9 Best historical books like Smoky-House by Elizabeth Goudge

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Smoky-House

By: Elizabeth Goudge

4.01

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Spring had come again to Faraway, and the men and women and children of the village, as they went a…

If you liked the historical plot in Smoky-House by Elizabeth Goudge , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2) by Dorothy L. Sayers

1. Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Rustic old Riddlesdale Lodge was a Wimsey family retreat filled with country pleasures and the thri… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
"Fou!"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"Boil my brains!"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"I am abso-bally-lutely positive"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

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2. Life Among the Savages

By: Shirley Jackson

3.94

Format: None pages,

Shirley Jackson, author of the classic short story The Lottery, was known for her terse, haunting p… read more

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3. The Blue Castle

By: L.M. Montgomery

3.94

Format: 255 pages,

Valancy lives a drab life with her overbearing mother and prying aunt. Then a shocking diagnosis fr… read more

Similar categories in L.M. Montgomery's The Blue Castle book and Elizabeth Goudge's Smoky-House

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)

By: Agatha Christie

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Wickedness...such wickedness...." The dying woman turned to Father Gorman with agony in her eyes.… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
"After all, the stupidest child can set a house on fire quite easily."

-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)

"Being in love has a very bad effect on men - it seems to addle their wits."

-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)

"People are so proud of wickedness. Odd, isn't it, that people who are good are never proud of it? That's where Christian humility comes in, I suppose. They don't even know they are good."

-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)

"Evil is not something superhuman, it's something LESS than human. Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who never will be important, because he'll always be less than a man."

-Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)

Cover of Murder Must Advertise  (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10) by Dorothy L. Sayers

5. Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.17

Format: 356 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When ad man Victor Dean falls down the stairs in the offices of Pym's Publicity, a respectable Lond… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
"How do you do?"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

"Bredon shuddered. “I think this is an awfully immoral job of ours. I do, really. Think how we spoil the digestions of the public."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

"It's a curious thing, but people cannot resist anonymous letters. It's like free sample offers. They appeal to all one's lower instincts."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

"The interview with the cat had been particularly full of appeal. The animal was, it seemed, an illustrious rat-catcher, with many famous deeds to her credit. Not only that, but she had been the first…"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

Cover of Winter in Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #2) by Miss Read

6. Winter in Thrush Green (Thrush Green, #2)

By: Miss Read

3.70

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

In the follow-up to Thrush Green, the arrival of a stranger in the village stirs ripples of specula… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature

7. To the Ends of the Earth

By: Elizabeth Lowell

3.00

Format: 282 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Librarian's Note: Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found . New York Timesbestselling author El… read more

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8. Lolly Willowes

By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more

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9. Quartet in Autumn

By: Barbara Pym

3.90

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature

10. The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #4)

By: Agatha Christie

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

The placid village of Lymstock seems the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his acci… read more

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11. Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4)

By: Agatha Christie

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

An elderly lady is on her way to Scotland Yard to report several murders in her village. "It is ver… read more

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12. Howards End

By: E.M. Forster

3.96

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

A már életében klasszikusnak számító angol írónak ez volt a negyedik, a kritikusok szerint a legjob… read more

Similar categories in E.M. Forster's Howards End book and Elizabeth Goudge's Smoky-House

  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
"So never give in,"

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

"Tulips were a tray of jewels."

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

"Love and Truth, their warfare seems eternal."

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

"Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him."

-E.M. Forster, Howards End

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13. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol. 1

By: Beth Brower

4.31

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

“I’ve arrived in London without incident. There are few triumphs in my recent life, but I count thi… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Volume 2

By: Beth Brower

4.63

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

“I was sitting at my desk reading, with a cup of tea, my windows flung open, when I heard The Tenan… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
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15. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

By: Beth Brower

4.75

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

"It all began very innocently. Truly." The Year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her Lon… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
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16. The Hedgewitch of Foxhall

By: Anna Bright

3.73

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

In this gorgeous stand-alone fantasy romance perfect for fans of Margaret Rogerson and Allison Saft… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. Four Gardens

By: Margery Sharp

3.94

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

She announced herself, rather self-consciously, as Mrs. Henry Smith, and he replied that Mrs. Cornw… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13) by Lois McMaster Bujold

18. Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.62

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

When Rozakajin, road-weary bandit and army deserter, spots a hapless blond young man in a country i… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846 by Alethea Hayter

19. A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846

By: Alethea Hayter

3.75

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

June 1846. As London swelters in a heatwave - sunstroke strikes, meat rots, ice is coveted - a glam… read more

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  • historical
  • british literature
Cover of Smoky-House by Elizabeth Goudge

20. Smoky-House

By: Elizabeth Goudge

4.01

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Spring had come again to Faraway, and the men and women and children of the village, as they went a… read more

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  • childrens
  • british literature
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile

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