10 best-selling classics books like Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

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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…

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Cover of Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë, Angeline Goreau

1. Agnes Grey

By: Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition can be found here. Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Bro… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Dakle,"

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"No one cares for the exterior."

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"But, God knows best, I concluded."

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"If you require perfection, you never will"

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

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2. 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
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Villette by Charlotte Brontë, A.S. Byatt, Μαρία Λαϊνά, Ignes Sodre

3. Villette

By: Charlotte Brontë , A.S. Byatt , Μαρία Λαϊνά , Ignes Sodre

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Bronte's final novel … read more

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  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • classics
  • fiction
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4. The Professor

By: Charlotte Brontë

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Professor is Charlotte Brontes first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and con… read more

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  • classics
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë, Stevie Davies

5. 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
Cover of Silas Marner by George Eliot

6. Silas Marner

By: George Eliot

3.68

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwa… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Love once, love always"

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

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7. Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

3.87

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich … read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"I was quiet, but I was not blind."

-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

8. Shirley

By: Charlotte Brontë , Lucasta Miller , None , Jessica Cox

4.26

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Following the tremendous popular success of Jane Eyre,which earned her lifelong notoriety as a mora… read more

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Cover of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, Alfred J. MacAdam

9. Northanger Abbey

By: Jane Austen , Alfred J. MacAdam

3.85

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Auste… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"I have no talent for certainty."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"Every moment has its pleasures and its hope."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

10. 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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11. Dr. Wortle's School

By: Anthony Trollope , Mick Imlah

4.01

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

Mr Peacocke, a Classical scholar, has come to Broughtonshire with his beautiful American wife to li… read more

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12. 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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13. Candleford Green

By: Flora Thompson

4.15

Format: 384 pages,

Flora Thompson's semi-autobiographical Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy is known and loved the world… read more

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14. 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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  • classics
  • british literature
  • 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

15. Evelina

By: None , Edward A. Bloom

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

Frances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive accou… read more

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16. Over to Candleford

By: Flora Thompson

3.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

Flora Thompson's semi-autobiographical Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy is known and loved the world… read more

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17. 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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  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"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

18. The Semi-Attached Couple

By: Emily Eden

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Emily Eden (1797-1869) was a British author. Her works include: Portaits of the People and Princes … read more

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Cover of The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1) by Anthony Trollope, David Skilton

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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  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"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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Agnes Grey

Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

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3.81

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Villette

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3.50

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3.50

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Emily Brontë , Richard J. Dunn

3.89

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4.15

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