Published 1800 -1900
85 books
Published 1800 -1900
1.2K
Charles Dickens - Dombey and Son (version 2)
Dombey and Son is a novel by the Victorian author Charles Dickens. The story concerns Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company of the book's title, whose dream is to have a son to continue his business....
44 hours 35 minutes
Published 1800 -1900
1.2K
Louisa May Alcott - Work: A Story of Experience
It is one of «several nineteenth-century novels [which] uncovers the changes in women's work in the new industrial era, as well as the dilemmas, tensions, and the meaning of that work» The story depicts the struggles...
12 hours 48 minutes
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
