Category Archives: Published 1800 – 1900
Henry Dunbar
Author(s): Mary Elizabeth Braddon In this novel by Victorian sensationalist Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Henry Dunbar...
House of Gentlefolk
Author(s): Ivan Turgenev The novel titled in Russian “Дворянское Гнездо” (Dvoryanskoye Gnezdo, sometimes translated as...
Horror Stories
Author(s): Ada Buisson Ada Buisson was a Victorian novelist and short story author. This collection...
Letters from Mrs Palmerstone to Her Daughter, Volume One
Author(s): Rachel Hunter The extended title of these volumes is ‘Inculcating Morality by Entertaining Narratives”,...
Lodore
Author(s): Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley The author of Frankenstein returns with her take on an Austen...
Lost for Love
Author(s): Mary Elizabeth Braddon EXCERPT: In all things that he did, Flora’s well-being was the...
Lost Illusions: Ève and David
Author(s): Honoré de Balzac Ève and David (1843) is the final book in Balzac’s Lost...
Impressions of Theophrastus Such (Version 2)
Author(s): George Eliot The ruminations and reflections of a minor scholar. – Summary by Mark...
L’Assommoir
Author(s): Émile Zola Émile François Zola (French pronunciation: [emil zɔˈla]) (2 April 1840 – 29...
His Darling Sin
Author(s): Mary Elizabeth Braddon Grace Perivale is young, beautiful and rich. She and her beloved...
Lear of the Steppes, etc.
Author(s): Ivan Turgenev This book contains three novellas by one of the major writers of...
House Divided Against Itself
Author(s): Margaret O. Oliphant “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” So said Abraham Lincoln...
It Is Never Too Late to Mend
Author(s): Charles Reade A ruthless squire becomes obsessed with a younger woman and conspires against...
Colonel Chabert (Version 2)
Author(s): Honoré de Balzac The short novel “Colonel Chabert” (1832) is part of Balzac’s great...
Foul Play
Author(s): Charles ReadeDion Boucicault Wrongly convicted of a crime, Robert Penfold is condemned to 5...
Doctor Luttrell’s First Patient
Author(s): Rosa Nouchette Carey Doctor Markus Luttrell and his new wife Olivia, a former governess,...
David Copperfield
Author(s): Charles Dickens “David Copperfield” or “The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David...
Cousin Henry
Author(s): Anthony Trollope Indefer Jones struggles to name an heir to his estate. Will he...
Country Doctor
Author(s): Sarah Orne Jewett A Country Doctor is a fiction novel by American author Sarah...
Confidence
Author(s): Henry James This light and somewhat awkward comedy centers on artist Bernard Longueville, scientist...
God’s fool
Author(s): Maarten Maartens At the age of nine, Elias Lossell becomes deaf and blind from...
Eight Cousins (Version 3)
Author(s): Louisa May Alcott Eight Cousins, or The Aunt-Hill was published in 1875 by American...
Cradock Nowell Vol. 2
Author(s): Richard Doddridge Blackmore Cradock Nowell: a Tale of the New Forest is a three-volume...
Gobseck
Author(s): Honoré de Balzac Part of the La Comedie Humane and something of a sequence...
Fritz to the Front
Author(s): Edward L. Wheeler Fritz to the Front is the story of an Irish tramp...
Elizabeth’s Pretenders
Author(s): Hamilton Aïdé A fin de siècle society tale of a young English heiress who...
Dodo: A Detail of the Day
Author(s): E. F. Benson Fashionably controversial bestseller at the time of appearance (1893), portraying London...
Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
Author(s): Harriet Beecher Stowe This is Stowe’s second book, another one depicting the horrors of...
Effi Briest (abridged)
Author(s): Theodor Fontane Effi Briest is a classic of Prussian Realism, relatively unknown in the...
Crown of Straw
Author(s): Allen Upward There is a plan afoot to commit murder, but who could be...