Published 1800 -1900

Foul Play

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Charles Reade


Wrongly convicted of a crime, Robert Penfold is condemned to 5 years penal servitude. After a year he is transported on the hulk VENGEANCE d…

The Day of Resis

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Lillian Frances Mentor


Enola Cameron received a strange manuscript in the mail that sends her on an adventure of a lifetime making a discovery that no one could ha…

Ask Mamma: or The Richest Commoner In England

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Robert Smith Surtees


Considering that Billy Pringle, or Fine Billy, as his good-natured friends called him, was only an underbred chap, he was as good an imitati…

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…

The Ball at Sceaux

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Honoré de Balzac


The novella “The Ball at Sceaux” is part of Balzac’s great life work — the expansive fiction series titled “The Human Comedy.” The central c…

The Story of a Modern Woman (Version 2)

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Ella Hepworth Dixon


“The Story of a Modern Woman” (1894) is a work of feminist social realism. In its time it was one of the most famous and influential novels …

The Countess of Rudolstadt

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George Sand


This sequel to Consuelo picks up not long after the striking conclusion of the first novel. Consuelo is enjoying a brilliant singing career…

The Murder of Delicia

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Marie Corelli


The following slight and unelaborated sketch of a very commonplace and everyday tragedy will, I am aware, meet with the unqualified disappro…

Madame de Mauves

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Henry James


Considered an early masterpiece, "Madame de Mauves" is the first of Henry James's 'international contrasts'. It recounts the story…

His Darling Sin

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


Grace Perivale is young, beautiful and rich. She and her beloved husband are the center of high society. Until Hector suddenly and unexpecte…

Heriot's Choice

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Rosa Nouchette Carey


Mildred wants to start her full life at the age of 28. She is looking forward to it until her brother asks her to come help in his home and …

Can You Forgive Her? (Version 2)

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Anthony Trollope


Can You Forgive Her was published over 2 years in serial form. It follows the life story of three women involved with courtship and marriag…

César Birotteau

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Honoré de Balzac


“Rise and Fall of César Birotteau” (1837) is part of Balzac’s great novel series titled “The Human Comedy.”The story is set in Paris,…

The Notary's Nose

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Edmond About


Ironic and Satirical: A successful Parisian notary, Alfred L’Ambert, is smitten with a fourteen-year-old ballet dancer. After a quarrel, his…

The Heirloom - Complete

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T. Duthie-Lisle


It is not the pleasing office of the writer of fiction to unfold for the delectation of his readers the pages and pictures of the volume of …

Unveiling a Parallel

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Alice Ilgenfritz Jones


In this work of utopian science fiction from the Victorian era written by Two Women of the West, a moniker for Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and El…

Illustrations of Political Economy, Volume 1

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Harriet Martineau


Hugely popular at their time of publication, Harriet Martineau’s Illustrations of Political Economy sought to turn the abstract principles o…

The Phantom Regiment; or, Stories of "Ours"

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James Grant


The title and a quick glance at the chapter titles of James Grant's The Phantom Regiment--such as "The Romance of the Month," &quo…

The Country of the Pointed Firs (Version 2)

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Sarah Orne Jewett


The Country of the Pointed Firs is an 1896 book by American writer Sarah Orne Jewett. It is considered by some literary critics to be her fi…

Ships That Pass in the Night

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Beatrice Harraden


This short novel by Beatrice Harraden, who was known for her work as a suffragist, was a bestseller in its time. In it, teacher and activis…

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