Published 1800 -1900
Colonel Chabert (Version 2)
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
The short novel “Colonel Chabert” (1832) is part of Balzac’s great life work, the sprawling novel series titled “The Human Comedy.” Chabert,…
Madame de Mauves
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Henry James
Considered an early masterpiece, "Madame de Mauves" is the first of Henry James's 'international contrasts'. It recounts the story…
Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest
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George Borrow
This unusual narrative by eccentric self-taught English linguist, traveller and one-time bible salesman George Borrow combines elements of a…
The Murder of Delicia
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Marie Corelli
The following slight and unelaborated sketch of a very commonplace and everyday tragedy will, I am aware, meet with the unqualified disappro…
Heriot's Choice
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Rosa Nouchette Carey
Mildred wants to start her full life at the age of 28. She is looking forward to it until her brother asks her to come help in his home and …
Chronicles of Wolfert's Roost and Other Papers
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Washington Irving
This collection from renowned author Washington Irving (famed for his haunting tale "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and the fantastical le…
Thirty Years Since; or, The Ruined Family
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George Payne Rainsford James
Two young men share a carriage from London to the fictional village of Emberton early on a late August morning. One is a Captain Delaware of…
The Notary's Nose
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Edmond About
Ironic and Satirical: A successful Parisian notary, Alfred L’Ambert, is smitten with a fourteen-year-old ballet dancer. After a quarrel, his…
Illustrations of Political Economy, Volume 1
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Harriet Martineau
Hugely popular at their time of publication, Harriet Martineau’s Illustrations of Political Economy sought to turn the abstract principles o…
The Unknown Masterpiece
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Honoré de Balzac
“The Unknown Masterpiece” (“Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu”) is a novella by Honoré de Balzac, published with revisions in 1845, after earli…
Unveiling a Parallel
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Alice Ilgenfritz Jones
In this work of utopian science fiction from the Victorian era written by Two Women of the West, a moniker for Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and El…
Elizabeth's Pretenders
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Hamilton Aïdé
A fin de siècle society tale of a young English heiress who must surely be in need of a husband. The multiple pretenders to her hand …
Tom Brown at Oxford
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Thomas Hughes
This sequel to Tom Brown's School Days follows Tom to Oxford, where he studies at St. Ambrose's College. While the college is fictional, th…
The Heirloom - Complete
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T. Duthie-Lisle
It is not the pleasing office of the writer of fiction to unfold for the delectation of his readers the pages and pictures of the volume of …