Category Archives: Published 1800 – 1900
Consuelo
Author(s): George Sand This roman à clef follows the musical adventures of Consuelo, a gifted...
Fairy Fingers
Author(s): Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie Madelaine is the poor cousin of the aristocratic de Gramont...
Dr Paull’s Theory
Author(s): Alice Mangold Diehl Hugh Paull’s training in a London hospital is nearly complete, and...
David Copperfield, Version 4
Author(s): Charles Dickens David’s journey from childhood to his adult life with all the friends...
Ellen Middleton
Author(s): Georgiana Fullerton Ellen Middleton had a happy childhood with her uncle and aunt. She...
Daughter of Today
Author(s): Sara Jeannette Duncan The Canadian author Sara Jeannette Duncan (aka Mrs. Everard Cotes) is...
Eustace Diamonds (Version 2)
Author(s): Anthony Trollope The Eustace Diamonds is the third in the Palliser Series first published...
Dombey and Son (version 2)
Author(s): Charles Dickens Dombey and Son is a novel by the Victorian author Charles Dickens....
Hard Times (version 2), Locked Out and On Strike
Author(s): Charles Dickens Hard Times was Dickens’s shortest novel and the only one to be...
Dark Night’s Work
Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Love, murder and class commentary in Mrs Gaskell’s usual brilliant style!...
For Love and Life Vol. 1
Author(s): Margaret O. Oliphant “The device on his shield was a young oak tree pulled...
Clayhanger (Version 2)
Author(s): Arnold Bennett A coming-of-age story about Edwin Clayhanger, who leaves school, has his ambition...
Catriona
Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson This is a sequel to Kidnapped. Many thought Kidnapped ended quite...
Chateau d’Or
Author(s): Mary Jane Holmes The Chateau D’Or, or The Castle of Gold, looked gloomy and...
Christmas Carol (Version 13)
Author(s): Charles Dickens Ebenezer Scrooge is a covetous, miserable old man who lives his life...
Alice; or The Wages of Sin
Author(s): Frederic Werden Pangborn This book is given to the reader, as the exposition of...
Almayer’s Folly (Version 3)
Author(s): Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad was born in former Poland, spent part of his childhood...
Christmas Carol (version 08 dramatic reading)
Author(s): Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first...
Aunt Jane’s Hero
Author(s): Elizabeth Prentiss Aunt Jane is a good and loving woman, important to everyone except...
Arabella Stuart
Author(s): George Payne Rainsford James Lady Arabella Stuart was an English noblewoman at the beginning...
Christmas Carol (version 06)
Author(s): Charles Dickens The tale begins on a Christmas Eve exactly seven years after the...
Barchester Towers
Author(s): Anthony Trollope This is the second in Trollope’s ‘Barsetshire’ series of novels. The later...
Asphodel
Author(s): Mary Elizabeth Braddon Like the Asphodel, a plant which grows far away from England,...
Beyond These Voices
Author(s): Mary Elizabeth Braddon This novel tells the fictional life story of Veera Davis. The...
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
Author(s): Honoré de Balzac The short novel “At the Sign of the Cat and Racket”...
Agnes Grey
Author(s): Anne Brontë The novel tells the story of Agnes Grey, the daughter of a...
César Birotteau
Author(s): Honoré de Balzac “Rise and Fall of César Birotteau” (1837) is part of Balzac’s...
Alice Dugdale
Author(s): Anthony Trollope An ordinary village girl’s plans for the future with her long-standing beau...
Blind Love
Author(s): Wilkie CollinsWalter Besant Blind Love, also published under the titles Iris and The Lord...
Ask Mamma: or The Richest Commoner In England
Author(s): Robert Smith Surtees Considering that Billy Pringle, or Fine Billy, as his good-natured friends...