11 best-selling victorian books like Can You Forgive Her? (Palliser, #1) by Anthony Trollope, Stephen Wall

Cover of Can You Forgive Her? (Palliser, #1) by Anthony Trollope, Stephen Wall

Can You Forgive Her? (Palliser, #1)

By: Anthony Trollope , Stephen Wall

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright…

If you liked the victorian plot in Can You Forgive Her? (Palliser, #1) by Anthony Trollope, Stephen Wall , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Bleak House by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, Nicola Bradbury

1. 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
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"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

Cover of Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

2. Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

4.09

Format: 801 pages, Paperback

A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the in… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I really am a little afraid, my dear,"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

"Eugene, Eugene, Eugene, this is a bad business!"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

"Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

"Demon—with the highest respect for you—behold your work!"

-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

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3. Armadale

By: John Sutherland , Wilkie Collins

3.94

Format: 721 pages, Paperback

When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"A judge, replied the Empress, is easy to be had, but to get an impartial judge, is a thing so difficult."

-John Sutherland, Armadale

"The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!"

-John Sutherland, Armadale

"...that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other..."

-John Sutherland, Armadale

"Allan found his place for the second time, and fell headlong into the bottomless abyss of the English Law. “Page 280,"

-John Sutherland, Armadale

Cover of Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, John Carey

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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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. 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
Cover of Can You Forgive Her? (Palliser, #1) by Anthony Trollope, Stephen Wall

6. Can You Forgive Her? (Palliser, #1)

By: Anthony Trollope , Stephen Wall

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Trollope's Can You Forgive Her? (Palliser, #1) book and Anthony Trollope's Can You Forgive Her? (Palliser, #1)

  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson, Angus Ross

7. Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady

By: Samuel Richardson , Angus Ross

4.33

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, Helen Small, Stephen Wall

8. Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens , Helen Small , Stephen Wall

4.00

Format: 1021 pages, Paperback

A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs ove… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind."

-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

"We must have humbug, we all like humbug, we couldn't get on without humbug."

-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

"[...] this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world."

-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

"[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay."

-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

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9. The Woodlanders

By: Thomas Hardy , Patricia Ingham

2.84

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

In this classically simple tale of the disastrous impact of outside life on a secluded community in… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
Cover of Daniel Deronda by George Eliot, Edmund White

10. Daniel Deronda

By: George Eliot , Edmund White

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

George Eliot's final novel and her most ambitious work, Daniel Derondacontrasts the moral laxity of… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • 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. Wives and Daughters

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Pam Morris

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, Wives and Daughterscentres on the story of yout… read more

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13. 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
  • 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

Cover of Adam Bede by George Eliot, Joanna Trollope, Hugh Osborne

14. Adam Bede

By: George Eliot , Joanna Trollope , Hugh Osborne

3.82

Format: 624 pages, Paperback

The story of a beautiful country girl's seduction by the local squire and its bitter, tragic sequel… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"She hates everything that is not what she longs for."

-George Eliot, Adam Bede

"Our deeds determine us, as long as we determine our deeds"

-George Eliot, Adam Bede

"Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle."

-George Eliot, Adam Bede

"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."

-George Eliot, Adam Bede

15. Two on a Tower

By: Thomas Hardy

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful y… read more

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16. Wild Strawberries (Barsetshire, #2)

By: Angela Thirkell

3.69

Format: 227 pages, Paperback

Action in Thirkells second Barsetshire novel centres around the extended family of the Leslies of R… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
"What does Mrs Preston want to go abroad for?' asked Mr Leslie. 'I think her doctor wanted her to, Father,' said Agnes. 'Doctors!' said Mr Leslie, wiping the whole of the Royal College of Physicians o…"

-Angela Thirkell, Wild Strawberries (Barsetshire, #2)

"...And of course they'll get their milk from us, because Gooch's milk in the village really can't be trusted. I do hope, Henry, the vicarage drains are all right if Martin is to go there, because the…"

-Angela Thirkell, Wild Strawberries (Barsetshire, #2)

"Perhaps as one gets older one takes one's joys altruistically,"said John, in turn thinking aloud. "I must say though I sometimes wish I could get it selfishly, just for myself, as Gay used to give me…"

-Angela Thirkell, Wild Strawberries (Barsetshire, #2)

"Henry, you mustn’t mind. It is really a kindness to have him.’ ‘Well, I do mind, Emily,’ said Mr Leslie, getting up. ‘Kindness is one thing and your family is another. You treat this house as if it w…"

-Angela Thirkell, Wild Strawberries (Barsetshire, #2)

17. No Name

By: Wilkie Collins , None

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Mr Vanstone's daughters are Nobody's Children'. Magdalen Vanstone and her sister Norah learn the t… read more

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18. 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
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • 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

19. Dombey and Son

By: Jonathan Lethem , Charles Dickens

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens's story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family trigg… read more

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20. Under the Greenwood Tree

By: Thomas Hardy

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

Under the Greenwood Treeis the story of the romantic entanglement between church musician, Dick Dew… read more

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21. Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

By: Cindy Rollins

4.75

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Being a mom can sometimes feel like an overwhelming job with endless tasks and lofty, unattainable … read more

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"The truth is that all humans are always seeing something, paying attention to something, learning something. Perhaps, we are learning every sort of sexual innuendo known to man by watching endless re…"

-Cindy Rollins, Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

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Bleak House

Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury

4.02

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Our Mutual Friend

Charles Dickens

4.09

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Armadale

John Sutherland , Wilkie Collins

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray , John Carey

4.28

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Agnes Grey

Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

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North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell , Alan Shelston

4.15

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Vanity Fair

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4.28

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