The Moonstone
By: Wilkie Collins , Carolyn G. Heilbrun
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazi…
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1. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
By: Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Margaret R. Higonnet
3.83
Format: 518 pages, Paperback
Alternate covers can be found here and here. When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty t… read more
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- classics
- 19th century
- victorian
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- historical fiction
"Bless thy simplicity, Tess"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"One thing he certainly was— sincere."-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"The roof was a gymnasium for the winds"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"Tess was carried along the wings of the hours"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
2. Bleak House
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury
4.02
Format: 1017 pages, Paperback
The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic… read more
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- classics
- 19th century
- victorian
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- mystery
"You can be nothing better than yourself; be that [...]"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is!"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
3. North and South
By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Alan Shelston
4.15
Format: 521 pages, Paperback
When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her com… read more
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- classics
- 19th century
- victorian
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"No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother."-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
"One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly."-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
"But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be. "-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
"He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it."-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
4. Vanity Fair
By: William Makepeace Thackeray , John Carey
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Edited by John Carey. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray… read more
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- 19th century
- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
5. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
By: Arthur Conan Doyle , Anne Perry , Sidney Paget , Maria Buitoni Duca
4.13
Format: 256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this, one of the most famous of Doyle's mysteries, the tale of an ancient curse and a savage gho… read more
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- mystery
- classics
- crime
- fiction
"The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?"-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
"It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull."-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
"Watson: "You may be right." Holmes: "The probability lies in that direction."-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
6. The Moonstone
By: Wilkie Collins , Carolyn G. Heilbrun
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazi… read more
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- classics
- 19th century
- victorian
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- crime
7. Cranford
By: Elizabeth Gaskell
3.81
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
'It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor...I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant thin… read more
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- classics
- 19th century
- victorian
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- historical fiction
8. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
By: Anne Brontë , Stevie Davies
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
Note: Editions of The Tenant that start with: "You must go back with me..." are incomplete. Actual … read more
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- 19th century
- historical fiction
9. Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
3.84
Format: 212 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for … read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- crime
"But if you were investigating a crime,"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
"Well, it’s no good jumping at conclusions."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
"Oh damn!' said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
"I trust you told her I had succumbed to lethargic encephalitis suddenly, no flowers by request."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
10. Cloud Howe
By: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
3.67
Format: 364 pages,
Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935), a Scottish writer. Mit… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
11. Mary Barton
By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Shirley Foster
3.91
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 183… read more
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12. The Leavenworth Case
By: Anna Katharine Green
4.27
Format: 412 pages, Paperback
Na biblioteca da sua mansao da Quinta Avenida, em Nova Iorque, o milionario Horatio Leavenworth e e… read more
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13. The Way We Live Now
By: Anthony Trollope
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
Trollope's 1875 tale of a great financier's fraudulent machinations in the railway business, and hi… read more
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14. Lady Audley's Secret
By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
This Victorian bestseller, along with Braddon's other famous novel, Aurora Floyd, established her a… read more
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15. The Mill on the Floss
By: George Eliot , A.S. Byatt
3.83
Format: 579 pages, Paperback
'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?' Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie… read more
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- 19th century
- victorian
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Don't judge a book by its cover"-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"Don't judge a book by its cover."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"I desire no future that will break the ties of the past."-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
16. Middlemarch
By: Michel Faber , George Eliot
4.02
Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more
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- 19th century
- victorian
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- historical fiction
"After all, the true seeing is within."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I protest against any absolute conclusion."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
17. The Trail of the Serpent
By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
4.60
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837-1915), Victorian England's bestselling woman writer, blends Dickensian… read more
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18. The Mayor of Casterbridge
By: Thomas Hardy , Keith Wilson
4.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
'I've not always been what I am now' In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and… read more
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19. The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
By: Anthony Trollope , David Skilton
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Warden centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in p… read more
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- 19th century
- victorian
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- historical fiction
"It is much less difficult for the sufferer to be generous than for the oppressor."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"... In what I do I may appear to be interfering with you, and I hope you will forgive me for doing so."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"He never quarreled with his wife, but he never talked to her;--he never had time to talk, he was so taken up with speaking."-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
"They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts!"-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
20. Far from the Madding Crowd
By: Thomas Hardy , Rosemarie Morgan , Shannon Russell
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Independent and spirited Bathsh… read more
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