10 Best victorian books like Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, Helen Small, Stephen Wall

Cover of Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, Helen Small, Stephen Wall

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…

"One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind."

-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

"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

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

-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

If you liked the victorian plot in Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, Helen Small, Stephen Wall , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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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  • romance
  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
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  • classic literature
  • victorian
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  • 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

Cover of North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, Alan Shelston

2. North and South

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Alan Shelston

4.15

Format: 521 pages, Paperback

When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her com… read more

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  • romance
  • classics
  • 19th century
  • literature
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

"One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

"But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be. "

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

"He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it."

-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

Cover of Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, John Carey

3. 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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  • romance
  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

4. 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
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  • historical fiction
Cover of Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3) by Anthony Trollope, Ruth Rendell

5. Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

By: Anthony Trollope , Ruth Rendell

4.14

Format: 557 pages, Paperback

A recent cover reprint for this ISBN can be found here and an older one here. Son of a bankrupt … read more

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"Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart."

-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

"Mary, it must be remembered, was very nearly of the same age as Frank; but, as I and others have so often said before, 'Women grow on the sunny side of the wall."

-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

"Buying and selling is good and necessary; it is very necessary, and may, possibly, be very good; but it cannot be the noblest work of man; and let us hope that it may not in our time be esteemed the …"

-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

"Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for sh…"

-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

Cover of Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, Helen Small, Stephen Wall

6. 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

Similar categories in Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit book and Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit

  • romance
  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • literature
  • classic literature
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"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

Cover of Daniel Deronda by George Eliot, Edmund White

7. 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
Cover of Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell, Angus Easson

8. Ruth

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Angus Easson

5.00

Format: None pages,

* Two of English writer Elizabeth Gaskell's best-selling books are bound together in this Kindle bo… read more

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  • romance
  • classics
  • 19th century
  • literature
  • victorian
  • fiction
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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. The Last Chronicle of Barset (Chronicles of Barsetshire #6)

By: Anthony Trollope , None

4.01

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

When Reverend Josiah Crawley, the impoverished curate of Hogglestock, is accused of theft it causes… read more

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14. 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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Cover of The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot, A.S. Byatt

15. 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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  • british literature
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  • 19th century
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"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

16. Charles Dickens

By: Claire Tomalin

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The tumultuous life of England's greatest novelist, beautifully rendered by unparalleled literary b… read more

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Cover of Middlemarch by Michel Faber, George Eliot

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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"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 Mayor of Casterbridge

By: Thomas Hardy , Keith Wilson

4.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

'I've not always been what I am now' In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and… read more

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19. 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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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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Transform Your Habits

Agnes Grey

Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

Transform Your Habits

North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell , Alan Shelston

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Vanity Fair

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4.28

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Anthony Trollope

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3.39

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Bleak House

Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury

4.02

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3.69

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3.83

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