He can speak in the se…
A Lear of the Steppes, etc.
Read by Lee Smalley
Ivan Turgenev
This book contains three novellas by one of the major writers of Russian literature. The first, A LEAR OF THE STEPPES, is a brilliant re-ima…
Cradock Nowell Vol. 1
Read by Lynne T
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Cradock Nowell: a Tale of the New Forest is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1866. Set in the New Forest and in London, …
Christmas Stories from French and Spanish Writers
Read by David Wales
Pedro Antonio De Alarcón Y Ariza
Fifteen short stories by Antoinette Ogden from French and Spanish writers of many times. - Summary by david wales
Confidence
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Henry James
This light and somewhat awkward comedy centers on artist Bernard Longueville, scientist Gordon Wright, and the sometimes inscrutable heroine…
The Half-Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier
Read by Chuck Williamson
Walt Whitman
Published anonymously in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (with an earlier draft also appearing as “Arrow-Tip” in The Aristidean), The Half-Breed: A…
Lost for Love
Read by Celine Major
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
EXCERPT: In all things that he did, Flora's well-being was the doctor's paramount consideration. He brought pleasant people to his house; me…
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 3
Read by Celine Major
Eugène Sue
Rodolphe, who is really the Grand Duke of Gerolstein (a fictional kingdom of Germany) but is disguised as a Parisian worker. He can speak in…
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2)
Read by Linda Olsen Fitak
Edwin Abbott Abbott
This is a satirical novel written by Edwin A. Abbott, first published in 1884. Abbott uses a two-dimensional world, with himself as the prot…
The Spirit of Sweetwater
Read by Roger Melin
Hamlin Garland
Clement had unwittingly succeeded where others had failed at mining in the western Colorado mountains. Now he found himself wanting to share…
Mildred at Roselands
Read by Amy
Martha Finley
In order to recover her health, Mildred Keith goes to visit her mother's extended family, the Dinsmores, in the South. Mildred makes new fri…
John Halifax, Gentleman
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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
This novel, published in 1856, was one of the popular and beloved novels in the Victorian era. It is told in the first person by Phineas Fle…
The Statement of Stella Maberly
Read by Anne Fletcher
F. Anstey
From childhood Stella Maberly has been violently wilful and jealous, yet certain of her own superiority. She can be loving and friendly, but…
Kit and Kitty
Read by Keith Salis
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Kit Orchardson, an apprentice produce grower in Sunbury, England describes for us a time in his youth in which he fell in love with Kitty, a…
God's fool
Read by Anna Simon
Maarten Maartens
At the age of nine, Elias Lossell becomes deaf and blind from an accident. Communication with him becomes difficult, and mentally, he never …
Asphodel
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Like the Asphodel, a plant which grows far away from England, Daphne grows far away from home. In her first chance of freedom, at the age of…