11 Top classics books like Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell, Angus Easson

Cover of Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell, Angus Easson

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…

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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
  • 19th century
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  • 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 The Duke's Children (Palliser, #6) by Anthony Trollope, Dinah Birch

2. The Duke's Children (Palliser, #6)

By: Anthony Trollope , Dinah Birch

4.09

Format: 525 pages, Paperback

Plantagenet Palliser must face new challenges and a changing world if he is to hold his family toge… read more

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  • 19th century
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"There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty."

-Anthony Trollope, The Duke's Children (Palliser, #6)

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3. Basil

By: Wilkie Collins

4.40

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

In Basil's secret and unconsummated marriage to the linen-draper's sexually precocious daughter, an… read more

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  • literature
  • 19th century
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4. The Professor

By: Charlotte Brontë

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Professor is Charlotte Brontes first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and con… read more

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5. 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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  • literature
  • 19th century
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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

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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

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7. 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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"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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8. 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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9. 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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  • 19th century
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Cover of Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell, Angus Easson

10. 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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  • classics
  • 19th century
  • literature
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

11. 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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Cover of Felix Holt: The Radical by George Eliot, Lynda Mugglestone

12. Felix Holt: The Radical

By: George Eliot , Lynda Mugglestone

3.71

Format: 545 pages, Paperback

When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortu… read more

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"To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished."

-George Eliot, Felix Holt: The Radical

"There is no private life which is not determined by a wider public life."

-George Eliot, Felix Holt: The Radical

"Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug; but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm."

-George Eliot, Felix Holt: The Radical

"There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry o…"

-George Eliot, Felix Holt: The Radical

13. 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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14. Scenes of Clerical Life

By: George Eliot , None

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

My only merit must lie in the faithfulness with which I represent to you the humble experience of a… read more

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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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"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. Two on a Tower

By: Thomas Hardy

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful y… read more

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17. The Odd Women

By: George Gissing

4.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

A novel of social realism, The Odd Womenreflects the major sexual and cultural issues of the late n… read more

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18. 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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19. Jezebel's Daughter

By: Wilkie Collins

3.15

Format: 252 pages,

'The power that I have dreamed of all my life is mine at last!' How far is a mother prepared to go … read more

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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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21. 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

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The Duke's Children (Palliser, #6)

Anthony Trollope , Dinah Birch

4.09

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4.40

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3.50

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3.71

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Elizabeth Gaskell , Alan Shelston

4.15

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4.28

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