6 must-read 19th century books like Hobomok Other Writings on Indians by Lydia Maria Child by Carolyn L. Karcher, Lydia Maria Child

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Hobomok Other Writings on Indians by Lydia Maria Child

By: Carolyn L. Karcher , Lydia Maria Child

4.16

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times is the provocative story of an upperclass white woman who marries an…

If you liked the 19th century plot in Hobomok Other Writings on Indians by Lydia Maria Child by Carolyn L. Karcher, Lydia Maria Child , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (Signet Classics)

By: Frank Norris , Eric Solomon

3.68

Format: 368 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • school
  • 19th century
  • historical
  • fiction
"I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth."

-Frank Norris, McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (Signet Classics)

Cover of Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts by Carolyn L. Karcher, Catharine Maria Sedgwick

2. Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

By: Carolyn L. Karcher , Catharine Maria Sedgwick

3.37

Format: 399 pages, Paperback

Set in seventeenth-century New England in the aftermath of the Pequod War, Hope Leslie not only chr… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • school
  • 19th century
  • college
  • fiction
"Marriage is not essential to the contentment, the dignity, or the happiness of woman."

-Carolyn L. Karcher, Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

"It is unnecessary to heighten the glory of day by comparing it with the preceding twilight."

-Carolyn L. Karcher, Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

"All these many-coloured feelings fell... like light on a black surface, producing no change, meeting no return."

-Carolyn L. Karcher, Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

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3. Our Nig

By: Harriet E. Wilson , P. Gabrielle Foreman , Reginald Pitts

3.55

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

Our Nig is the tale of a mixed-race girl, Frado, abandoned by her white mother after the death of t… read more

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  • 19th century
  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
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4. Benito Cereno

By: Herman Melville , Wyn Kelley

3.60

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

"What has cast such a shadow upon you?" "The Negro." With its intense mix of mystery, adventure, an… read more

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  • 19th century
  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
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5. Hobomok Other Writings on Indians by Lydia Maria Child

By: Carolyn L. Karcher , Lydia Maria Child

4.16

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times is the provocative story of an upperclass white woman who marries an… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • school
  • 19th century
  • historical
  • college
  • fiction
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6. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

By: Frederick Douglass

4.11

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more

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  • classics
  • school
"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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7. The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)

By: James Fenimore Cooper

3.70

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans … read more

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  • historical
  • classics
  • fiction
  • american
"Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?"

-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)

"Do my brothers know the name of this favored people?"

-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)

"Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!"

-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)

"Indijanac je stvorenje što ćete ga prije osjetiti nego vidjeti."

-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)

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8. King Lear

By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
"Fortune love you."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"She is herself a dowry."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"All dark and comfortless."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"Nothing can come of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

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9. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

Cover of Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockden Brown, Norman S. Grabo

10. Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker

By: Charles Brockden Brown , Norman S. Grabo

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of the first American Gothic novels, Edgar Huntly(1787) mirrors the social and political temper… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
  • american

11. The Blithedale Romance

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

Large Format for easy reading. Classic novel set in 19th-century New England, and drawing on the au… read more

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12. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel

4.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more

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13. The Coquette

By: Cathy N. Davidson , Hannah Webster Foster

4.10

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

The Coquette tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poe… read more

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14. The Price of Salt, or Carol

By: Patricia Highsmith , Claire Morgan

4.02

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Patricia Highsmith's story of sexual obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely … read more

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  • historical
  • classics
  • fiction
"She hated cleaning up after making something."

-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol

"Love was supposed to be a kind of blissful insanity."

-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol

"It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?"

-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol

"What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow?"

-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol

15. King Henry IV, Part 1 (Wars of the Roses, #2)

By: William Shakespeare , David Scott Kastan

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry … read more

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16. Metamorphoses

By: Ovid , David Raeburn , Denis Feeney

3.99

Format: 240 pages,

Metamorphoses (from Greek meta meta and morphe morphe, meaning "changes of shape"), is a Latin narr… read more

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17. Charlotte Temple

By: Cathy N. Davidson , Susanna Rowson

3.64

Format: 216 pages,

Charlotte Temple, a "best seller" that went through more than 200 editions, was the most popular Am… read more

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18. Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life

By: Herman Melville , John Bryant

3.56

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Typee is a fast-moving adventure tale, an autobiographical account of the author's Polynesian stay,… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
  • american
"Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking."

-Herman Melville, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life

19. Richard II

By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill , None

3.91

Format: 385 pages, Paperback

Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be … read more

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20. Ramona

By: Helen Hunt Jackson , Michael Dorris , Valerie Sherer Mathes

3.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of the greatest ethical novels of the nineteenth century, this is a tale of true love tested. S… read more

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21. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

By: Ilyon Woo

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more

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3.68

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3.37

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3.55

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3.60

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4.43

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Jesmyn Ward

3.70

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