Published 1800 -1900
Tales of Mean Streets
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Arthur Morrison
This is the first book of a trilogy (A Child of the Jago, To London Town) set in the harsh world of London's East End. Violence and poverty …
Juggernaut
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George Eggleston
Edgar Braine was consistently successful at all he set out to accomplish. He went through life with goals and worked diligently and with eth…
Cradock Nowell
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Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Cradock Nowell: a Tale of the New Forest is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1866. Set in the New Forest and in London, …
Monica
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Evelyn Everett-Green
Monica was happy at Trevlyn, with her father and step-brother. But what would happen to them when the estate passed to a distant cousin, ent…
The Man Who Ended War
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Hollis Godfrey
Jim Orrington, news reporter, is at the office when the Secretary of War brings in a letter--mostly likely a prank--that demands all the nat…
The Autobiography of Cockney Tom
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Thomas Bastard
The Autobiography of Cockney Tom, Showing his Struggles through Life,and proving this Truth of the Old Saying "that Honesty is the best…
Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dr. Grimshawe is a spider-cultivating eccentric. The central secret of the book is an all-encompassing spiders web. The central character is…
Moments With Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
These selections from the works of Mark Twain are presented in chronological order. They include the memorable whitewashing of the fence in …
St. George and St. Michael
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George MacDonald
’St. George and St. Michael’ is a little-known historical romance telling the story of a young couple who find themselves on opposing sides …
Our Street
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Written as an autobiographical sketch of a Mr. M.A. Titmarsh, Our Street is a tongue-in-cheek look at English society and the characters who…
Mont Oriol
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Guy de Maupassant
Young bride Christiane arrives in Auvergne to "take the waters" with her husband, described as "a sickly flower, or a sucking…
Joanna Traill, Spinster
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Annie E. Holdsworth
Timid Joanna Traill’s every move is dictated by her overbearing sisters. Then she meets Mr. Boas, a man who works to give “fallen” women a …
Cecilia de Noël
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Mary Elizabeth Hawker
Cecilia de Noël is an original and cleverly told ghost story, published in 1891. The story is told, Rashomon-like, from six different v…
A Traveller from Altruria
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William Dean Howells
Set in the early 1890s, at a fashionable summer resort somewhere on the East Coast of the United States, this book tells the story of Mr. T…
A House Divided Against Itself
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Margaret O. Oliphant
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." So said Abraham Lincoln in 1858. Here we have the irascible Mr. Waring, an elderly …
Self-Control
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Mary Brunton
The author: "This little tale was begun at first merely for my own amusement. It is published that I may reconcile my conscience to the…
Antonia
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George Sand
Will love conquer all? An entertaining novel of growth in light of societal pressures of propriety, finance and inheritance of 19th century …
In League With Israel
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Annie Fellows Johnston
When Bethany Hallam travels to Chattanooga for the League Conference, she meets David Herschel, who challenges her thinking and changes her …
The Ralstons
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Francis Marion Crawford
Katharine has married Jack Ralston secretly and hoped to force her rich uncle's hand in assisting him to find a career. After his refusal, s…
Alice
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Frederic Werden Pangborn
This book is given to the reader, as the exposition of a terrible possibility in actual life. Should there be found, in its pages, any warm…