Victorian novels?

Question

I'm looking for i good victorian novel to read because i have to do a report for school.

I would like to read something interesting or something short in length.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Well, Victorian novels tend to be rather long - but here's a list of some very interesting ones. And number 8, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is fairly short.

1. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Marred only by the fact that Charlotte clearly liked Mr Rochester too much; but we can forgive her that. Often given to schoolchildren to read, but you have to be a grown-up to really get it. Has to be one of the most perfectly structured novels of all time.


2. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
A story of the traumas of sex and class. My favorite moment is the one where Magwitch makes his stumbling way up the shadowy staircase towards an unnerved but unsuspecting Pip: the halting but inexorable rise of the repressed 'from the darkness beneath'.


3. Vanity Fair by WM Thackeray
Deserves its spot in the top 10 if only for the wonderful Becky Sharp.


4. New Grub Street by George Gissing
A devastating study of the late-Victorian literary industry, New Grub Street still has an unnervingly modern ring. It's also a kind of anti-romance: Gissing was uncompromising in his analysis of gender relations and his exposé of the withering impact of economics upon love.


5. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Commonly thought of as 'romantic', but try rereading it without being astonished by the comfortableness with which Brontë's characters subject one another to extremes of physical and psychological violence.


6. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
The most resonant of Dickens's novels, with an elusive moral centre and a gallery of grotesques - Jenny Wren, the dolls' dressmaker; Mr Venus, articulator of human bones; the demented stalker Bradley Headstone; the loathsome Lammles - which, even by Dickensian standards, are really very grotesque indeed.


7. Dracula by Bram Stoker
An exercise in masculine anxiety and nationalist paranoia, Stoker's novel is filled with scenes that are staggeringly lurid and perverse. The one in Highgate cemetery, where Arthur and Van Helsing drive a stake through the writhing body of the vampirised Lucy Westenra, is my favourite.


8. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
A heady late-Victorian tale of double-living, in which Dorian's fatal, corruptive influence over women and men alike is left suggestively indistinct.


9. Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Another, more definitive, novel of shameful double-living. Even more so than Dorian Gray's, Mr Hyde's sordid and perhaps deviant excesses are rendered more suggestive through being left undescribed.


10. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The most popular novel of the 19th century, and still one of the best plots in English literature. Notable for its marvellous villains and, like all Collins's work, for its complex, spirited and believable female characters.

For another list (with some duplifications and with the addition of Kim by Rudyard Kipling) please see link 2

Answer 2

Technically, time wise, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is a Victorian novel. But, it's a child's novel and is rather short.

Answer 3

Literature Collection - Free literature online

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Read Free Classic Books Online

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Greco-Roman Authors

http://classics.mit.edu/index.html

BRITISH LIBRARY On-Line Books.

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http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

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http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/

http://www.literature.org/

AMERICAN LITERARY CLASSICS

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The Celebration of Women Writers.

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/writers.html#B_Section

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/subjects/subjects-women.html

Answer 4

I even have 2 that i could advise: Frankenstein and Jane Eyre. I undergo in recommendations examining the two considered one of those at my extreme college, the place we had to study many, many books for literature. My college had an extreme lit application. besides, I enjoyed Jane Eyre through fact i'm a sucker for romance memories, and that i think of it grants the Victorian era very properly. Jane in lots of circumstances has to supress her very own opinion through fact, as a governess and a woman, it replaced into not ideal to the Victorian society. Frankenstein replaced right into a competent tale besides. the girls human beings in Frankenstein are precisely how they could desire to be interior the Victorian Age--passive and vulnerable--besides the shown fact that Mary Shelley replaced right into a feminist.

Answer 5

Robert Browning (1812–89) and Alfred Tennyson (1809–92) were Victorian England's most famous poets, though more recent taste has tended to prefer the poetry of Thomas Hardy, who, though he wrote poetry throughout his life, did not publish a collection until 1898, as well as that of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89), whose poetry was published posthumously in 1918. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) is also considered an important literary figure of the period, especially his poems and critical writings. Early poetry of W. B. Yeats was also published in Victoria's reign.

With regard to the theatre it was not until the last decades of the nineteenth century that any significant works were produced. This began with Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas, from the 1870s, various plays of George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) in the 1890s, and Oscar Wilde's (1854–1900) The Importance of Being Earnest in 1895.

Answer 6

'The Professor' by Charlotte Bronte (501 KB), or 'Agnes Grey' by Anne Bronte (374 KB). Both are excessively short and by well respected authors. You can get them at any site.

Answer 7

"Carmilla" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: -- a vampire story; or "Green Tea" by the same author -- a creepy ghost story!