Best 19th Century Novels - April 2024

The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Winner of the American Library in Paris Book Award, 2017Les Misérables is among the most popular and enduring novels ever written. Like Inspector Javert’s dogged pursuit of Jean Valjean, its appeal has never waned, but only grown broader in its one-hundred-and-fifty-year life. Whether we encounter Victor Hugo’s story on the page, onstage, or on-screen, Les Misérables continues to captivate while also, perhaps unexpectedly, speaking to contemporary concerns. In The Novel of the Century, the acclaimed scholar and translator David Bellos tells us... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0374223238
• ASIN: 0374223238
• ISBN: 0374223238
• Brand: FARRAR STRAUS GIROUX
• Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Mi... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07MGS81WS
• ASIN: B07MGS81WS
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader (Portable Library)

The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader magnificently represents the great voices of this era. It includes such masterworks of world literature as Pushkin's poem "The Bronze Horseman"; Gogol's "The Overcoat"; Turgenev's novel First Love; Chekhov's Uncle Vanya; Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych; and "The Grand Inquisitor" episode from Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov; plus poetry, plays, short stories, novel excerpts, and essays by such writers as Griboyedov, Pavlova, Herzen, Goncharov, Saltykov-Shchedrin, and Maksim Gorky. Distinguished scholar George Gibian provides an introduction... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0140151036
• ASIN: 0140151036
• ISBN: 9780140151039
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

The Underground Railroad: A Novel

#1 New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the National Book Award • Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction • Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize One of the Best books of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, HuffPost, Esquire, Minneapolis Star Tribune   Look for Whitehead’s acclaimed new novel, The Nickel Boys, available now!Cora is a young slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pa... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0345804325
• ASIN: 0345804325
• ISBN: 0345804325
• Manufacturer: Anchor

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series ®)

Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary genre. Here are the stories that have endured the test of time: masterworks by such writers as Ernest He... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0395843677
• UPC: 046442843676
• ASIN: 0395843677
• ISBN: 0395843677
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

Moloka'i: A Novel

• ASIN: B002H8ORMU
• ASIN: B002H8ORMU
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

The Only Woman in the Room: A Novel

The New York Times and USA Today Bestseller! She possessed a stunning beauty. She also possessed a stunning mind. Could the world handle both?Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side, understanding more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee in disguise from their castle, and the whirlwind escape landed her in Hollywood. She became Hedy Lamarr, screen star.But she kept a secret more shocking than her heritage... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1492666866
• UPC: 760789271694
• ASIN: 1492666866
• ISBN: 1492666866
• Manufacturer: Sourcebooks Landmark

The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson: A Novel

For fans of Cold Mountain and The Invention of Wings comes “a magnificent, immersive, breathtaking work of historical fiction” (Jennifer Chiaverini, New York Times bestselling author) that follows the epic journey of a slave-turned-Comanche warrior who travels from the brutality of a New Orleans sugar cane plantation to the indomitable frontier of untamed Texas, searching not only for the woman he loves but also for his own identity.I have been to hangings before, but never my own. Sitting in a jail cell on the eve of his hanging, April 1, 1875, freedman Persimmon “Persy” Wilson wants... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501116363
• ASIN: 1501116363
• ISBN: 1501116363
• Brand: Washington Square Press
• Manufacturer: Washington Square Press

A Dangerous Fortune: A Novel

A breathtaking thriller featuring "political and amorous intrigues, cold-blooded murder, and financial crises" (San Francisco Chronicle), from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Column of FireIn 1866, tragedy strikes the exclusive Windfield School when a young student drowns in a mysterious accident. His death and its aftermath initiate a spiraling circle of treachery that will span three decades and entwine many lives.   From the exclusive men’s clubs and brothels that cater to every dark desire of London’s upper class to the dazzling ballrooms and mahogany-paneled suites of t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0440217490
• ASIN: 0440217490
• ISBN: 9780440217497
• Brand: Island Books
• Manufacturer: Dell

Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors

• ASIN: B00KQZY19A
• ASIN: B00KQZY19A
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

Poe: Stories and Poems: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Gareth Hinds

In a thrilling adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s best-known works, acclaimed artist-adapter Gareth Hinds translates Poe's dark genius into graphic-novel format.It is true that I am nervous. But why will you say that I am mad?In “The Cask of Amontillado,” a man exacts revenge on a disloyal friend at carnival, luring him into catacombs below the city. In “The Masque of the Red Death,” a prince shielding himself from plague hosts a doomed party inside his abbey stronghold. A prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, faced with a swinging blade and swarming rats, can’t see his tormentors in �... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0763695092
• ASIN: 0763695092
• ISBN: 0763695092
• Manufacturer: Candlewick

The 19th Wife: A Novel

It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. A rich account of her family’s polygamous history is revealed, including how both she and her mother became plural wives. Yet soon after Ann Eliza’s story begins, a second exquisite narrative unfolds–a tale of murder involving a polygamist family in present-day Utah. Jordan Scott, a young man who was thrown out of his fundamentalist sect years earlier, must re... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0812974158
• ASIN: 0812974158
• ISBN: 0812974158
• Brand: Ebershoff, David
• Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Unsheltered: A Novel

• ASIN: 0062684566
• ASIN: 0062684566
• ISBN: 0062684566
• Brand: Harper
• Manufacturer: Harper

The Darwin Affair: A Novel

“Intellectually stimulating and viscerally exciting, The Darwin Affair is breathtaking from start to stop.” —The Wall Street Journal Get ready for one of the most inventive and entertaining novels of 2019—an edge-of-your-seat Victorian-era thriller, where the controversial publication On the Origin of Species sets off a string of unspeakable crimes.London, June 1860: When an assassination attempt is made on Queen Victoria, and a petty thief is gruesomely murdered moments later—and only a block away—Chief Detective Inspector Charles Field quickly surmises that these crimes are ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1616206349
• ASIN: 1616206349
• ISBN: 1616206349
• Brand: Algonquin Books
• Manufacturer: Algonquin Books

The Way of All Flesh (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeThe Way of All Flesh is one of the time-bombs of literature," said V. S. Pritchett. "One thinks of it lying in Samuel Butler's desk for thirty years, waiting to blow up the Victorian family and with it the whole great pillared and balustraded edifice of the Victorian novel."   Written between 1873 and 1884 but not published until 1903, a year after Butler's death, his marvelously uninhibited satire savages Victorian bourgeois values as personified by multiple generations of the Pontifex family. A thinly veiled account of... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0375752498
• ASIN: 0375752498
• ISBN: 0375752498
• Brand: Butler, Samuel
• Manufacturer: Modern Library

The Best American Noir of the Century

A treasure trove of a hundred years’ worth of the finest noir writing selected by James

• UPC: 15699312

The Devil's Monk : A 19th Century British Mystery

July, 1829. When a female corpse dressed in male clothing is discovered lying in a haystack and a man in white robes is reported fleeing from the scene, rumours abound that the legendary 'Devil's Monk'

• UPC: 49619730
• Rating: 4.0

The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century - eBook

Explosive and provocative battles fought across the boundaries of time and space—and on the frontiers of the human mind.Science fiction’s finest have yielded this definitive collection featuring stories of warfare, victory, conquest, heroism, and overwhelming

• UPC: 967602528
• Rating: 3.0

The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century : Stories

Presents a collection of "what if" stories that offer an alternate version of actual historical events in an anthology with works by Kim Stanley Robinson, Greg Bear, Ward Moore, Gregory Benford, and Susan

• UPC: 1265661
• Rating: 4.0

Masterpieces : The Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century

Representing the finest science fiction tales of the past century, this imaginative anthology includes both classic and contemporary works by Anne McCaffrey, Octavia E. Butler, Arthur C. Clarke, Ursula K. Le Guin, Roger Zelazny, Robert

• UPC: 2413102
• Rating: 4.333

The Devil's Monk : A 19th Century British Mystery

July, 1829. When a female corpse dressed in male clothing is discovered lying in a haystack and a man in white robes is reported fleeing from the scene, rumours abound that the legendary 'Devil's Monk'

• UPC: 48452134
• Rating: 4.0

A History of the French Novel: From the Beginning to the Close of the 19th Century (Complete) - eBook

In beginning what, if it ever gets finished, must in all probability be the last of some already perhaps too numerous studies of literary history, I should like to point out that the plan of

• UPC: 407558602

Great American Novels: 19th Century Selection (Golden Deer Classics) - eBook

A "Great American Novel" is a novel which is of high literary merit and shows the culture of the United States at a specific time in its history. It is presumably written by an American

• UPC: 607031924

The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century - eBook

LEAP INTO THE FUTURE, AND SHOOT BACK TO THE PASTH. G. Wells’s seminal short story “The Time Machine,” published in 1895, provided the springboard for modern science fiction’s time travel explosion. Responding to their own

• UPC: 708674131
• Rating: 5.0

[19th Century Actor] Autobiographies - eBook

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology,

• UPC: 488188473

Reader's Digest World Best Reading: Silas Marner by George Eliot, Illustrated...

• UPC: 283668261025
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 9 USD

KING SOLOMON'S MINES World's Best Reading Victorian Era Lost Treasure Gold VG

• UPC: 173952929079
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 9 USD

THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES Hawthorne Reader's Digest WORLD'S BEST READING EUC

• UPC: 163989677496
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 7 USD