Published before 1800
The Blazing World
Read by Sarah Terry
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess Of Newcastle and Margaret Lucas Cavendish
The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish is, all at once, a satire, a treatise on natural philosophy, a work of proto-science fiction, and a …
The Fortunate Foundlings
Read by Helen Taylor
Eliza Haywood
A story of love and adventure, following the fortunes of a young man and woman each trying to make their way in the wide world. Horatio and …
The Adventures of Roderick Random
Read by Arthur Krolman
Tobias Smollett
I am Roderick Random. This is the contemporary story of my struggle against the adversity of orphan-hood, poverty, press gangs, bloody duels…
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Volume I)
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Tobias Smollett
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle is a picaresque novel by the Scottish author Tobias Smollett (1721 – 1771), first published in 1751, and …
Manon Lescaut
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Abbé Prévost
Published in 1731, Manon Lescaut (on which the Puccini opera is based) takes as its themes passionate, tragic love, and redemption through s…
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 3
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Laurence Sterne
This is volume 3 of 4.The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy) is a novel by Laurence Sterne.…
The Female Quixote Vol. 2
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Charlotte Lennox
Second Volume of the novel that formally inverts Don Quixote: as the don mistakes himself for the knightly hero of a Romance, so Arabella mi…
The Coquette, Or The History of Eliza Wharton
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Hannah Webster Foster
The classic early American epistolary novel about the seduction and ruin of a passionate young woman. Based on the true story of Elizabeth W…
Erec and Enide
Read by M. J. Boyle
Chrétien De Troyes
A medieval romance in which Erec goes through many trials until he is sure of Enide’s loyalty and true love (Summary by M. J. Boyle)
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
Read by Arthur Krolman
Tobias Smollett
You can call me Dr. Fathom. Or Count Fathom. But I'm not who I say I am. And can you blame me? My mother was a soldiers' harlot who pocketed…
Arthur Mervyn
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Charles Brockden Brown
Arthur Mervyn is the story of a young man from the country who arrives in a city stricken with Yellow Fever. He soon comes down with the ill…
Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten ist eine Erzählungssammlung von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, erschienen (1795).Das Konzept der R…
Mary: A Fiction (version 2)
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary: A Fiction, published in 1788, is a tragic story that decries marriages not based on love. It can be considered an example of feminist …
Mary: A Fiction
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Eliza, Mary's mother, is obsessed with novels, rarely considers anyone but herself, and favours Mary's brother. She neglects her daughter, w…
Regrets sur ma vieille robe de chambre
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Denis Diderot
Regrets sur ma vieille robe de chambre fut écrit suite à une offre de Marie-Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin d'une nouvell…
The Barnaby's in America: Final sequel to The Widow Barnaby
Read by Celine Major
Frances Milton Trollope
I scruple not to confess that with all her faults, and she has some, I love her dearly : I owe her many mirthful moments, and the deeper ple…
The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Generally considered to be the first book written in English (rather than Latin, French or Italian), Chaucer's magnum opus is a collection o…
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Volume II)
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Tobias Smollett
Volume II continues the story of the fortunes and misfortunes of the egotistical dandy Peregrine Pickle. The novel is written as a series of…
Legenden von Rübezahl aus "Volksmärchen der Deutschen"
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Johann Karl August Musäus
In fünf umfangreichen Legenden führt uns der Autor auf die Spur des weit über das böhmische Riesengebirge hinaus bekannt…
Moll Flanders - Version 2
Read by Peter Dann
Daniel Defoe
This warm and witty novel presents itself as the first person narration of an immensely likeable and resourceful woman who, born in the most…