Category Archives: Published 1800 – 1900
Silas Marner
Author(s): George Eliot Silas Marner (originally published in 1861): Betrayed by a beloved friend and...
Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences
Author(s): H. G. Wells Select Conversations with an Uncle, published in 1895, was H.G. Wells’s...
Rudin
Author(s): Ivan Turgenev Rudin is the first and perhaps least known novel by Ivan Turgenev,...
Strange World
Author(s): Mary Elizabeth Braddon A compelling story by one of the most prolific authors of...
Second Home
Author(s): Honoré de Balzac This novella was first published in French in 1830, with the...
Sowing Seeds in Danny
Author(s): Nellie McClung Nellie L. McClung (1873-1951) is a Canadian icon – a feminist, social...
Taking the Bastile
Author(s): Alexandre Dumas Pitou lost his mother when he was small. He was raised by...
Sense and Sensibility (version 2)
Author(s): Jane Austen This is a story of the English moneyed class and its eternal...
Sunshine and Snow
Author(s): Harold Bindloss A harrowing and dramatic story of four siblings from Scotland who are...
Ships That Pass in the Night
Author(s): Beatrice Harraden This short novel by Beatrice Harraden, who was known for her work...
Schopenhauer in the Air
Author(s): Sadakichi Hartmann Sadakichi Hartmann was an art and literary critic who wrote plays, short...
Mysteries of Paris – Volume 5
Author(s): Eugène Sue Rodolphe, who is really the Grand Duke of Gerolstein (a fictional kingdom...
Mary Barton
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell,...
Pierre, or The Ambiguities
Author(s): Herman Melville The life of a young heir, Pierre is altered when he meets...
Mabel Ross, the Sewing Girl
Author(s): Unknown Orphaned Mabel struggles to raise her sisters by working as a sewing girl...
Moments With Mark Twain
Author(s): Mark TwainAlbert Bigelow Paine These selections from the works of Mark Twain are presented...
Oliver Twist (version 7)
Author(s): Charles Dickens Orphan boy Oliver is forced into child labor at an early age,...
Ormond
Author(s): Maria Edgeworth Maria Edgeworth was one of the most popular writers of her time,...
Madame de Mauves
Author(s): Henry James Considered an early masterpiece, “Madame de Mauves” is the first of Henry...
Mysteries of Paris – Volume 6
Author(s): Eugène Sue Rodolphe, who is really the Grand Duke of Gerolstein (a fictional kingdom...
Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain
Author(s): Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain is a...
Ralph the Heir
Author(s): Anthony Trollope As usual, Trollope creates a nice variety of characters of different English...
Mollie’s Prince
Author(s): Rosa Nouchette Carey Mr. Ward is a failing artist. His two daughters, Mollie and...
New Grub Street
Author(s): George Gissing “The story deals with the literary world that Gissing himself had experienced....
Oliver Twist (version 3)
Author(s): Charles Dickens Oliver Twist was published in 1838 as a three volume book. The...
One Life, One Love
Author(s): Mary Elizabeth Braddon Clara and Robert Hatrell lead an ideal life with their young...
Mark the Match Boy or Richard Hunter’s Ward
Author(s): Horatio Alger, Jr. In this third installment from the “Ragged Dick” series by Horatio...
Madame Bovary (Version 2)
Author(s): Gustave Flaubert Written over a century and a half ago, Madame Bovary is still...
Nina Balatka
Author(s): Anthony Trollope A romance set in Prague between a Catholic and a Jew. In...
Phineas Finn (Version 2)
Author(s): Anthony Trollope This novel tells the story of the lead character, Phineas Finn, including...