9 Best 19th century books like Felix Holt: The Radical by George Eliot, Lynda Mugglestone

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

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…

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

-George Eliot, Felix Holt: The Radical

"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

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

-George Eliot, Felix Holt: The Radical

If you liked the 19th century plot in Felix Holt: The Radical by George Eliot, Lynda Mugglestone , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

1. 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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  • classics
  • british literature
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  • 19th century
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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

Cover of The Tuttle Twins and the Miraculous Pencil (Tuttle Twins, #2) by Connor Boyack

2. The Tuttle Twins and the Miraculous Pencil (Tuttle Twins, #2)

By: Connor Boyack

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

Did you know that nobody on this earth knows how to make something as simple as a pencil? It's true… read more

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  • politics
  • fiction
Cover of Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3) by Anthony Trollope, Ruth Rendell

3. 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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"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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4. 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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  • british literature
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  • 19th century
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5. Hard Times

By: Charles Dickens , Gage McWeeny

4.33

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Hard Times, by Charles Dickens, edited by Jeff Nunokawa, in… read more

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Cover of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, Patricia Ingham

6. Martin Chuzzlewit

By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Patricia Ingham

3.64

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Set partly in the United States, this novel includes a searing satire on mid-nineteenth-century Ame… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
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  • historical fiction
Cover of The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy, Patricia Ingham

7. 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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  • british literature
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  • 19th century
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Cover of Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell, Angus Easson

8. 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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  • victorian
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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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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

Similar categories in George Eliot's Felix Holt: The Radical book and George Eliot's Felix Holt: The Radical

  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • politics
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • english literature
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"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. 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. 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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15. 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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16. 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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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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19. 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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20. The Long Vacation

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

3.75

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteer… read more

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3.82

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3.71

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3.83

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3.79

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