Category Archives: Published 1800 – 1900
The Count of Monte Cristo
Author(s): Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an...
The Idiot (Part 01 and 02)
Author(s): Fyodor Dostoyevsky The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss...
The Chouans (version 2)
Author(s): Honoré de Balzac “The Chouans” (1829) was the first novel published under Balzac’s own...
The Canadians of Old
When Philippe Aubert de Gaspé sat down in his seventies to pen a portrait of...
The Ball at Sceaux
Author(s): Honoré de Balzac The novella “The Ball at Sceaux” is part of Balzac’s great...
The Dominion in 1983
Author(s): Ralph Centennius First published as a booklet in 1883, “The Dominion in 1983” describes...
The Firm of Girdlestone
Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle This book summarizes the down fall of one of the...
The Hidden Hand
Author(s): E.D.E.N. Southworth “If you will listen to this book, you will meet a cast...
The English Orphans; Or, A Home in the New World
Author(s): Mary Jane Holmes After Mary Howard and her sisters are left without parents in...
The Egoist
Author(s): George Meredith The Egoist is a tragi-comical novel by George Meredith published in 1879....
The Fate of Fenella
Author(s): Various One book, twenty-four authors … Fenella is the beautiful, girlish and headstrong heroine...
The Gold Bag
Author(s): Carolyn Wells The case involves a millionaire murdered in his study, suspicious servants, a...
The Compleat Bachelor
Author(s): Oliver Onions George Oliver Onions was a British writer of story collections and over...
The Cossacks
Author(s): Leo Tolstoy The Cossacks (1863) is an unfinished novel which describes the Cossack life...
The Half-Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier
Author(s): Walt Whitman Published anonymously in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (with an earlier draft also...
Tales of Mean Streets
Author(s): Arthur Morrison This is the first book of a trilogy (A Child of the...
The Awakening (version 2)
Author(s): Kate Chopin Kate Chopin’s 1899 novella The Awakening is about the personal, sexual, and...
Study in Scarlet (Version 7 Dramatic Reading)
Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the...
Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life
Author(s): Honoré de Balzac Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life is one of the last great...
Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite
Author(s): Anthony Trollope Sir Harry Hotspur’s only son and heir dies young which means that...
Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches: An Autobiography
Nineteenth-century American patent medicine marketing often relied on extreme sensationalism, but few promotional ploys match...
Taken at the Flood
Author(s): Mary Elizabeth Braddon Brought up by a parish schoolmaster with a hidden past, Sylvia...
Selected Classics of Washington Irving
Author(s): Washington Irving Washington Irving is one of early America’s most treasured writers. He is...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 2)
When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began serializing short stories about a hyper-observant London detective in...
Strangers at Lisconnel
Author(s): Jane Barlow Strangers at Lisconnel is a sequel to Jane Barlow’s Irish Idylls. The...
Self-Control: A Novel
Author(s): Mary Brunton The author: “This little tale was begun at first merely for my...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Version 6)
Author(s): Mark Twain Follow the young boy Huckleberry Finn and the slave Jim on their...
Story of a Modern Woman (Version 2)
Author(s): Ella Hepworth Dixon “The Story of a Modern Woman” (1894) is a work of...
Superfluous Woman
Author(s): Emma Francis Brooke Published anonymously in 1894, “A Superfluous Woman” quickly became one of...
The Absentee
Author(s): Maria Edgeworth Published in 1812, “The Absentee” by Maria Edgeworth examines social injustice in...