13 Best classics books like Armadale by John Sutherland, Wilkie Collins

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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…

"A judge, replied the Empress, is easy to be had, but to get an impartial judge, is a thing so difficult."

-John Sutherland, Armadale

"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

"The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!"

-John Sutherland, Armadale

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Cover of East Lynne by Mrs. Henry Wood, Elisabeth Jay

1. East Lynne

By: Mrs. Henry Wood , Elisabeth Jay

3.73

Format: 704 pages, Paperback

When the aristocratic Lady Isabel abandons her husband and children for her wicked seducer, more is… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • british literature
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  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
"Shakespeare calls jealousy yellow and green; I think it may be called black and white for it most assuredly views white as black, and black as white. The most fanciful surmises wear the aspect of tru…"

-Mrs. Henry Wood, East Lynne

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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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  • gothic
  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • literature
  • classic literature
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
"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
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  • historical fiction
Cover of Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3) by Anthony Trollope, Ruth Rendell

4. 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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  • classics
  • british literature
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  • 19th century
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  • fiction
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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)

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5. The Pickwick Papers

By: Charles Dickens , Mark Wormald

3.87

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers--a comic masterpiec… read more

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

6. 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
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  • historical fiction
Cover of The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer by Sydney Padua

7. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer

By: Sydney Padua

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

THE THRILLING ADVENTURES OF LOVELACE AND BABBAGE. . . in which Sydney Padua transforms one of the m… read more

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8. The Sisters of Alameda Street

By: Lorena Hughes

4.15

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

A generational saga that mixes historical fiction with the romance and intrigue of a Latin soap ope… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents by Ann Radcliffe, Robert Miles

9. The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents

By: Ann Radcliffe , Robert Miles

4.18

Format: 213 pages,

From the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ell… read more

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  • gothic
  • fiction
  • classics
  • literature
Cover of The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy, Patricia Ingham

10. 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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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
Cover of The Eustace Diamonds (Palliser, #3) by Anthony Trollope, John Sutherland, Stephen Gill

11. The Eustace Diamonds (Palliser, #3)

By: Anthony Trollope , John Sutherland , Stephen Gill

3.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

Following the death of her husband Sir Florian, beautiful Lizzie Eustace mysteriously comes into po… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
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  • historical fiction
Cover of Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell, Angus Easson

12. 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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  • literature
  • 19th century
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13. Uncle Silas

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu , Victor Sage

4.26

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

One of the most significant and intriguing Gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed tod… read more

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14. 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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15. Lady Audley's Secret

By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

This Victorian bestseller, along with Braddon's other famous novel, Aurora Floyd, established her a… read more

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Cover of Adam Bede by George Eliot, Joanna Trollope, Hugh Osborne

16. 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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  • british literature
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  • 19th century
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"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

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

19. 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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  • victorian
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  • historical 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)

20. 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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14 must-read fiction books like Armadale by John Sutherland, Wilkie Collins

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Mrs. Henry Wood , Elisabeth Jay

3.73

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Armadale

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3.94

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Barnaby Rudge

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3.72

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Miss Mackenzie

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3.93

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Bleak House

Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury

4.02

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Our Mutual Friend

Charles Dickens

4.09

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3.69

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