Published 1800 -1900

Le Nez d’un notaire

Read by Didier


Edmond About


Un brillant notaire parisien, Alfred L'Ambert, épris d’une danseuse de ballet de quatorze ans est provoqué en duel par son riv…

The Pretty Sister Of José

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Frances Hodgson Burnett


Pepita would rather become a witch than a wife. She's seen too many women, including her mother, wither away at their husband's hands. Popul…

Villette (version 3)

Read by Leanne Fortune


Charlotte Brontë


A quiet, self-reliant, intelligent, 23-year-old woman, Lucy has, as Miss Ginevra Fanshawe asserts, "no attractive accomplishments – no …

Gobseck

Read by James E. Carson


Honoré de Balzac


Part of the La Comedie Humane and something of a sequence to Balzac's Father Goriot, the short book's title is the name of the pawn broker/m…

Away in the Wilderness

Read by Roger Melin


R. M. Ballantyne


Jasper Derry was on a mission. He had left the northern wilderness a few years earlier when he had worked for the Hudson's Bay Company, but …

Rudin

Read by Lee Smalley


Ivan Turgenev


Rudin is the first and perhaps least known novel by Ivan Turgenev, a famous Russian writer best known for his short stories and the novel Fa…

The Mysteries of Marseilles

Read by Celine Major


Émile Zola


The elopement of Philippe Cayol, an aspiring liberal, poor and untitled with Blanche De Cazalis, niece of a powerful millionaire and politic…

Alice Dugdale

Read by Anthony Ogus


Anthony Trollope


An ordinary village girl's plans for the future with her long-standing beau are threatened when he is seen to be an attractive prospect by a…

The Cloak (Version 2)

Read by Phil Chenevert


Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol


The Cloak or the Overcoat as in some translations, is a story by Ukrainian-born Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story a…

Over the Hills and Far Away: A Story of New Zealand

Read by Lewis Fletcher


Charlotte Evans


One of the very first New Zealand novels, Over the Hills and Far Away is a heavily romanticised tale of a woman's journey from England to Ot…

Mollie's Prince

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Rosa Nouchette Carey


Mr. Ward is a failing artist. His two daughters, Mollie and Waveney, are very close. However when the financial situation becomes insufferab…

The Three Clerks

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Anthony Trollope


The Three Clerks was Trollope’s sixth novel and was written mostly in railway carriages, since his work for the Post Office still entailed a…

The Country House

Read by Bob R


John Galsworthy


In “The Country House”, John Galsworthy explores many of the themes he would later expand upon in his better known, nine-novel, “The Forsyth…

A House of Gentlefolk

Read by tovarisch


Ivan Turgenev


The novel titled in Russian "Дворянское Гнездо" (Dvoryanskoye Gnezdo, sometimes translated as Home of the Gentry, A Nest of the Ge…

White Rose of Weary Leaf

Read by Lisa Reichert


Violet Hunt


Isobel Violet Hunt was a British author renowned for her literary salons, which hosted such notables as H.G. Wells, D.H. Laurence, Henry Jam…

Effi Briest (abridged)

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Theodor Fontane


Effi Briest is a classic of Prussian Realism, relatively unknown in the English speaking world, but widely taught in German schools. This tr…

Die Lady Makbeth des Mzensker Landkreises

Read by Friedrich


Nikolai Leskov


Katerina Lwowna, eine junge Frau aus armen Verhältnissen, geht eine Vernunftehe mit dem über 25 Jahre älteren Kaufmann Ismajl…

The Canadians of Old

Read by Bruce Pirie


Philippe Aubert De Gaspé


In his mid-70s, Philippe Aubert de Gaspé took on the project of recording the culture and heritage of French Canada, especially that …

Cradock Nowell Vol. 1

Read by Lynne T


Richard Doddridge Blackmore


Cradock Nowell: a Tale of the New Forest is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1866. Set in the New Forest and in London, …

One Thing Needful

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


Can starving children be grateful for the education they receive if, when they ask for food, rich people give them a stone? This is the ques…

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