Published 1800 -1900
85 books
Published 1800 -1900
1.1K
Francis Marion Crawford - American Politician
In 1880’s Boston, Mass. the good life is lead according to all the Victorian era societal rules of the New World. Political ambitions and the business of making money go hand in hand. A Senate seat suddenly opens up...
9 hours 28 minutes
Published 1800 -1900
1.1K
James Fenimore Cooper - Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna
The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is one of the Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. The Pioneers was first of these books to be...
18 hours 38 minutes
Published 1800 -1900
1.1K
Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility (version 2)
This is a story of the English moneyed class and its eternal struggle for creating “sense and sensibility” in its world. A potential marriage prospect must make “sense” by bringing with it enough assets and income to...
13 hours 28 minutes
Published 1800 -1900
1.3K
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Mary Barton
Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester during the 1830s and 1840s and deals heavily with the difficulties faced by the...
15 hours 57 minutes
Published 1800 -1900
1.1K
Herman Melville - Bartleby the Scrivener, A Story of Wall Street.
«Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street» is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Putnam's Magazine in two parts. The first part appeared in November 1853, with the...
1 hour 30 minutes
Published 1800 -1900
1.1K
Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Lady Audley's Secret
Mary Elizabeth Braddon's first novel, Lady Audley's Secret, was one of the most popular English novels of its day. Published serially in 1862, it tells the story of the lovely Lucy Graham, who becomes Lady Audley at...
14 hours 17 minutes
