Published 1800 -1900
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
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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…
The Bachelors' Club
Read by Keith Salis
Israel Zangwill
The Bachelors' Club is a sanctuary for an elite group of London's unmarried men to gather. To qualify as a Bachelor, each had to undergo a s…
The Unclassed
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George Gissing
The Unclassed tells the story of two friends who are aspiring authors living in London in the late 19th century. Both of them fall in love. …
A Vanished Hand
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Sarah Doudney
Memories haunt Elsie Kilner at every turn. Kicked out of her family home, she finds a new abode in which she finds fragments of a diary. It …
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 2
Read by Celine Major
Eugène Sue
Rodolphe, is really the Grand Duke of Gerolstein (a fictional kingdom of Germany) but is disguised as a Parisian worker. He can speak in ar…
The Untempered Wind
Read by Bruce Pirie
Joanna E. Wood
Upon publication of “The Untempered Wind” in 1894, Joanna Wood quickly rose to international prominence, becoming in the next few years the …
The Begum's Fortune
Read by Kate Follis
Jules Verne
A novel with some utopian elements, but primarily dystopian. A French doctor and a German professor both inherit a vast fortune as descendan…
The Black Monk
Read by Daniel Davison
Anton Chekhov
Aspiring academic Andrei Kovrin, while summering in the countryside per the advice of a physician, is haunted by the apparition of a black m…
Fritz to the Front
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Edward L. Wheeler
Fritz to the Front is the story of a Dutch tramp who wants to be a detective, and is an expert at ventriloquism. The story opens with a myst…
Taking the Bastile
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Alexandre Dumas
Pitou lost his mother when he was small. He was raised by a stern aunt who did not really love him. He starts knowing the world by going to …
The Mikado, Or The Town Of Titipu
Read by David Wales
W. S. Gilbert
In this recording, one person reads the entire play, all parts, including the stage directions. Even without the support of Arthur Sullivan…
Armand Durand
Read by Bruce Pirie
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
Armand Durand, published in 1868, was written by Rosanna Leprohon, an English-speaker with an insider’s knowledge of French Canada, thanks t…
The Mystery of Mrs. Blencarrow
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Margaret O. Oliphant
The location is the English Lake District and the characters very ordinary people. Mrs. Blencarrow is a widow with five children and control…
Pierre, or The Ambiguities
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Herman Melville
The life of a young heir, Pierre is altered when he meets a mysterious woman who claims to be his sister.