Fiction from the long 19th-century: 1789-1914
(Mostly) Victorian Literature Public
Created by dorapine
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The American Senator by Anthony Trollope (The Penguin Trollope, #38)
It's hunting season in more ways than one in the English countryside, and everyone struggles to position themselves to win …
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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella …
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Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and his first major literary success. It originally appeared …
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North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in …
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New Grub Street by George Gissing
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Scholarly, anxious Edwin Reardon had achieved a precarious career as the writer of serious fiction. On the strength of critical …
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No Name is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1862. Illegitimacy is a major theme of the novel. …
