Looking for books wrote in 1800’s/ Victorian era.
Edit: I’m looking for anything actually wrote in the time period so I can get an idea of linguistics. I’m writing a short story from the POV of a character living in 1855 London.
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Frankenstein
Looking for anything more specific? “Victorian” can encompass anything from Alice in Wonderland to Dracula.
Charles Dickens
The Brontës
Wilkie Collins
Anthony Trollope
Karl Marx
George McDonald
_Three Men in a Boat_ by Jerome K. Jerome
Do you have a preference for genre?
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Turn of the Screw
The Yellow Wall-Paper
The Awakening
What kind of books do you like in general?
Family/community sagas – Middlemarch by George Eliot, Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
Coming of age – Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Sci-fi – The Time Machine by HG Wells
Gothic – Dracula by Bram Stoker, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Mysteries – the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins