11 Top 19th century books like Persuasion by Jane Austen, James Kinsley, Deidre Shauna Lynch

Cover of Persuasion by Jane Austen, James Kinsley, Deidre Shauna Lynch

Persuasion

By: Jane Austen , James Kinsley , Deidre Shauna Lynch

4.15

Format: 249 pages, Paperback

Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, co…

"Time will explain."

-Jane Austen, Persuasion

"Time will explain."

-Jane Austen, Persuasion

"Give him a book, and he will read all day long."

-Jane Austen, Persuasion

"Give him a book, and he will read all day long."

-Jane Austen, Persuasion

If you liked the 19th century plot in Persuasion by Jane Austen, James Kinsley, Deidre Shauna Lynch , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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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  • classics
  • british literature
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  • historical
  • 19th century
  • classic literature
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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

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2. Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Brontë , Michael Mason

4.15

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

Alternate editions can be found here and here. A gothic masterpiece of tempestuous passions and … read more

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  • classics
  • literature
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"Never,"

-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"You are human and fallible."

-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"Conventionality is not morality."

-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"Beauty is in the eye of the gazer."

-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Cover of Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, Tim Dolin, Margaret R. Higonnet

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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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • historical
  • 19th century
  • classic literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"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

Cover of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Richard J. Dunn

4. Wuthering Heights

By: Emily Brontë , Richard J. Dunn

3.89

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

You can find the redesigned cover of this edition HERE. At the centre of this novel is the passi… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • historical
  • 19th century
  • classic literature
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  • historical fiction
"Terror made me cruel . . ."

-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

"He’s more myself than I am"

-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

"She burned too bright for this world."

-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

"Honest people don't hide their deeds."

-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

Cover of Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, Maureen Howard

5. Mrs. Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature
"Life stand still here."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What a lark! What a plunge!"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"To love makes one solitary."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

Cover of Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) by L.M. Montgomery

6. Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

By: L.M. Montgomery

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This heartwarming story has beckoned generations of readers into the special world of Green Gables,… read more

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  • classics
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"I love a book that makes me cry."

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

"Red hair is my life long sorrow."

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

"All i want is a dress with puffy sleaves"

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

"True friends are always together in spirit."

-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

Cover of North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, Alan Shelston

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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  • classics
  • literature
  • historical
  • 19th century
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Villette by Charlotte Brontë, A.S. Byatt, Μαρία Λαϊνά, Ignes Sodre

8. Villette

By: Charlotte Brontë , A.S. Byatt , Μαρία Λαϊνά , Ignes Sodre

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Bronte's final novel … read more

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  • literature
  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë, Stevie Davies

9. 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
  • historical
  • 19th century
  • classic literature
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, Maureen Howard

10. 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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  • literature
  • historical
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  • historical fiction

11. Rebecca

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.93

Format: 245 pages, ebook

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . . The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our hero… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Persuasion by Jane Austen, James Kinsley, Deidre Shauna Lynch

12. Persuasion

By: Jane Austen , James Kinsley , Deidre Shauna Lynch

4.15

Format: 249 pages, Paperback

Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, co… read more

Similar categories in Jane Austen's Persuasion book and Jane Austen's Persuasion

  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • historical
  • 19th century
  • classic literature
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Time will explain."

-Jane Austen, Persuasion

"Give him a book, and he will read all day long."

-Jane Austen, Persuasion

"No one can withstand the charm of such a mystery."

-Jane Austen, Persuasion

"He had an affectionate heart.  He must love somebody."

-Jane Austen, Persuasion

Cover of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

13. The Secret Garden

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett

4.16

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

In a house full of sadness and secrets, can young, orphaned Mary find happiness? Mary Lennox, a … read more

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  • classics
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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Might I,"

-Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

"They're a pair of young Satans."

-Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

"You said th' Magic was in my back. Th' doctor calls it rheumatics."

-Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

"If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden."

-Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

14. A Room with a View

By: E.M. Forster

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

'"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly,… read more

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Cover of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

15. Little Women

By: Louisa May Alcott

4.16

Format: 449 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451529305. Generations of readers young and old, … read more

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  • historical
  • classic literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"I hate ordinary people!"

-Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

"Let us be elegant or die!"

-Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

"Love covers a multitude of sins…"

-Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

"Conceit spoils the finest genius."

-Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Cover of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

16. Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

3.79

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to a… read more

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  • british literature
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  • 19th century
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"We need never be ashamed of our tears."

-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

"You are in every line I have ever read."

-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

"It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home."

-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

"Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her."

-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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17. 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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  • british literature
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  • 19th century
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"After all, the true seeing is within."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I protest against any absolute conclusion."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

Cover of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude

18. Anna Karenina

By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude

4.09

Format: 964 pages, Paperback

Acclaimed by many as the world's greatest novel, Anna Karenina provides a vast panorama of contempo… read more

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  • historical
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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Love those you hate you."

-Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

"And where love ends, hate begins"

-Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

"Everything intelligent is so boring."

-Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

"Anything is better than lies and deceit!"

-Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

19. 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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20. The Picture of Dorian Gray

By: Oscar Wilde

4.13

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Oscar Wilde’s only novel is the dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth… read more

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  • literature
  • 19th century
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"To define is to limit."

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"All art is quite useless."

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"What fire does not destroy, it hardens"

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Cover of Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

21. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

3.87

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780143131847. Mary Shelley's seminal novel of t… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
"I am malicious because I am miserable"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"One wondering thought pollutes the day"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

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3.71

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Jane Eyre

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4.15

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Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Margaret R. Higonnet

3.83

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3.89

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4.15

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Wuthering Heights

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3.89

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4.29

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3.70

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