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Tess of the D’Urbervilles Summary
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy 1891 518 pages
3.84
300k+ ratings
Classics
Romance
Literature
North and South Summary
North and South
by Elizabeth Gaskell 1855 521 pages
4.15
100k+ ratings
Classics
Romance
Historical Fiction
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Summary
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by Anne Brontë 1848 576 pages
4.04
100k+ ratings
Classics
Romance
Gothic
Agnes Grey Summary
Agnes Grey
by Anne Brontë 1847 226 pages
3.71
83k+ ratings
Classics
Romance
19th Century
The Professor Summary
The Professor
by Charlotte Brontë 1857 269 pages
3.54
30k+ ratings
Classics
Romance
Victorian
Cranford Summary
Cranford
by Elizabeth Gaskell 1853 257 pages
3.83
48k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Victorian
Middlemarch Summary
Middlemarch
by George Eliot 1872 912 pages
4.04
100k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
Villette Summary
Villette
by Charlotte Brontë 1853 573 pages
3.78
81k+ ratings
Classics
Romance
19th Century
The Return of the Native Summary
The Return of the Native
by Thomas Hardy 1878 426 pages
3.88
40k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
19th Century
Bleak House Summary
Bleak House
by Charles Dickens 1853 1017 pages
4.02
100k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
19th Century
Far From the Madding Crowd Summary
Far From the Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardy 1874 433 pages
3.97
100k+ ratings
Classics
Romance
Historical Fiction
The Woman in White Summary
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins 1859 672 pages
4.02
100k+ ratings
Classics
Mystery
Gothic
Jude the Obscure Summary
Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy 1895 310 pages
3.84
76k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
19th Century
Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood Summary
Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood
by James Malcolm Rymer 1845 809 pages
3.40
1k+ ratings
Horror
Vampires
Classics
The Mayor of Casterbridge Summary
The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy 1886 393 pages
3.87
66k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
19th Century
Hard Times Summary
Hard Times
by Charles Dickens 1854 384 pages
3.55
75k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
19th Century
The Pickwick Papers Summary
The Pickwick Papers
by Charles Dickens 1837 801 pages
3.85
32k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
19th Century
The Invisible Woman Summary
The Invisible Woman
by Claire Tomalin 1990 384 pages
3.75
1k+ ratings
Biography
History
Biography Memoir
Nicholas Nickleby Summary
Nicholas Nickleby
by Charles Dickens 1839 817 pages
3.95
47k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
19th Century
The Old Curiosity Shop Summary
The Old Curiosity Shop
by Charles Dickens 1840 576 pages
3.79
24k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
19th Century
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope by Anthony Trollope Summary
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope by Anthony Trollope
Society's Mirror: Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now
by Anthony Trollope 1875 440 pages
4.09
14k+ ratings
Classics
Victorian
19th Century
The Hunter Summary
The Hunter
by Kerrigan Byrne 2016 412 pages
4.08
9k+ ratings
Historical Romance
Romance
Historical
Mary Barton Summary
Mary Barton
by Elizabeth Gaskell 1848 480 pages
3.75
21k+ ratings
Classics
Victorian
Historical Fiction
Silas Marner Summary
Silas Marner
by George Eliot 1861 262 pages
3.70
94k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Historical Fiction
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion Summary
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion
Vol. 7
by Beth Brower 2023 313 pages
4.72
31k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Romance
Historical
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion Summary
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion
Vol. 8
by Beth Brower 2024 339 pages
4.73
29k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Romance
Historical
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