Category Archives: Published 1800 – 1900

Audiobook: Orley Farm

Orley Farm is Trollope at his best (as good as the Barsetshire series), which means

Audiobook: Three Clerks

The Three Clerks was Trollope’s sixth novel and was written mostly in railway carriages, since

Audiobook: Romance of a Christmas Card

The story of the mission of two Christmas cards written by a minister’s wife. These

Audiobook: Kreutzer Sonata

Publication of The Kreutzer Sonata in 1889 was a significant intellectual event worldwide. Censored in

Audiobook: Last Day of a Condemned

A man who has been condemned to death writes down his cogitations, feelings and fears

Audiobook: Lifted Veil (Version 2)

George Eliot’s 1859 novella, The Lifted Veil, departs radically from the grounded realism of her

Audiobook: Cousin Henry

Indefer Jones struggles to name an heir to his estate. Will he choose his favorite

Audiobook: Irene Iddesleigh

Amanda McKittrick Ros, a Northern Irish writer, did for the novel what William McGonagall did

Audiobook: Rameau’s Nephew

Rameau’s Nephew, or the Second Satire (French: Le Neveu de Rameau ou La Satire seconde)

Audiobook: Juggernaut: A Veiled Record

Edgar Braine was consistently successful at all he set out to accomplish. He went through

Audiobook: Christmas Carol (version 06)

The tale begins on a Christmas Eve exactly seven years after the death of Ebenezer

Audiobook: Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain (version 2)

The last of Dickens’ Christmas novellas (1848), The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain centres

Audiobook: Kitty Alone

Kate Quarm is a bright and sensitive girl. She lives with her aunt and uncle

Audiobook: Uncle Tom’s Cabin (version 2)

This is a deeply moving novel centered around the lives of Uncle Tom and others

Audiobook: Henry Dunbar

In this novel by Victorian sensationalist Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Henry Dunbar returns to England after

Audiobook: Strangers at Lisconnel

Strangers at Lisconnel is a sequel to Jane Barlow’s Irish Idylls. The locations and most

Audiobook: Fritz to the Front

Fritz to the Front is the story of an Irish tramp who wants to be

Audiobook: Macdermots of Ballycloran

This is the story of the Macdermots of Ballycloran the story is about the tragic

Audiobook: Gobseck

Part of the La Comedie Humane and something of a sequence to Balzac’s Father Goriot,

Audiobook: Wounds In The Rain; War Stories

Eleven stories of war by the author of The Red Badge of Courage. Stephen Crane

Audiobook: Unclassed

The Unclassed tells the story of two friends who are aspiring authors living in London

Audiobook: Wheel of Time

Fanny Knocker is a very, very plain young woman. She is introduced to the extremely

Audiobook: Collaboration

It is Paris sometime after the Franco-Prussian War (1870–Germany won–the French Second Republic collapsed–France embittered).

Audiobook: Ralph the Heir

As usual, Trollope creates a nice variety of characters of different English classes, sentiments and

Audiobook: Queen of Hearts

The elderly Brothers Owen, Morgan and Griffith live a quiet, retired life in the countryside,

Audiobook: Editor’s Tales

These ‘tales’ describe a series of encounters between various magazine editors and those who wish

Audiobook: H.M.S. Pinafore; Or, The Lass That Loved A Sailor

In this recording, one person reads the entire play, all parts, including the stage directions.

Audiobook: Dark Night’s Work

Love, murder and class commentary in Mrs Gaskell’s usual brilliant style! This novel was originally

Audiobook: Daughter Of The Vine

We are introduced to Englishman Dudley Thorpe on the evening of his arrival in California.

Audiobook: Uncle’s Dream

Uncle’s Dream by Fyodor Dostoyevsky was written following his five year exile to Siberia where