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Honoré de Balzac - Gobseck

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/money lender the father Goriot utilized to maintain his spoiled daughters in...

James E. Carson 2 hours 36 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

526

Fate of Fenella

One book, twenty-four authors… Fenella is the beautiful, girlish and headstrong heroine of a sensational Victorian novel which continually passes from one writer's cliffhanger to another's resolution. Fenella, with...

Patti Cunningham and 12 more 7 hours 23 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

631

Anthony Trollope - Macdermots of Ballycloran

This is the story of the Macdermots of Ballycloran the story is about the tragic demise of a landowning family. Larry Macdermot lives in a dilapidated mansion in Co. Leitrim, whose mortgage to Joe Flannelly he cannot...

Bob Neufeld and 8 more 16 hours 41 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

514

Edward L. Wheeler - Fritz to the Front

Fritz to the Front is the story of an Irish tramp who wants to be a detective, and is an expert at ventriloquism. The story opens with a mysterious elopement, which Fritz is asked to be a witness to at the wedding....

KirksVoice 2 hours 39 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

441

Jane Barlow - Strangers at Lisconnel

Strangers at Lisconnel is a sequel to Jane Barlow’s Irish Idylls. The locations and most of the characters are common to both. There is great humor and concomitantly a certain melancholy in most of these stories of...

James E. Carson 8 hours 54 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

480

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Henry Dunbar

In this novel by Victorian sensationalist Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Henry Dunbar returns to England after a 30-year exile to India for committing forgery. What follows is an adventure involving murder, deception, the...

Victoria P and 11 more 15 hours 38 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

489

Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin (version 2)

This is a deeply moving novel centered around the lives of Uncle Tom and others and which very effectively portrays the suffering caused by the practice of slavery in the American South, prior to and during the time...

Larraine Paquette 21 hours 2 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

462

Georg Ebers - Joshua

Hosea is a commander in Pharaoh's army… and a Hebrew. As he returns home from war, he finds that there has been a great pestilence in Egypt and his people are being blamed for it. Hosea receives a message from his...

Ann Boulais 10 hours 50 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

504

Anthony Trollope - Three Clerks (version 2)

Romance and crime in the mid-19th century British Civil Service. In this early novel,Trollope draws on his own experiences as a junior clerk in the General Post Office to provide an entertaining and moving account of...

Anthony Ogus 21 hours 50 minutes

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Romance

498

August Strindberg - Father

The Father is a naturalistic drama by Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The central conflict is between the Captain and his wife Laura about their daughter Bertha's future. In order to gain sole custody of her...

1 hour 44 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

463

Sabine Baring-Gould - Kitty Alone

Kate Quarm is a bright and sensitive girl. She lives with her aunt and uncle at Coombe Cellers, a farmhouse, eating house and store occupying a promontory in the estuary of the Teign, in the south of Devon. Kate's...

MaryAnn 13 hours 8 minutes

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Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (version 2)

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

525

Charles Dickens - Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (version 2)

The last of Dickens' Christmas novellas (1848), The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain centres around Professor Redlaw, a teacher of chemistry, whose personal life has been marred by sorrow and, he feels, by...

Ruth Golding 4 hours 14 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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