Published 1800 -1900

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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 2)

Detective Fiction

501

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 2)

A collection of twelve short stories featuring Conan Doyle's legendary detective, originally published as single stories in Strand Magazine and subsequently collected into a single volume. There is not...

Ruth Golding 13 hours 29 minutes

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Romance

445

Thomas Hardy - Woodlanders (version 2)

The Woodlanders is one of Hardy's later novels, although he originally intended it as a successor to Far From The Madding Crowd. It concerns the life and loves of Giles Winterborne, Grace Melbury, Edred Fitzpiers,...

Tadhg 13 hours 27 minutes

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General Fiction

510

Kate Chopin - Awakening (version 2)

Kate Chopin's 1899 novella The Awakening is about the personal, sexual, and artistic awakening of a young wife and mother, Edna Pontellier. While on vacation at Grand Isle, an island in the Gulf of Mexico, Edna...

Elizabeth Klett 4 hours 37 minutes

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Romance

550

Honoré de Balzac - Girl with the Golden Eyes

Listeners who like to plunge straight into a story would do well to skip the lengthy preamble. Here, Balzac the virtuoso satirist depicts the levels of Parisian society as a version of the Inferno of Dante — but...

Martin Geeson 4 hours 30 minutes

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War & Military Fiction

527

Honoré de Balzac - Farewell

In his startling and tragic novella Farewell (‘Adieu’), Balzac adds to the 19th century’s literature of the hysterical woman: sequestered, confined in her madness; mute, or eerily chanting in her moated grange. The...

Martin Geeson 2 hours 28 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

471

Thomas Bastard - Autobiography of Cockney Tom

The Autobiography of Cockney Tom, Showing his Struggles through Life,and proving this Truth of the Old Saying «that Honesty is the best Policy». Set in England, South Australia and the goldfields of Victoria...

Richard Schipper and 4 more 3 hours 7 minutes

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Romance

575

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - John Halifax, Gentleman

This novel, published in 1856, was one of the popular and beloved novels in the Victorian era. It is told in the first person by Phineas Fletcher, an invalid son of a Quaker tanner who is presented to us in the...

Cori Samuel and 13 more 19 hours 37 minutes

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General Fiction

558

Grant Allen - Woman Who Did

Most times, especially in the time when this book was written (1895), it is just as nature and society would wish: a man and woman «fall in love» and get married. But it is not so for Herminia Barton and Alan...

Ruth Golding 6 hours 1 minute

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Published 1800 -1900

705

Elizabeth Prentiss - Aunt Jane's Hero

Aunt Jane is a good and loving woman, important to everyone except herself, always willing to give good advice. Her «hero», Horace, is far different: in the beginning of the story, he is a good but a little...

Jean A and 2 more 5 hours 50 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

494

George Gissing - New Grub Street

«The story deals with the literary world that Gissing himself had experienced. Its title refers to the London street, Grub Street, which in the 18th century became synomynous with hack literature; as an institution,...

Bridget Gaige and 10 more 19 hours 34 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

546

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Idiot (Part 01 and 02)

The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Russia to claim his inheritance and to find a place in healthy human society....

Martin Geeson 15 hours 42 minutes

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Family Life

573

George Meredith - Egoist

The Egoist is a tragicomical novel by George Meredith published in 1879. The novel recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patterne and his attempts at marriage; jilted by his first bride-to-be, he...

Martin Geeson and 9 more 22 hours 18 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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