Published 1800 -1900
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life is one of the last great works completed by Balzac for his huge novel series entitled The Human Comedy. Sect…
Penelope's English Experiences
Read by Maria Therese
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Penelope's English Experiences is a fictional travelogue, which documents the experiences of three American ladies on a visit to England. In…
Páginas Recolhidas
Read by RogerioM
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis and Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis
Páginas Recolhidas é um livro de contos de Machado de Assis, lançado em 1899. A obra traz alguns dos mais interessantes…
Là-bas
Read by Peter Tucker
Joris-Karl Huysmans
The plot of Là-Bas concerns the novelist Durtal, who is disgusted by the emptiness and vulgarity of the modern world. He seeks relief…
Aunt Jane's Hero
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Elizabeth Prentiss
Aunt Jane's Hero tells the story of Aunt Jane, a selfless and nurturing woman whose wisdom and kindness touch the lives of those around her.…
El ensueño
Read by Mongope
Émile Zola
El ensueño es una obra que forma parte de la serie de veinte novelas que Zola tituló “Les Rougon- Macquart”. Entre “La tierra …
Nina Balatka
Read by Anthony Ogus
Anthony Trollope
Nina Balatka is a poignant romance set against the backdrop of 19th-century Prague, where the lives of a Catholic woman and a Jewish man int…
Madame Bovary
Read by Peter Dann
Gustave Flaubert
Written over a century and a half ago, Madame Bovary is still an extraordinarily fresh, exciting and shockingly frank novel, at once an acut…
Fortunata y Jacinta
Read by Epachuko
Benito Pérez Galdós
"Fortunata y Jacinta" esta considerada la mejor obra de su autor: Benito Pérez Galdós, y junto con "La Regenta&…
Bruges-la-Morte
Read by Ezwa
Georges Rodenbach
Voilà cinq ans que Hugues Viane est veuf. Voilà cinq ans qu'il est venu s'installer à Bruges, cette ville qui lui renvo…
The Trumpet-Major
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Thomas Hardy
Our heroine, Anne Garland, lives quietly in a rural community deep in the English countryside. However, the arrival of several regiments pr…
Lost Illusions
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
Ève and David (1843) is the final book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively t…
Fausto
Read by mariemdover
Estanislao del Campo
En este tradicional poema de la literatura gauchesca argentina, el gaucho Anastasio "el Pollo" se encontró con su amigo Lag…
Horror Stories
Read by Newgatenovelist
Ada Buisson
Ada Buisson was a Victorian novelist and short story author. This collection includes her three horror stories, all of which were published …
The Island of Doctor Moreau
Read by Tom Haire
H. G. Wells
In 1896 HG Wells produced the Island of Doctor Moreau. After a fateful shipwreck, a chance rescue, and offer of safe harbor, Edward Prendick…
The Absentee
Read by Bruce Pirie
Maria Edgeworth
Published in 1812, “The Absentee” by Maria Edgeworth examines social injustice in 19th-century Britain. At that time, the management of man…
Misericordia
Read by Mongope
Benito Pérez Galdós
"En Misericordia me propuse descender a las capas ínfimas de la sociedad matritense, describiendo y presentando los tipos m&aacu…
Germinal
Read by VfkaBT
Émile Zola
This epic about French coal miners and the burgeoning labor movement is considered one of Zola's finest novels. - Summary by Matt Pierard
A Country Doctor
Read by Jeannie
Sarah Orne Jewett
A Country Doctor is a fiction novel by American author Sarah Orne Jewett. The book, which was first published in 1884, was based on the rela…
Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite
Read by Simon Evers
Anthony Trollope
Sir Harry Hotspur’s only son and heir dies young which means that the title goes to a cousin, George Hotspur. Sir Harry wants the ancestral …