Reading List · Victorian Fiction
Victorian novelists mapped the tensions between individual desire and social expectation with unrivalled depth. Two free classics from Cyber Library, two essential annotated editions.
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My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so pe...
Dorothea Brooke's idealism and Lydgate's medical ambitions collide in a richly observed provincial town.
Southern Margaret Hale moves north and clashes with mill-owner Thornton — Pride and Prejudice with a factory.