Published 1800 -1900
Totenmesse
Read by Friedrich
Stanisław Przybyszewski
Sprachlich kunstvoll und ausdrucksstark gestaltete, wortgewaltige Analyse der menschlichen Psyche. Das Werk inspirierte den norwegischen Mal…
The Chouans (version 2)
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
“The Chouans” (1829) was the first novel published under Balzac’s own name (rather than a pen-name). It became the first book in the great w…
Consuelo
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George Sand
This roman à clef follows the musical adventures of Consuelo, a gifted singer under the tutelage of the composer Nicola Porpora. Afte…
The Heavenly Twins
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Sarah Grand
First published in 1893, this novel came to question many subjects which were considered taboo. Through a few interconnected plots and sub p…
The Primrose Path
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Bram Stoker
This 1875 serialised novella appeared in The Shamrock magazine in 5 installments. It is Bram Stoker's first novel, being published 22 years …
Arabella Stuart
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George Payne Rainsford James
Lady Arabella Stuart was an English noblewoman at the beginning of the seventeenth century. At one time considered to be a possible successo…
Sunshine and Snow
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Harold Bindloss
A harrowing and dramatic story of four siblings from Scotland who are poor and orphaned. The eldest brother, Arthur, is guardian to his two …
David Poindexter's Disappearance and Other Tales
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Julian Hawthorne
Julian Hawthorne, son of famed author Nathaniel Hawthorne, brings together a collection of stories of tragedy, lost love and occasionally of…
A Whisper in the Dark
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Louisa May Alcott
A Whisper in the Dark was published anonymously in 1877 and again in 1889, this time attributed to Louisa May Alcott, along with A Modern Me…
The Caxtons: A Family Picture
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The quiet country life of the Caxton family is interrupted by a visit to London. There the son, Pisistratus, is offered the position of secr…
The Duchess of Langeais
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
“The Duchess of Langeais” (1834) is part of Balzac’s great life’s work, the sprawling novel series called “The Human Comedy.” This novel is …
A Romance of the Moors
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Mona Caird
Dick Coverdale is secretly betrothed to his neighbor, the beautiful Bessie Saunders. When a visitor to the area named Margaret Ellwood appea…
The Mute Singer, a Novel
Read by Kelly S. Taylor
Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
Sylvie de la Roche is the daughter of a destitute former nobleman and his wife living in the slums of Paris circa 1847. Her magnificent sing…
A Woman Of Yesterday
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Caroline Atwater Mason
Anna is the daughter of a clergyman in a small town in Vermont. She is very happy with her lot. But when she goes to nurse a woman in the bi…
The Forest Lovers
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Maurice Henry Hewlett
My story will take you into times and spaces alike rude and uncivil. Blood will be spilt, virgins suffer distresses; the horn will sound thr…
Paul Clifford
Read by Jim Locke
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Most men who with some earnestness of mind examine into the mysteries of our social state will perhaps pass through that stage of self-educa…
Our Village, Volume 2
Read by Anne Fletcher
Mary Russell Mitford
This volume continues Miss Mitford's reflections on the changes to village life and characters when she returns two years after the end of V…
Ursula
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
“Ursula,” first published in French in 1841 as “Ursule Mirouët,” is part of Balzac’s great suite of novels, collectively titled “The Hu…
A Christmas Carol (Version 13)
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Charles Dickens
Ebenezer Scrooge is a covetous, miserable old man who lives his life apart from his fellow man and is incapable of showing love or understan…
Das rote Zimmer
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August Strindberg
In seinem satirischen, gesellschaftskritischen Roman beschreibt Strindberg mit viel Ironie, die teilweise in Sarkasmus übergeht, die po…