13 best-selling classics books like A Rogue's Life by Wilkie Collins

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A Rogue's Life

By: Wilkie Collins

3.59

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

A delightful tale of thwarted ambition and forbidden love, A Rogue's Lifefollows the fortunes of an…

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Cover of Florida Roadkill (Serge Storms, #1) by Tim Dorsey

1. Florida Roadkill (Serge Storms, #1)

By: Tim Dorsey

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Sunshine State trivia buff Serge A. Storms loves eliminating jerks and pests. His drug-addled partn… read more

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  • mystery
  • humor
  • fiction
"That, and the untended mental health problems. We have all these insane armed hobos coming from the Midwest, usually Ohio. Fuck Ohio."

-Tim Dorsey, Florida Roadkill (Serge Storms, #1)

"The television was on Florida Cable News. A gray-haired man behind the anchor desk reported near tragedy at a state motor vehicle office, where a man who had failed the eye exam pulled a gun and fire…"

-Tim Dorsey, Florida Roadkill (Serge Storms, #1)

"A strip club is one of the few places where two groups voluntarily come together who have such precipitous contrasts in net worth and familiarity with violence, each group with a head-and-shoulders e…"

-Tim Dorsey, Florida Roadkill (Serge Storms, #1)

"There was no Disney World then, just rows of orange trees. Millions of them. Stretching for miles And somewhere near the middle was the Citrus Tower, which the tourists climbed to see even more orang…"

-Tim Dorsey, Florida Roadkill (Serge Storms, #1)

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2. The Glimpses of the Moon

By: Edith Wharton , Regina Barreca

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Set in the 1920s, Glimpses of the Moon details the romantic misadventures of Nick Lansing and Susy … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Сюзи Бранч по мужски относилась к данному слову..."

-Edith Wharton, The Glimpses of the Moon

"О, благословенная нравственная свобода, которую дарует богатство!"

-Edith Wharton, The Glimpses of the Moon

"...её... память не соответствовала широте её интересов. (О миссис Хикс)"

-Edith Wharton, The Glimpses of the Moon

"...жить, как живут рабочие, в двух комнатах, без прислуги... (Сюзи Бранч - Стреффорду)"

-Edith Wharton, The Glimpses of the Moon

Cover of Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1) by P.G. Wodehouse

3. Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.11

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

One thing that constantly disrupts the peace of life at Blandings is the constant incursion of impo… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • humor
  • fiction
"... обнадеждена безнадеждност..."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

"Всяко нещо струва толкова, за колкото може да се купи."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

"... да се прокрадва крадешком и да се мотае мотешком..."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

"Госпожица Уилоуби не обичаше провинцията. Намираше я за провинциална."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

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4. Old New York

By: Edith Wharton

4.04

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Spanning four decades in the mid-nineteenth century, the interconnected novellas of Old New York la… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I hate in-the-end kindnesses: they're about as nourishing as the third day of cold mutton."

-Edith Wharton, Old New York

"Among all these stupid pretty women she had such a sense of power, of knowing almost everything better than they did."

-Edith Wharton, Old New York

"The "Hazeldean heart" was a proverbial boast in the family; the Hazeldeans privately considered it more distinguished than the Sillerton gout, and far more refined than the Wesson liver; and it had p…"

-Edith Wharton, Old New York

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5. The Cricket on the Hearth

By: Charles Dickens

3.45

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

Dickens gave his first formal expression to his Christmas thoughts in his series of small books, th… read more

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  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • classics
  • fiction
"I must bear the consequences as I deserve!"

-Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth

"Gruff and Tackleton was also there, doing the agreeable; with the evident sensation of being as perfectly at home, and as unquestionably in his own element, as a fresh young salmon on the top of the …"

-Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth

Cover of Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, None, John       Bowen

6. 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
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. 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
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. The Poor Clare

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

3.92

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

A departure from the stories Elizabeth Gaskell wrote for Charles Dickens's Household Wordsmagazine,… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Sir Harry Hotspur Of Humblethwaite by Anthony Trollope

9. Sir Harry Hotspur Of Humblethwaite

By: Anthony Trollope

2.50

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Since its first appearance in 1870, this has been regarded as one of Trollope's finest short novels… read more

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  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • classics
  • fiction
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10. The Unknown Ajax

By: Georgette Heyer

3.50

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

Miles from anywhere, Darracott Place is presided over by irascible Lord Darracott. The recent drown… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. 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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  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Europeans by Henry James, Tony Tanner, Patricia Crick

12. The Europeans

By: Henry James , Tony Tanner , Patricia Crick

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eugenia, the daughter of American expatriates, is the morganatic wife of a German prince, who is be… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of A Soupçon of Poison (Kat Holloway, #0.5) by Jennifer Ashley, Ashley Gardner

13. A Soupçon of Poison (Kat Holloway, #0.5)

By: Jennifer Ashley , Ashley Gardner

3.81

Format: 225 pages,

Note: This work also appears in the anthology, Murder Most Historical. London, 1880 Kat Holloway, … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of A Rogue's Life by Wilkie Collins

14. A Rogue's Life

By: Wilkie Collins

3.59

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

A delightful tale of thwarted ambition and forbidden love, A Rogue's Lifefollows the fortunes of an… read more

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  • classics
  • 19th century
  • humor
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
Cover of Framley Parsonage (Chronicles of Barsetshire #4) by Anthony Trollope

15. 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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  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • classics
  • fiction

16. Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey, #6)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

3.40

Format: 96 pages,

Mystery novelist Harriet Vane knew all about poisons, and when her fiance died in the manner prescr… read more

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17. 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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18. 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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19. 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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20. 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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21. Lady Anna

By: Anthony Trollope

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

When it appeared in 1874 "Lady Anna" met with little success, and positively outraged readers, but … read more

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22. 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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23. Washington Square

By: Henry James , Michael Cunningham

3.89

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

The plot of Washington Squarehas the simplicity of old-fashioned melodrama: a plain-looking, good-h… read more

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24. A Damsel in Distress

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.39

Format: None pages, Paperback

P.G. Wodehouse is at his whimsical best as the characters of Belpher Castle muddle through impendin… read more

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25. The Return of the Native

By: Thomas Hardy , Alexander Theroux

3.57

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

The Return of the Nativeis a work by Thomas Hardy now brought to you in this new edition of the tim… read more

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26. Death Below Stairs (Kat Holloway, #1)

By: Jennifer Ashley

3.25

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Victorian class lines are crossed when cook Kat Holloway is drawn into a murder that reaches all th… read more

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27. 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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28. 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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29. Cluny Brown

By: Margery Sharp

2.83

Format: 288 pages,

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30. 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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31. Where Angels Fear to Tread

By: E.M. Forster

3.60

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

Chaperoned by her young friend Caroline Abbott, free-spirited, recently widowed Lilia Herriton jour… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"We were mad - drunk with rebellion."

-E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread

"In Rome one had simply to sit still and feel."

-E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread

"Pretty things pack just the same as ugly ones."

-E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread

"Mr. Herriton, don’t – please, Mr. Herriton – a dentist. His father’s a dentist."

-E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread

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4.11

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3.71

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4.06

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3.31

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