Category Archives: Published 1800 – 1900
Nina Balatka
Author(s): Anthony Trollope A romance set in Prague between a Catholic and a Jew. In...
Phineas Finn (Version 2)
Few Victorian novels capture the calculated intersection of personal ambition, romantic strategy, and parliamentary procedure...
Pan
Few literary works capture the erratic, self-destructive nature of human passion as intensely as Knut...
Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Version 2)
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell “Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life” was Mrs Gaskell’s first...
Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter?
Author(s): Helen H. Gardener Twenty-year-old Gertrude Foster has had the sheltered upbringing typical of women...
Middlemarch
Author(s): George Eliot The book examines the role of education in the lives of the...
Romance of the Moors
Author(s): Mona Caird Dick Coverdale is secretly betrothed to his neighbor, the beautiful Bessie Saunders....
Prime Minister (Version 2)
Author(s): Anthony Trollope The Prime Minister is the fifth novel in Trollope’s Palliser Series, and...
Mauprat
Author(s): George Sand Bernard Mauprat was raised by lawless brigands and knows no other way...
Notes from the Underground
Long before existentialism emerged as a formal school of thought, Fyodor Dostoyevsky constructed an unsparing...
Our Street
Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray Written as an autobiographical sketch of a Mr. M.A. Titmarsh, Our...
Miss Meredith
Author(s): Amy Levy Miss Meredith is not the most talented of her sisters. In fact,...
Primrose Path
Author(s): Bram Stoker This 1875 serialised novella appeared in The Shamrock magazine in 5 installments....
Paul Clifford
Author(s): Edward Bulwer-Lytton Most men who with some earnestness of mind examine into the mysteries...
Our Village, Volume 2
Author(s): Mary Russell Mitford This volume continues Miss Mitford’s reflections on the changes to village...
My Flirtations
Author(s): Ella Hepworth Dixon Many novels, most notably Hannah Webster’s The Coquette, focused on how...
Marion Fay
Author(s): Anthony Trollope Marion Fay (1882) offers a pair of romances, each involving a match...
Mont Oriol: or A Romance of Auvergne
Guy de Maupassant’s third novel exposes the cold transactionality hidden behind French high society’s polite...
Rachel Gray
Author(s): Julia Kavanagh Kavanagh’s books feature strong young women, like herself, and had much popular...
Katharine Lauderdale Volume 1
Author(s): Francis Marion Crawford Katharine Lauderdale would be a New York society belle, if it...
Joanna Traill, Spinster
Author(s): Annie E. Holdsworth Timid Joanna Traill’s every move is dictated by her overbearing sisters....
Illustrations of Political Economy, Volume 1
When nineteenth-century Britain was grappling with rapid industrialization, expanding colonies, and shifting labor dynamics, theoretical...
Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest
Author(s): George Borrow This unusual narrative by eccentric self-taught English linguist, traveller and one-time bible...
Last Days of Pompeii
Author(s): Edward Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in...
Love of Landry
Author(s): Paul Laurence Dunbar The Love of Landry is one of Dunbar’s four novels, and...
Heriot’s Choice
Author(s): Rosa Nouchette Carey Mildred wants to start her full life at the age of...
Letters to the Joneses
Author(s): Josiah Gilbert Holland We watch our news and live our lives and see many...
Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life, Volume 3
Author(s): Margaret O. Oliphant This volume completes the story of Hester and her struggle to...
Lady Audley’s Secret
Author(s): Mary Elizabeth Braddon Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s first novel, Lady Audley’s Secret, was one of...
Katharine Lauderdale Volume 2
Author(s): Francis Marion Crawford Katherine Lauderdale would be a New York society belle, if it...