Published 1800 -1900

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Victor Hugo - Last Day of a Condemned

A man who has been condemned to death writes down his cogitations, feelings and fears while he is waiting for his execution. He does not betray his name to the reader or what he has done. He describes his life in...

Alisson Veldhuis 2 hours 46 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

443

Justin McCarthy - Riddle Ring

This romantic mystery — or mysterious romance — tells the tale of jilted lover, Jim Conrad, who discovers an unusual gold ring while on a visit to Paris. What is the story of the ring? Why is Clelia Vine so sad?...

Ruth Golding 11 hours 25 minutes

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Christmas Carol (version 08 dramatic reading)

Dramatic Readings

579

Charles Dickens - Christmas Carol (version 08 dramatic reading)

A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional...

3 hours 1 minute

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Published 1800 -1900

502

Wilkie Collins - Dead Alive

Ill feelings exist between the Meadowcroft sons and John Jago, the foreman of the Meadowcroft estate. Then, John Jago disappears, and a body is found in a kiln. The Meadowcroft brothers stand accused of the crime,...

Nadine Eckert-Boulet and 5 more 2 hours 8 minutes

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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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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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