11 Top victorian books like Adam Bede by George Eliot, Joanna Trollope, Hugh Osborne

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

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…

"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

If you liked the victorian plot in Adam Bede by George Eliot, Joanna Trollope, Hugh Osborne , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Miss Mackenzie by Anthony Trollope, A.O.J. Cockshut, O.A.J. Cockshut

1. Miss Mackenzie

By: Anthony Trollope , A.O.J. Cockshut , O.A.J. Cockshut

3.93

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

In "Miss Mackenzie" Trollope made a deliberate attempt "to prove that a novel may be produced witho… read more

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  • romance
  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • literature
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
Cover of Bleak House by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, Nicola Bradbury

2. 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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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"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

Cover of Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

3. 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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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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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

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4. The Trumpet-Major

By: Thomas Hardy

3.69

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

Anne Garland, who lives with her widowed mother in a mill owned by Miller Loveday, has three suitor… read more

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  • romance
  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • literature
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • english literature
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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5. 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
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • english literature
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"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 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
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Villette by Charlotte Brontë, A.S. Byatt, Μαρία Λαϊνά, Ignes Sodre

7. 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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  • romance
  • classics
  • 19th century
  • literature
  • victorian
  • fiction
Cover of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, Patricia Ingham

8. 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
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy, Patricia Ingham

9. 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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  • romance
  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • literature
  • victorian
  • fiction
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
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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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12. 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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13. A Pair of Blue Eyes

By: Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Alan Manford

3.17

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

Elfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Corwall … read more

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

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

Similar categories in George Eliot's Adam Bede book and George Eliot's Adam Bede

  • romance
  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • literature
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • english literature
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"She hates everything that is not what she longs for."

-George Eliot, Adam Bede

"Our deeds determine us, as long as we determine our deeds"

-George Eliot, Adam Bede

"Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle."

-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. Phineas Finn (Palliser, #2)

By: Anthony Trollope , John Sutherland

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

The second of Trollope's "Palliser" novels introduces its title character, Phineas Finn, a talented… 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. 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. 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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11 Top fiction books like Adam Bede by George Eliot, Joanna Trollope, Hugh Osborne

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Miss Mackenzie

Anthony Trollope , A.O.J. Cockshut , O.A.J. Cockshut

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Bleak House

Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Our Mutual Friend

Charles Dickens

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Trumpet-Major

Thomas Hardy

3.69

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Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Margaret R. Higonnet

3.83

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Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury

4.02

Transform Your Habits

North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell , Alan Shelston

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray , John Carey

4.28

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