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…
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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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"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
2. The Woman in White
By: Wilkie Collins , Matthew Sweet
4.01
Format: 672 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: Alternate covers can be found here and here. 'In one moment, every drop of blood… read more
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"I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!"-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"... our endurance must end, and our resistance begin, to-day."-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"You don’t have to speak at all— I know what you’d say… - Laura"-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
3. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
By: Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Margaret R. Higonnet
3.83
Format: 518 pages, Paperback
Alternate covers can be found here and here. When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty t… read more
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"Bless thy simplicity, Tess"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"One thing he certainly was— sincere."-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"The roof was a gymnasium for the winds"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"Tess was carried along the wings of the hours"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
4. Bleak House
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury
4.02
Format: 1017 pages, Paperback
The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic… read more
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"You can be nothing better than yourself; be that [...]"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is!"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
5. Our Mutual Friend
By: Charles Dickens
4.09
Format: 801 pages, Paperback
A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the in… read more
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"I really am a little afraid, my dear,"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
"Eugene, Eugene, Eugene, this is a bad business!"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
"Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
"Demon—with the highest respect for you—behold your work!"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
6. 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
7. 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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"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
8. Vanity Fair
By: William Makepeace Thackeray , John Carey
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
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9. 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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10. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
By: Anne Brontë , Stevie Davies
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
Note: Editions of The Tenant that start with: "You must go back with me..." are incomplete. Actual … read more
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11. 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
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"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
12. The Age of Innocence
By: Edith Wharton , Maureen Howard
2.64
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocenceis Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of des… read more
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13. Mansfield Park
By: Jane Austen
3.87
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich … read more
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"I was quiet, but I was not blind."-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
14. 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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15. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
By: Henry Fielding , Thomas Keymer , Alice Wakely
3.17
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is… read more
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16. 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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"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
17. The Portrait of a Lady
By: Henry James , Patricia Crick
3.79
Format: 797 pages, Paperback
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more
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"She has only one fault; too many ideas."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
18. 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
19. 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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20. Far from the Madding Crowd
By: Thomas Hardy , Rosemarie Morgan , Shannon Russell
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
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21. Howards End
By: E.M. Forster
3.96
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
A már életében klasszikusnak számító angol írónak ez volt a negyedik, a kritikusok szerint a legjob… read more
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"So never give in,"-E.M. Forster, Howards End
"Tulips were a tray of jewels."-E.M. Forster, Howards End
"Love and Truth, their warfare seems eternal."-E.M. Forster, Howards End
"Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him."-E.M. Forster, Howards End