Best Novels Of 19th Century - April 2024

The Mannequin: A Victorian Romance

When she was a poor country girl in a hand-me-down dress, Rosamund saved the Duke of Swanhaven from the brink of despair…only to fall in love with him. Now a celebrated mannequin for an exclusive London dressmaker, her glamorous life is empty without the man to whom she gave her heart. Can a beastly duke and a beautiful mannequin ever find a fairy-tale ending?

• ASIN: B013F08MP6
• ASIN: B013F08MP6
• Manufacturer: Idunn Court Publishing

The Underground Railroad: A Novel

#1 New York Times BestsellerWinner of the Pulitzer PrizeWinner of the National Book AwardWinner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionLonglisted for the Man Booker PrizeOne 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 TribuneCora 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 pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on... [Read More]

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

Someone to Honor (The Westcott Series)

First appearances deceive in the newest charming and heartwarming Regency romance in the Westcott series from beloved New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh.Abigail Westcott's dreams for her future were lost when her father died and she discovered her parents were not legally married. But now, six years later, she enjoys the independence a life without expectation provides a wealthy single woman. Indeed, she's grown confident enough to scold the careless servant chopping wood outside without his shirt on in the proximity of ladies.But the man is not a servant. He is Gilbert Bennington, ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1984802372
• ASIN: 1984802372
• ISBN: 1984802372
• Manufacturer: Berkley

The Gilded Hour

The international bestselling author of Where the Light Enters presents a remarkable epic about two female doctors in nineteenth-century New York.   The year is 1883, and in New York City, Anna Savard and her cousin Sophie—both graduates of the Woman’s Medical School—treat the city’s most vulnerable, even if doing so puts everything they’ve strived for in jeopardy...   Anna’s work has placed her in the path of four children who have lost everything, just as she herself once had. Faced with their helplessness, Anna must make an unexpected choice between holding on to the pain of ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00SI027PK
• ASIN: B00SI027PK
• Manufacturer: Berkley

The Little House (9 Volumes Set)

This nine-book paperback box set of the classic series features the classic black-and-white artwork from Garth Williams.The nine books in the timeless Little House series tell the story of Laura’s real childhood as an American pioneer, and are cherished by readers of all generations. They offer a unique glimpse into life on the American frontier, and tell the heartwarming, unforgettable story of a loving family.Little House in the Big WoodsMeet the Ingalls family—Laura, Ma, Pa, Mary, and baby Carrie, who all live in a cozy log cabin in the big woods of Wisconsin in the 1870s. Though many ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0064400409
• UPC: 046594071972
• ASIN: 0064400409
• ISBN: 0064400409
• Brand: Harper Collins Publishers
• Manufacturer: Harper Trophy

These Truths: A History of the United States

• ASIN: 0393635244
• ASIN: 0393635244
• ISBN: 0393635244
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Erik Larson—author of #1 bestseller In the Garden of Beasts—intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death. Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative with all the wonder of newly discovered history and the thrills of the best fiction.

• ASIN: 0375725601
• UPC: 884510967318
• ASIN: 0375725601
• ISBN: 0375725601
• Brand: Erik Larson
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Redeeming Love: A Novel

• ASIN: B000WJSD2Q
• ASIN: B000WJSD2Q
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Multnomah

Kindred

The visionary author’s masterpiece pulls us—along with her Black female hero—through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more ard... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0807083690
• UPC: 046442083690
• ASIN: 0807083690
• ISBN: 0807083690
• Brand: Butler, Octavia E.
• Manufacturer: Beacon 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

At Last the Rogue Returns (Avenging Lords Book 1)

A lady discovers that the monster of her nightmares just might be the hero of her dreams.The lady labels him a devil.Miss Lydia Lovell is on a quest for justice. For years, Lord Greystone’s tenants have suffered at his hands. While he abandoned his estate to rusticate abroad, poverty and illness crippled those who depend upon him. Now Greystone has come home, and Lydia is determined to make him pay.Greystone returns for revenge.Having spent five years abroad making his fortune, Miles Oakley, Viscount Greystone, returns to England with one goal in mind – to ruin those responsible for his mo... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07BV9NRMW
• ASIN: B07BV9NRMW

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Referring to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, H. L. Mencken noted that his discovery of this classic American novel was "the most stupendous event of my whole life"; Ernest Hemingway declared that "all modern American literature stems from this one book," while T. S. Eliot called Huck "one of the permanent symbolic figures of fiction, not unworthy to take a place with Ulysses, Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Hamlet."The novel's preeminence derives from its wonderfully imaginative re-creation of boyhood adventures along the Mississippi River, its inspired characterization, the author's remarkable ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0486280616
• UPC: 800759280612
• ASIN: 0486280616
• ISBN: 9780486280615
• Brand: Dover Publications
• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

Cashelmara

The New York Times–bestselling saga: In nineteenth-century Ireland, a titled English family keeps an estate in an era of famine and violent conflict.  When Edward de Salis travels to America after the death of his first wife, he is astonished to find himself falling in love with Marguerite, a young woman many years his junior. Full of hope for the future, he returns to his Irish estate, Cashelmara, but in nineteenth-century Ireland—a country racked by poverty and famine—his family eventually becomes trapped in a sinister spiral of violence that Edward could never have foreseen. Cashelma... [Read More]

• ASIN: B009DA5BZC
• ASIN: B009DA5BZC
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

Unsheltered: A Novel

• ASIN: 0062684566
• ASIN: 0062684566
• ISBN: 9780062684561
• Manufacturer: Harper

Grant

The #1 New York Times bestseller.New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant.   Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don't come close to capturing him, as Chernow shows in his masterful biography, the first to provide a complete understanding of the general ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 159420487X
• ASIN: 159420487X
• ISBN: 9781594204876
• Manufacturer: Penguin Press

Ships of War : The Development of Warships by the Navies of the World During the Later 19th Century

The dawn of the modern warship This interesting, illustrated work concerns the considerable variety of ships of war that were designed and launched during the latter part of the nineteenth century. The author takes as

• UPC: 53371361

Signor Marconi's Magic Box : The Most Remarkable Invention Of The 19th Century & The Amateur Inventor Whose Genius Sparked A Revolution

The extraordinary and often bizarre story of an amateur inventor and how his "magic box" changed the

• UPC: 31134012
• Rating: 4.0

A Clearing In The Distance : Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century

Chronicles the life and career of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, and the effect his ideas had on American

• UPC: 778086
• Rating: 5.0

Old Milwaukee : The Early History of Brew Town in the 19th Century

Old Milwaukee: The Early History of Brew Town in the 19th

• UPC: 562313191
• Rating: 4.0

Madhouse : The Hidden History of Insane Asylums in 19th Century New York

The history of 15 Insane asylums established in 19th century New York as told through the experiences of the directors, staff, and patients who inhabited

• UPC: 168616719

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

I, Pierre Riviére, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother : A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century

9780803268579

• UPC: 24487248
• Rating: 3.0

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

Sea Snow: the gentle haunting of a 19th century lighthouse - eBook

On her wedding night, Rose Martin, the young bride of a 19th century lighthouse keeper is awakened by a phantom fragrance, compelling her to leave her sleeping husbands side and climb the 102 steps of

• UPC: 928202369

The Dawn of the 19th Century in England - eBook

The Dawn of the 19th Century in England is an overview of social history in England during the 19th century. A table of contents is

• UPC: 407596604