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Victorian England springs to life through sweeping tales of romance, class struggle, and social upheaval set against a backdrop of industrial revolution and rigid propriety. These masterful works explore the complex lives of memorable characters navigating love, ambition, and morality in a rapidly changing world of steam engines, country manors, and strict social codes.

Victorian Book Summaries

Tess of the D’Urbervilles Summary
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy 1891 518 pages
3.84
295.8K ratings
Classics
Literature
Historical Fiction
North and South Summary
North and South
by Elizabeth Gaskell 1855 521 pages
4.15
178.1K ratings
Romance
Historical Fiction
Classics
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Summary
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by Anne Brontë 1848 576 pages
4.02
124.7K ratings
Classics
Romance
19th Century
David Copperfield Summary
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens 1850 882 pages
4.04
251.2K ratings
Literature
Historical Fiction
19th Century
Agnes Grey Summary
Agnes Grey
by Anne Brontë 1847 226 pages
3.71
77.4K ratings
Classics
Romance
19th Century
Villette Summary
Villette
by Charlotte Brontë 1853 573 pages
3.78
77.6K ratings
Classics
Romance
19th Century
Cranford Summary
Cranford
by Elizabeth Gaskell 1853 257 pages
3.84
46.4K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Victorian
Middlemarch Summary
Middlemarch
by George Eliot 1872 912 pages
4.03
173.3K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literature
The Return of the Native Summary
The Return of the Native
by Thomas Hardy 1878 426 pages
3.88
39.7K ratings
Classics
Literature
19th Century
Jude the Obscure Summary
Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy 1895 310 pages
3.83
74.3K ratings
Classics
Literature
19th Century
We Two Summary
We Two
Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals
by Gillian Gill 2009 460 pages
3.85
8.7K ratings
History
Biography
British Literature
Far From the Madding Crowd Summary
Far From the Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardy 1874 433 pages
3.97
161.5K ratings
Classics
Romance
Historical Fiction
The Professor Summary
The Professor
by Charlotte Brontë 1857 269 pages
3.54
28.6K ratings
Classics
Romance
Victorian
The Invisible Woman Summary
The Invisible Woman
by Claire Tomalin 1990 384 pages
3.74
1.8K ratings
Biography
History
Biography Memoir
Bleak House Summary
Bleak House
by Charles Dickens 1853 1017 pages
4.02
112.5K ratings
Classics
Literature
19th Century
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