Category Archives: Published 1800 – 1900

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...

The Wing of Azrael, Volume 2

Author(s): Mona Caird Mona Caird, a British writer and feminist, criticized in numerous non-fiction writings...

The Three Clerks

Author(s): Anthony Trollope The Three Clerks was Trollope’s sixth novel and was written mostly in...

The Wing of Azrael, Volume 1

Author(s): Mona Caird Mona Caird, a British writer and feminist, criticized in numerous non-fiction writings...

The Two Brothers

Author(s): Honoré de Balzac “The Two Brothers” (1842) is part of Balzac’s great life work,...

The Wheel of Time

Author(s): Henry James Fanny Knocker is a very, very plain young woman. She is introduced...

The Untempered Wind

Author(s): Joanna E. Wood Upon publication of “The Untempered Wind” in 1894, Joanna Wood quickly...

The Three Clerks (version 2)

Author(s): Anthony Trollope Romance and crime in the mid-19th century British Civil Service. In this...

The Wandering Jew, Part 1

Author(s): Eugène Sue The Wandering Jew and his sister Hérodiade are condemned to wander the...

The Wing of Azrael, Volume 3

Author(s): Mona Caird Mona Caird, a British writer and feminist, criticized in numerous non-fiction writings...

Ticonderoga; A Story of Early Frontier Life in the Mohawk Valley

Author(s): George Payne Rainsford James In the backwoods, lives a man and his two teenage...

The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna

Author(s): James Fenimore Cooper The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is...

The Mysteries of London Vol. IV

Author(s): George W. M. Reynolds The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian...

The Lifted Veil (Version 2)

Author(s): George Eliot George Eliot’s 1859 novella, The Lifted Veil, departs radically from the grounded...

The Ralstons

Author(s): Francis Marion Crawford Katharine has married Jack Ralston secretly and hoped to force her...

The Mysteries of Paris – Volume 4

Author(s): Eugène Sue Rodolphe, who is really the Grand Duke of Gerolstein (a fictional kingdom...

The Marriage Contract

Author(s): Honoré de Balzac Balzac’s novel “The Marriage Contract” (1835) is part of his “Scenes...

The Maid Of Sker

Author(s): Richard Doddridge Blackmore Who is Bardie? Her refined clothes show that she is not...

The Massarenes

Author(s): Ouida The last novel by British author Ouida. It is a satirical look at...

The Macdermots of Ballycloran

Author(s): Anthony Trollope This is the story of the Macdermots of Ballycloran the story is...

The Ivory Tower

Author(s): Henry James An unfinished manuscript written in ponderous, convoluted language making possible subterfuge and...

The Old Curiosity Shop

Author(s): Charles Dickens The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Little Nell, a beautiful...

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Author(s): Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is a tragic novel by English author...

The Mysteries of Marseilles

Author(s): Émile Zola The elopement of Philippe Cayol, an aspiring liberal, poor and untitled with...

The Northern Spy

Author(s): J. Thomas Warren The Northern Spy, written in the 1800s, is a lively story...