12 must-read 19th century books like The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy, Patricia Ingham

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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…

If you liked the 19th century plot in The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy, Patricia Ingham , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin

1. Thomas Hardy

By: Claire Tomalin

4.08

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The novels of Thomas Hardy have a permanent place on every booklover's shelf, yet little is known a… read more

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  • literature
  • 19th century
  • british literature
Cover of Armadale by John Sutherland, Wilkie Collins

2. 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
"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 Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, None, John       Bowen

3. Barnaby Rudge

By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , None , John Bowen

3.72

Format: None pages,

Set against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspe… read more

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

4. 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

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
Cover of Silas Marner by George Eliot

5. Silas Marner

By: George Eliot

3.68

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwa… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
"Love once, love always"

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

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6. 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

Similar categories in Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders book and Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders

  • romance
  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • literature
  • victorian
  • fiction
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
Cover of Framley Parsonage (Chronicles of Barsetshire #4) by Anthony Trollope

8. Framley Parsonage (Chronicles of Barsetshire #4)

By: Anthony Trollope

3.00

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Fourth in the Barsetshire Chronicles, FRAMLEY PARSONAGE was published in 1860. In it the values of … read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
Cover of Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell, Angus Easson

9. 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

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. Sylvia's Lovers

By: Shirley Foster , None

4.16

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A very powerfully moving novel of a young woman caught between the attractions of two very differen… read more

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13. 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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14. 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
"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

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

-George Eliot, Adam Bede

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

-George Eliot, Adam Bede

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

-George Eliot, Adam Bede

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

-George Eliot, Adam Bede

16. Evelina

By: None , Edward A. Bloom

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

Frances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive accou… read more

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17. The Small House at Allington (Chronicles of Barsetshire #5)

By: Anthony Trollope , Julian Thompson

3.61

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

The Small House at Allingtonis the fifth book in Anthony Trollope's Barchester series. As with all … read more

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18. News from Nowhere

By: William Morris , David Leopold

3.50

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

News from Nowhere(1890) is the best-known prose work of William Morris and the only significant Eng… read more

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19. 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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20. He Knew He Was Right

By: Anthony Trollope , John Sutherland

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Louis Trevelyan seems the most fortunate of mid-Victorian gentlemen: young, rich, well-educated, ha… read more

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Cover of The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1) by Anthony Trollope, David Skilton

21. The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

By: Anthony Trollope , David Skilton

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The Warden centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in p… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
"It is much less difficult for the sufferer to be generous than for the oppressor."

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

"... In what I do I may appear to be interfering with you, and I hope you will forgive me for doing so."

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

"He never quarreled with his wife, but he never talked to her;--he never had time to talk, he was so taken up with speaking."

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

"They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts!"

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

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3.94

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Barnaby Rudge

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3.72

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Can You Forgive Her? (Palliser, #1)

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4.36

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4.02

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4.09

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The Trumpet-Major

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