19th Century Classics
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in 19th-century New England.
Emma by Jane Austen
Emma tries to impose her matchmaking ideas on everyone and finds that sometimes she should desist. Also available on audio by Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre becomes a governess in Mr. Rochester's home of Thornfield and falls in love with him before she finds that he has a tragic secret.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
When Mr. Lockwood has an encounter with the spirit of Catherine Linton at the home of the unsociable Heathcliff, he hears the story of the tempestuous love affair between Catherine and Heathcliff.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly businessman, learns the true meaning of Christmas after he is visited by the ghosts of Christmases past, present and future. Also available on audio by Charles Dickens: Great Expectations, Oliver Twist and A Tale of Two Cities.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Raskolnikoff murders an old moneylender and her sister, and after a lengthy investigation, a saintly prostitute, Sonya, convinces him to confess.
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Silas Marner, unjustly accused of theft, finds redemption in the love for a foundling child.
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Emma Bovary becomes bored with her life and embarks on an affair.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The son in the family for which Tess Durbeyfield works assaults her, and she has a child who dies in infancy, but her husband is unforgiving.
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
After 30 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, Clifford Pyncheon and his sister Hepzibah continue to worry about the power of the real murderer, their cousin Judge Pyncheon. Also available on audio by Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter.
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The story unfolds with the arrival of a new governess at a remote country estate. She has been hired by the uncle of two young orphans to take complete charge of the children's lives and upbringing. Her first peaceful weeks are disturbed by the apparition of the ghosts of two evil servants who once served in the house.
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The story of Captain Ahab's obsession with the great white whale that crippled him.
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The classic tale of the bizarre Carpathian count, who drank human blood to stay alive, and the Englishman who knew his secret.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn, an abused outcast, rafts with Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River, where they have a variety of experiences.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
A 19th-century novel of science fiction tells of adventures beneath the sea.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
An exquisitely beautiful young man in Victorian England retains his youthful and innocent appearance over the years while his portrait reflects both his age and evil soul as he pursues a life of decadence and corruption.