So recently I got a Penguin Classics paperback of some of Arthur Conan Doyle’s best Sherlock Holmes stories and I was instantly hooked. I am now craving more Victorian-era literature. While I could just google for it, it seems that a better idea is to ask people who have actually read books rather than sift through any lists from the genre.
Stuff I’m looking for:
\- Set in England (or perhaps the Commonwealth at large) during the Victorian age (or maybe late Georgian?)
\- Nothing like the Brontë sisters’ stuff or the like. I’m not into romance.
\- Doesn’t necessarily have to be mystery like Sherlock Holmes. I’m open to other genres other than romance.
Hit me with your suggestions and I will give you…I don’t know what I will give you.
by 123unrelated321
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Mayhew: *London Labour and the London Poor*.
More compact and wide-ranging but less anecdotal, Engels: *The Condition of the Working Class in England*.
They’re both brilliantly written.
The Victorian era covers a lot of time, Doyle is late and goes into Edwardian. There’s Wilkie Collins, Hardy, Stevenson’s Jeckyll and Hyde.
John Galsworthy’s Forsyte Saga is hard to beat if you’re looking for stories set in the Victorian to Edwardian period— the first book is A Man of Property. You’ll feel like you’ve actually lived there by the time you finished his books.