Published 1800 -1900
Madame Bovary
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Gustave Flaubert
Published in book form in April 1857, the novel focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her mea…
A Christmas Carol
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Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells …
Notes from the Underground
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short masterpiece about a ranting, slightly mad civil servant. The stylistic inventiveness, and the insights into the a…
David Copperfield
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Charles Dickens
"David Copperfield" or "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blun…
The Awakening
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Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin's 1899 novella The Awakening is about the personal, sexual, and artistic awakening of a young wife and mother, Edna Pontellier. …
The Old Curiosity Shop
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Charles Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Little Nell, a beautiful and virtuous young girl who lives with her grandfather in his shop of cur…
A House to Let
Read by Ruth Golding
Charles Dickens
A House to Let is a short story originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine. Each of the cont…
Ruth
Read by Cynthia Lyons (1946-2011)
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The book is a social novel, dealing with Victorian views about sin and illegitimacy. It is a surprisingly compassionate portrayal of a 'fall…
Sense and Sensibility
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Jane Austen
This is a story of the English moneyed class and its eternal struggle for creating “sense and sensibility” in its world. A potential marriag…
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Read by Alisson Veldhuis
Thomas Hardy
Tess of the d'Urbervilles subtitled, "A Pure Woman," is the story of a young working woman named Tess Durbeyfield who is sent by h…
The Bishop's Secret
Read by David Wales
Fergus Hume
Bishop Pendle is the Church of England bishop in a small fictitious English cathedral town. Several years into his work, he receives a visit…
A Christmas Carol
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Charles Dickens
The tale begins on a Christmas Eve exactly seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner. Scrooge has no place in his l…
Silas Marner
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George Eliot
Silas Marner (originally published in 1861): Betrayed by a beloved friend and accused of a crime he didn’t commit, awkward Silas Marner is e…
Middlemarch
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George Eliot
The book examines the role of education in the lives of the characters and how such education and study has affected the characters. Rosamon…
Bartleby the Scrivener
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Herman Melville
"Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Pu…
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Mark Twain
Follow the young boy Huckleberry Finn and the slave Jim on their epic journey down the Mississippi River in the years before the Civil War. …
The Woodlanders
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Thomas Hardy
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 Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
Read by Ruth Golding
Charles Dickens
The last of Dickens' Christmas novellas (1848), The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain centres around Professor Redlaw, a teacher of chemis…
The Hidden Hand
Read by Bridget Gaige
E.D.E.N. Southworth
"If you will listen to this book, you will meet a cast of unforgettable characters, as different from one another as the sun and moon. …
The Chimes
Read by Ruth Golding
Charles Dickens
The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In is the second of Charles Dickens' Christmas books, publ…