Category Archives: Published 1800 – 1900
Freaks on the Fells: Three Months’ Rustication, Story 2 (Dramatic Reading)
Author(s): R. M. Ballantyne Join us in a journey of two young men in search...
Cecilia de Noël
Author(s): Mary Elizabeth Hawker Cecilia de Noël is an original and cleverly told ghost story,...
The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl (Version 2)
Author(s): Adelbert von Chamisso In Peter Schlemihl, the luckless hero enters into a deal with...
White People
Author(s): Frances Hodgson Burnett A young girl living in remote Scotland discovers she has a...
Sylvie and Bruno
Author(s): Lewis Carroll The novel has two main plots; one set in the real world...
The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain (version 2)
Author(s): Charles Dickens The last of Dickens’ Christmas novellas (1848), The Haunted Man and the...
Wyllard’s Weird
Author(s): Mary Elizabeth Braddon A novel written in three volumes. In the golden age of...
White Dove
Author(s): William John Locke Sylvester Lanyon, a doctor, is mourning the early death of his...
Ursula
Author(s): Honoré de Balzac “Ursula,” first published in French in 1841 as “Ursule Mirouët,” is...
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (version 2)
Author(s): Harriet Beecher Stowe This is a deeply moving novel centered around the lives of...
Vanished Hand
Author(s): Sarah Doudney Memories haunt Elsie Kilner at every turn. Kicked out of her family...
Villette (version 3)
Author(s): Charlotte Brontë A quiet, self-reliant, intelligent, 23-year-old woman, Lucy has, as Miss Ginevra Fanshawe...
Wanted – A Pedigree
Author(s): Martha Finley Nina Clemmens was adopted as a baby. When her parents die, she...
Whisper in the Dark
Author(s): Louisa May Alcott A Whisper in the Dark was published anonymously in 1877 and...
Uncle’s Dream
Author(s): Fyodor Dostoyevsky Uncle’s Dream by Fyodor Dostoyevsky was written following his five year exile...
Wives and Daughters
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell If you like Jane Austen, you will probably like this book!...
White Rose of Weary Leaf
Author(s): Violet Hunt Isobel Violet Hunt was a British author renowned for her literary salons,...
Work: A Story of Experience
Author(s): Louisa May Alcott It is one of “several nineteenth-century novels [which] uncovers the changes...
The Smuggler
Author(s): George Payne Rainsford James The county of Kent, situated in the south eastern corner...
The Trumpet Major
Author(s): Thomas Hardy Our heroine, Anne Garland, lives quietly in a rural community deep in...
The Spirit of Sweetwater
Author(s): Hamlin Garland Clement had unwittingly succeeded where others had failed at mining in the...
The Woman Who Did
Author(s): Grant Allen Most times, especially in the time when this book was written (1895),...
The Silver Bullet
Author(s): Fergus Hume Dr. Jim Herrick and his friend Robin are on a walking tour...
The Unclassed
Author(s): George Gissing The Unclassed tells the story of two friends who are aspiring authors...
Tom Brown at Oxford
Author(s): Thomas Hughes This sequel to Tom Brown’s School Days follows Tom to Oxford, where...
The Unknown Masterpiece
Author(s): Honoré de Balzac “The Unknown Masterpiece” (“Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu”) is a novella by Honoré...
Thirty Years Since; or, The Ruined Family
Author(s): George Payne Rainsford James Two young men share a carriage from London to the...
The Two Heroines of Plumplington
Author(s): Anthony Trollope In the small English Town of Plumplington the daughter of a brewer...
The Small House at Allington (version 2)
Author(s): Anthony Trollope The Small House at Allington concerns the widowed Mrs.Dale, her daughters Isabella...
Tracy Diamonds
Author(s): Mary Jane Holmes In Part 1 of The Tracy Diamonds, wealthy, notorious flirt, Helen...