1861

3 books

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Framley Parsonage Anthony Trollope
You’ll settle happily into Mark Robarts’s uneasy friendship with the slippery Nathaniel Sowerby, where one small social favor starts troubling an otherwise respectable life. Trollope is gentle, funny, and wonderfully sharp about patronage, marriage, and the difference between seeming good and choosing well.
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
Pip is hard to like sometimes, ashamed of the blacksmith who loves him, and that's exactly why it works, because you recognize yourself in his snobbery. Give it a few chapters; once Miss Havisham appears in her rotting wedding dress, you're not putting it down early.
Silas Marner George Eliot
A lonely weaver counts his gold every night until it's stolen, and what wanders in to replace it changes him completely. Quiet and slow in the best way, and short enough that the sweetness never wears thin.

3 books

sort genre era

Framley Parsonage Anthony Trollope
You’ll settle happily into Mark Robarts’s uneasy friendship with the slippery Nathaniel Sowerby, where one small social favor starts troubling an otherwise respectable life. Trollope is gentle, funny, and wonderfully sharp about patronage, marriage, and the difference between seeming good and choosing well.
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
Pip is hard to like sometimes, ashamed of the blacksmith who loves him, and that's exactly why it works, because you recognize yourself in his snobbery. Give it a few chapters; once Miss Havisham appears in her rotting wedding dress, you're not putting it down early.
Silas Marner George Eliot
A lonely weaver counts his gold every night until it's stolen, and what wanders in to replace it changes him completely. Quiet and slow in the best way, and short enough that the sweetness never wears thin.