7 Top british literature books like Thomas Hardy: A Biography Revisited by Michael Millgate

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Thomas Hardy: A Biography Revisited

By: Michael Millgate

4.11

Format: 625 pages, Paperback

Michael Millgate's classic biography of Thomas Hardy, was first published in 1982. Much new informa…

If you liked the british literature plot in Thomas Hardy: A Biography Revisited by Michael Millgate , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, Maureen Howard

1. Mrs. Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more

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  • british literature
"Life stand still here."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"To love makes one solitary."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What a lark! What a plunge!"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

Cover of Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

2. Jude the Obscure

By: Thomas Hardy

3.83

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy … read more

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"Always wanting another man than your own."

-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

"But no one came. Because no one ever does."

-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

"Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in."

-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

"We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more."

-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

Cover of The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch, Mary Kinzie

3. The Sea, the Sea

By: Iris Murdoch , Mary Kinzie

3.66

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an is… read more

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  • british literature
Cover of The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy, Tim Dolin

4. The Hand of Ethelberta

By: Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Adventuress and opportunist, Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins, launching… read more

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  • british literature
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5. A Tale of Two Cities

By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Richard Maxwell

3.87

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval … read more

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"We'll start to forget a place once we left it"

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"Tell the Wind and the Fire where to stop; not me."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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6. Night and Day

By: Virginia Woolf , Julia Briggs

3.76

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between… read more

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"She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine ..."

-Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

"The only truth which she could discover was the truth of what she herself felt."

-Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

"If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?"

-Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

"What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty?"

-Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

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7. The Hours

By: None , Michael Cunningham

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, "The Hours" is the story of three women: Clarissa Vaughan,… read more

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8. 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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9. 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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10. Empire Falls

By: Richard Russo

3.57

Format: 10 pages, Paperback

Richard Russo--from his first novel, Mohawk, to his most recent, Straight Man--has demonstrated a p… read more

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Cover of Thomas Hardy: A Biography Revisited by Michael Millgate

11. Thomas Hardy: A Biography Revisited

By: Michael Millgate

4.11

Format: 625 pages, Paperback

Michael Millgate's classic biography of Thomas Hardy, was first published in 1982. Much new informa… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
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Ben Okri

3.73

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John Berger

4.03

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Peter Carey

4.75

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