Romance
The Trespasser
Brief Encounter meets Tristan und Isolde - on the Isle of Wight, under a vast sky florid with stars. The consequence is tragic indeed for on…
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice is a keenly observed exploration of love, class, and social expectations in early 19th-century England. At its heart is …
The Sea-Witch
The Sea-Witch by Maturin Murray Ballou invites listeners into a world of adventure and romance on the high seas. This nautical tale follows …
Concerning Isabel Carnaby
Isabel Carnaby returns from India. She starts looking for a place in upper class British society. At the begining, people are sceptical of h…
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless
This has been said to be the first female development novel in English. Betsy leaves her emotionally and financially abusive husband Munden …
The Tysons
Another frank May Sinclair exploration of fin de siècle English love and sex, marriage and adultery, "The Tysons" is the st…
Monsieur Beaucaire
A madcap Frenchman posing as an ambassador's barber blackmails a dishonest duke to introduce him as a nobleman to a wealthy belle of Bath. S…
Sybil, or the Two Nations
Sybil is one of the most prominent political novels of the mid-nineteenth century, taking as its subject the "condition of England"…
Emily
Before she met Nicholas, all Emily cared about was shopping, and she believed her teachers when they told her the vampires had made the worl…
I've Come to Stay
An iconoclast in many fields herself, Mary Heaton Vorse was fascinated with Bohemia, the colorful unboundaried land of poets and artists and…
The Heart's Kingdom
Charlotte Powers is a woman who loves life, and is set to marry Nickols just as soon as she can figure herself out. However, coming home and…
O Pioneers!
O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska…
Graustark
The Graustark novels are stories of court intrigue, royal disguise, and romance similar to Anthony Hope's 1894 novel, The Prisoner of Zenda,…
The Dove in the Eagle's Nest
Christina is an ordinary girl who lives with her aunt and uncle. Life is normal until one day when her father appears and plans to take Chri…
Alexander's Bridge
Bartley Alexander is a construction engineer and world-renowned builder of bridges going through what's known today (but not in 1912) as a m…
An Amiable Charlatan
An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…
Revelations of a Wife
Revelations of a Wife invites listeners into the intricate world of Margaret "Madge" Graham, a spirited former schoolteacher navig…
Indiana
This is George Sand's first novel. Her real name was Amantine (or Amandine) Lucile Dupin, and she later became baroness Dudevant. As an aris…
Her Dark Inheritance
Her Dark Inheritance delves into the complexities of obsessive love and the desperation that can accompany it. As secrets unfold, the charac…
The Betrothed
The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) presents a kaleidoscope of individual stories, which are all tied together by the story of Lucia and Renzo,…