Viktoriánské

Viktoriánská Anglie ožívá prostřednictvím velkolepých příběhů o lásce, třídním boji a společenských otřesech na pozadí průmyslové revoluce a přísných konvencí. Tato mistrovská díla zkoumají složité životy nezapomenutelných postav, které se pohybují mezi láskou, ctižádostí a morálkou v rychle se měnícím světě parních strojů, venkovských sídel a přísných společenských pravidel.

Viktoriánské Shrnutí knih

Victorian Psycho

od Virginia Feito

A governess arrives at a Gothic manor with her father's razor and a family to destroy.

3.53

55 000+

🕰️ Historical Horror 👻 Gothic Governess 🔪 Female Serial Killer ⚔️ Class Revenge 🎭 Satirical Horror

Imerzivní

Victorian Psycho

A governess arrives at a Gothic manor with her father's razor and a family to destroy.

od Virginia Feito 2025 208 stran

3.53

55 000+ hodnocení

🕰️ Historical Horror 👻 Gothic Governess 🔪 Female Serial Killer ⚔️ Class Revenge 🎭 Satirical Horror

Noční cirkus

od Erin Morgenstern • 2011

Inside a magical circus, two illusionists duel in secret, and falling in love breaks every rule.

4.00

1 000 000+

🎪 Circus Fantasy ⚔️ Magical Duel 💫 Star-Crossed Lovers 🏠 Found Family 🌫️ Atmospheric Fantasy

Imerzivní

Noční cirkus

Inside a magical circus, two illusionists duel in secret, and falling in love breaks every rule.

od Erin Morgenstern 2011 506 stran

4.00

1 000 000+ hodnocení

🎪 Circus Fantasy ⚔️ Magical Duel 💫 Star-Crossed Lovers 🏠 Found Family 🌫️ Atmospheric Fantasy

Pes baskervillský

od Arthur Conan Doyle • 1902

A corpse on the moor, giant paw prints, a family curse. Holmes protects the last heir.

4.14

300 000+

🕯️ Gothic Mystery 🔍 Debunked Haunting 🩸 Family Curse 👤 Hidden Heir 🏚️ Gothic Estate

Pes baskervillský

A corpse on the moor, giant paw prints, a family curse. Holmes protects the last heir.

od Arthur Conan Doyle 1902 256 stran

4.14

300 000+ hodnocení

🕯️ Gothic Mystery 🔍 Debunked Haunting 🩸 Family Curse 👤 Hidden Heir 🏚️ Gothic Estate

The Devil in the White City

od Erik Larson • 2003

An architect builds a wonder. A doctor builds a hotel next door for murder. Chicago, 1893.

4.00

700 000+

📯 Gilded Age 🎡 World's Fairs 🔪 Serial Killers 🏙️ Urban History 🏛️ Architectural History

The Devil in the White City

An architect builds a wonder. A doctor builds a hotel next door for murder. Chicago, 1893.

od Erik Larson 2003 464 stran

4.00

700 000+ hodnocení

📯 Gilded Age 🎡 World's Fairs 🔪 Serial Killers 🏙️ Urban History 🏛️ Architectural History

Obraz Doriana Graye

od Oscar Wilde • 1890

A vain wish grants him eternal youth; a hidden portrait rots with every sin.

4.14

1 000 000+

😈 Faustian Bargain 🏙️ Victorian London 🎭 Double Life 🐍 Corrupting Influence 🥀 Decadent Horror

Imerzivní

Obraz Doriana Graye

A vain wish grants him eternal youth; a hidden portrait rots with every sin.

od Oscar Wilde 1890 272 stran

4.14

1 000 000+ hodnocení

😈 Faustian Bargain 🏙️ Victorian London 🎭 Double Life 🐍 Corrupting Influence 🥀 Decadent Horror

The Ice Monster

od David Walliams • 2018

To return a resurrected mammoth home, a Victorian orphan steals a warship and outruns a hunter.

4.20

8 000+

🧒 Plucky Orphan Heroine 🫂 Found Family 🐘 Animal Rescue Quest 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Victorian London 🎈 Madcap Schemes

The Ice Monster

To return a resurrected mammoth home, a Victorian orphan steals a warship and outruns a hunter.

od David Walliams 2018 496 stran

4.20

8 000+ hodnocení

🧒 Plucky Orphan Heroine 🫂 Found Family 🐘 Animal Rescue Quest 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Victorian London 🎈 Madcap Schemes

Dracula

od Bram Stoker • 1897

A solicitor visits a Transylvanian count and finds the doors locked and his host's reflection gone.

4.02

1 000 000+

🖤 Epistolary Horror 🗡️ Vampire Hunter 🏰 Gothic Castle 🧛 Victorian Vampire 🕯️ Slow Burn Horror

Imerzivní

Dracula

A solicitor visits a Transylvanian count and finds the doors locked and his host's reflection gone.

od Bram Stoker 1897 488 stran

4.02

1 000 000+ hodnocení

🖤 Epistolary Horror 🗡️ Vampire Hunter 🏰 Gothic Castle 🧛 Victorian Vampire 🕯️ Slow Burn Horror

Sever a jih

od Elizabeth Gaskellová • 1855

Margaret Hale moves north, collides with mill master John Thornton, and neither pride will bend.

4.15

100 000+

🏭 Industrial Novel 🎭 Victorian Social Drama 💕 Class Divide Romance 🔥 Slow Burn Romance ⚡ Opposites Attract

Sever a jih

Margaret Hale moves north, collides with mill master John Thornton, and neither pride will bend.

od Elizabeth Gaskellová 1855 521 stran

4.15

100 000+ hodnocení

🏭 Industrial Novel 🎭 Victorian Social Drama 💕 Class Divide Romance 🔥 Slow Burn Romance ⚡ Opposites Attract

Dobrodružství Sherlocka Holmese

od Arthur Conan Doyle • 1892

Before forensics, one man solved impossible crimes through observation alone. Dr. Watson took notes.

4.30

300 000+

🔍 Amateur Sleuth 🎩 Eccentric Detective 🏙️ Victorian London 📚 Short Story Collection 🌃 Gaslit Streets

Dobrodružství Sherlocka Holmese

Before forensics, one man solved impossible crimes through observation alone. Dr. Watson took notes.

od Arthur Conan Doyle 1892 389 stran

4.30

300 000+ hodnocení

🔍 Amateur Sleuth 🎩 Eccentric Detective 🏙️ Victorian London 📚 Short Story Collection 🌃 Gaslit Streets

Alenka v říši divů / Alenka za zrcadlem

od Lewis Carroll • 1871

Alice falls into a wonderland of vanishing cats, living cards, and a queen who collects heads.

4.06

600 000+

🚪 Portal Fantasy 🃏 Literary Nonsense 🛌 Dream World Adventure 🧐 Philosophical Absurdity 👧 Victorian Childhood

Alenka v říši divů / Alenka za zrcadlem Shrnutí

Imerzivní

Alenka v říši divů / Alenka za zrcadlem

Alice falls into a wonderland of vanishing cats, living cards, and a queen who collects heads.

od Lewis Carroll 1871 239 stran

4.06

600 000+ hodnocení

🚪 Portal Fantasy 🃏 Literary Nonsense 🛌 Dream World Adventure 🧐 Philosophical Absurdity 👧 Victorian Childhood

Paní z Wildfell Hall

od Anne Brontëová • 1848

A farmer obsessed with a reclusive tenant uncovers her diary and the brutal marriage she fled.

4.04

100 000+

🏚️ Gothic Domestic 📜 Epistolary Novel 🖤 Mysterious Widow 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🍷 Alcoholic Spouse

Paní z Wildfell Hall

A farmer obsessed with a reclusive tenant uncovers her diary and the brutal marriage she fled.

od Anne Brontëová 1848 576 stran

4.04

100 000+ hodnocení

🏚️ Gothic Domestic 📜 Epistolary Novel 🖤 Mysterious Widow 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🍷 Alcoholic Spouse

Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hide

od Robert Louis Stevenson • 1886

A lawyer uncovers a horrifying secret linking his friend Dr. Jekyll to a brutish criminal.

3.83

600 000+

🧠 Split Personality 🔬 Victorian Science 👥 Evil Double 🧪 Scientific Hubris 🎩 Repressed Gentleman

Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hide

A lawyer uncovers a horrifying secret linking his friend Dr. Jekyll to a brutish criminal.

od Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 36 stran

3.83

600 000+ hodnocení

🧠 Split Personality 🔬 Victorian Science 👥 Evil Double 🧪 Scientific Hubris 🎩 Repressed Gentleman

The Yellow Wall-Paper

od Charlotte Perkins Gilman • 1892

Forbidden to write or think, a mother stares at the yellow wallpaper until a woman stares back.

4.07

11 000+

🧠 Psychological Horror ✊ Feminist Classic 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🕳️ Descent Into Madness 💊 Medical Gaslighting

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Forbidden to write or think, a mother stares at the yellow wallpaper until a woman stares back.

od Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1892 54 stran

4.07

11 000+ hodnocení

🧠 Psychological Horror ✊ Feminist Classic 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🕳️ Descent Into Madness 💊 Medical Gaslighting

Znamení čtyř

od Arthur Conan Doyle • 1890

A locked room corpse. A missing fortune. A one-legged fugitive. Holmes chases them down the Thames.

3.88

100 000+

🔐 Locked Room Mystery 🔎 Deductive Reasoning 💎 Treasure Hunt 🕵️ Detective And Doctor 🌫️ Victorian London

Znamení čtyř

A locked room corpse. A missing fortune. A one-legged fugitive. Holmes chases them down the Thames.

od Arthur Conan Doyle 1890 129 stran

3.88

100 000+ hodnocení

🔐 Locked Room Mystery 🔎 Deductive Reasoning 💎 Treasure Hunt 🕵️ Detective And Doctor 🌫️ Victorian London

Agnes Grey

od Anne Brontë • 1847

A clergyman's daughter becomes a governess and discovers the rich see her as furniture.

3.71

83 000+

🏠 Governess Narrative 🤫 Reserved Heroine 💌 Quiet Courtship ⚖️ Integrity Rewarded ⛪ Rural Parish Life

Agnes Grey

A clergyman's daughter becomes a governess and discovers the rich see her as furniture.

od Anne Brontë 1847 226 stran

3.71

83 000+ hodnocení

🏠 Governess Narrative 🤫 Reserved Heroine 💌 Quiet Courtship ⚖️ Integrity Rewarded ⛪ Rural Parish Life

David Copperfield

od Charles Dickens • 1850

After his mother marries a tyrant, a boy flees across England with only his aunt's name.

4.05

200 000+

🎓 Victorian Bildungsroman ✍️ Autobiographical Fiction 👦 Orphan Protagonist 🤝 Found Family 💷 Rags To Riches

David Copperfield

After his mother marries a tyrant, a boy flees across England with only his aunt's name.

od Charles Dickens 1850 882 stran

4.05

200 000+ hodnocení

🎓 Victorian Bildungsroman ✍️ Autobiographical Fiction 👦 Orphan Protagonist 🤝 Found Family 💷 Rags To Riches

Alenka v říši divů

od Lewis Carroll • 1865

Following a pocket-watch rabbit, a Victorian girl falls into a land where madness wears a crown.

3.99

400 000+

🐰 Portal Fantasy 🃏 Literary Nonsense 🐇 Talking Animals 🎭 Absurdist Humor 💤 Dream Narrative

Alenka v říši divů

Following a pocket-watch rabbit, a Victorian girl falls into a land where madness wears a crown.

od Lewis Carroll 1865 320 stran

3.99

400 000+ hodnocení

🐰 Portal Fantasy 🃏 Literary Nonsense 🐇 Talking Animals 🎭 Absurdist Humor 💤 Dream Narrative

An Old-Fashioned Girl

od Louisa May Alcott • 1870

A country girl's quiet integrity unsettles a wealthy city family and their charming, careless son.

4.09

22 000+

🏠 Domestic Fiction 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💕 Friends To Lovers 🌾 Country Girl In The City 🏛️ Victorian New England

An Old-Fashioned Girl

A country girl's quiet integrity unsettles a wealthy city family and their charming, careless son.

od Louisa May Alcott 1870 288 stran

4.09

22 000+ hodnocení

🏠 Domestic Fiction 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💕 Friends To Lovers 🌾 Country Girl In The City 🏛️ Victorian New England

Neviditelný muž

od H.G. Wells • 1897

Mad and invisible, a scientist terrorizes a village that must hunt what it cannot see.

3.63

200 000+

🧪 Mad Scientist 👻 Gothic Dread 👁️ Unseen Predator 🔮 Invisibility ⚗️ Experiment Gone Wrong

Neviditelný muž

Mad and invisible, a scientist terrorizes a village that must hunt what it cannot see.

od H.G. Wells 1897 192 stran

3.63

200 000+ hodnocení

🧪 Mad Scientist 👻 Gothic Dread 👁️ Unseen Predator 🔮 Invisibility ⚗️ Experiment Gone Wrong

Middlemarch

od George Eliot • 1872

In a provincial town, an idealistic heiress weds a dry scholar, mistaking his silence for wisdom.

4.04

100 000+

📜 Victorian Realism 🏘️ Provincial Life 💔 Disillusioned Marriage 💍 Age Gap Marriage 🏥 Ambitious Reformer

Middlemarch

In a provincial town, an idealistic heiress weds a dry scholar, mistaking his silence for wisdom.

od George Eliot 1872 912 stran

4.04

100 000+ hodnocení

📜 Victorian Realism 🏘️ Provincial Life 💔 Disillusioned Marriage 💍 Age Gap Marriage 🏥 Ambitious Reformer

Cesta kolem světa za 80 dní

od Jules Verne • 1872

A London gentleman wagers everything on circling the globe in eighty days, tailed by a detective.

3.95

200 000+

🎩 Victorian Adventure ⏱️ Race Against Clock 🤝 Unlikely Companions 😐 Stoic Protagonist 🕵️ Mistaken Identity Chase

Cesta kolem světa za 80 dní

A London gentleman wagers everything on circling the globe in eighty days, tailed by a detective.

od Jules Verne 1872 252 stran

3.95

200 000+ hodnocení

🎩 Victorian Adventure ⏱️ Race Against Clock 🤝 Unlikely Companions 😐 Stoic Protagonist 🕵️ Mistaken Identity Chase

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

od Arthur Conan Doyle • 1914

A genius who reads men from a bootprint solves London's darkest crimes, his doctor chronicling.

4.48

82 000+

🔍 Classic Whodunit 🧠 Deductive Reasoning 🏙️ Victorian London 🤝 Crime-Solving Duo ⚔️ Battle Of Wits

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

A genius who reads men from a bootprint solves London's darkest crimes, his doctor chronicling.

od Arthur Conan Doyle 1914 709 stran

4.48

82 000+ hodnocení

🔍 Classic Whodunit 🧠 Deductive Reasoning 🏙️ Victorian London 🤝 Crime-Solving Duo ⚔️ Battle Of Wits

Stalking Jack the Ripper

od Kerri Maniscalco • 2016

In Victorian London, a forensic student hunts the Ripper, and the evidence points to her family.

3.92

100 000+

🔎 Forensic Investigation 🕰️ Victorian Gothic Mystery 🤝 Unlikely Duo 🔐 Family Secrets 🧪 Macabre Experiments

Stalking Jack the Ripper

In Victorian London, a forensic student hunts the Ripper, and the evidence points to her family.

od Kerri Maniscalco 2016 337 stran

3.92

100 000+ hodnocení

🔎 Forensic Investigation 🕰️ Victorian Gothic Mystery 🤝 Unlikely Duo 🔐 Family Secrets 🧪 Macabre Experiments

Villette

od Charlotte Brontë • 1853

A lonely English teacher in Belgium finds love and a ghost haunting her boarding school.

3.78

81 000+

🖤 Psychological Gothic 🏫 Boarding School Setting 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 😶 Repressed Protagonist 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

Villette

A lonely English teacher in Belgium finds love and a ghost haunting her boarding school.

od Charlotte Brontë 1853 573 stran

3.78

81 000+ hodnocení

🖤 Psychological Gothic 🏫 Boarding School Setting 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 😶 Repressed Protagonist 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

Podivný případ doktora Jekylla a pana Hyda a další příběhy hrůzy

od Robert Louis Stevenson • 1886

A respectable doctor's strange will leaves everything to a violent man his lawyer has never met.

3.91

100 000+

🧠 Split Personality 🧪 Mad Scientist 🏙️ Victorian London ✉️ Epistolary Horror 😰 Creeping Dread

Podivný případ doktora Jekylla a pana Hyda a další příběhy hrůzy

A respectable doctor's strange will leaves everything to a violent man his lawyer has never met.

od Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 224 stran

3.91

100 000+ hodnocení

🧠 Split Personality 🧪 Mad Scientist 🏙️ Victorian London ✉️ Epistolary Horror 😰 Creeping Dread

Oliver Twist

od Charles Dickens • 1838

A workhouse orphan falls among London's child thieves, not knowing his very name hides a fortune.

3.88

400 000+

🏙️ Victorian London ⚖️ Social Critique 🧒 Orphan Narrative 🔪 Criminal Underworld 🔍 Hidden Parentage

Oliver Twist

A workhouse orphan falls among London's child thieves, not knowing his very name hides a fortune.

od Charles Dickens 1838 608 stran

3.88

400 000+ hodnocení

🏙️ Victorian London ⚖️ Social Critique 🧒 Orphan Narrative 🔪 Criminal Underworld 🔍 Hidden Parentage

Studie v šarlatové

od Arthur Conan Doyle • 1887

Dr. Watson meets Sherlock Holmes. A corpse, a bloody word, a trail to the Utah desert.

4.13

400 000+

🏙️ Victorian London 🕵️ Eccentric Detective 📝 Sidekick Narrator ⚔️ Revenge Quest 🏜️ American Frontier

Studie v šarlatové

Dr. Watson meets Sherlock Holmes. A corpse, a bloody word, a trail to the Utah desert.

od Arthur Conan Doyle 1887 123 stran

4.13

400 000+ hodnocení

🏙️ Victorian London 🕵️ Eccentric Detective 📝 Sidekick Narrator ⚔️ Revenge Quest 🏜️ American Frontier

The Secret Book Society

od Madeline Martin

A secret book society shields repressed Victorian women until an asylum swallows one of them.

4.07

31 000+

🏙️ Victorian London 📚 Secret Book Club 🤝 Female Solidarity 📖 Reading As Resistance 💔 Abusive Marriage

Imerzivní

The Secret Book Society

A secret book society shields repressed Victorian women until an asylum swallows one of them.

od Madeline Martin 2025 336 stran

4.07

31 000+ hodnocení

🏙️ Victorian London 📚 Secret Book Club 🤝 Female Solidarity 📖 Reading As Resistance 💔 Abusive Marriage

Kompletní Sherlock Holmes

od Arthur Conan Doyle • 1887

Sharing Baker Street, a reclusive genius and a war-weary doctor solve the crimes that baffle London.

4.51

200 000+

🕵️ Consulting Detective 🎩 Victorian London 🔍 Classic Whodunit 🧠 Eccentric Detective 📝 Sidekick Narrator

Kompletní Sherlock Holmes

Sharing Baker Street, a reclusive genius and a war-weary doctor solve the crimes that baffle London.

od Arthur Conan Doyle 1887 1796 stran

4.51

200 000+ hodnocení

🕵️ Consulting Detective 🎩 Victorian London 🔍 Classic Whodunit 🧠 Eccentric Detective 📝 Sidekick Narrator

The Complete Novels of Sherlock Holmes

od Arthur Conan Doyle • 2015

An army doctor joins a coldly brilliant detective to solve Victorian London's most baffling crimes.

4.34

3 000+

🕵️ Private Detective 🧠 Eccentric Genius 🤝 Detective Duo 📝 Sidekick Narrator 🔍 Logical Deduction

The Complete Novels of Sherlock Holmes

An army doctor joins a coldly brilliant detective to solve Victorian London's most baffling crimes.

od Arthur Conan Doyle 2015 536 stran

4.34

3 000+ hodnocení

🕵️ Private Detective 🧠 Eccentric Genius 🤝 Detective Duo 📝 Sidekick Narrator 🔍 Logical Deduction

Estudio en escarlata / La señal de los cuatro

od Arthur Conan Doyle • 2005

Pearls, a locked room murder, and lost treasure pull Holmes and Watson into a foggy hunt.

4.13

10 000+

🕵️ Victorian Mystery 🚪 Locked Room Mystery 💰 Treasure Hunt 🧠 Deductive Reasoning 🌏 Colonial Legacy

Estudio en escarlata / La señal de los cuatro

Pearls, a locked room murder, and lost treasure pull Holmes and Watson into a foggy hunt.

od Arthur Conan Doyle 2005 248 stran

4.13

10 000+ hodnocení

🕵️ Victorian Mystery 🚪 Locked Room Mystery 💰 Treasure Hunt 🧠 Deductive Reasoning 🌏 Colonial Legacy

The Return of the Native

od Thomas Hardy • 1878

Restless on the heath, she weds a man from Paris, never knowing he means to stay.

3.88

40 000+

🏞️ Brooding Landscape 💔 Tragic Misunderstanding 🌪️ Restless Heroine 🌾 Rural Isolation 🔺 Fatal Love Triangle

The Return of the Native

Restless on the heath, she weds a man from Paris, never knowing he means to stay.

od Thomas Hardy 1878 426 stran

3.88

40 000+ hodnocení

🏞️ Brooding Landscape 💔 Tragic Misunderstanding 🌪️ Restless Heroine 🌾 Rural Isolation 🔺 Fatal Love Triangle

Bleak House

od Charles Dickens • 1853

A lawsuit devours fortunes for generations as an orphaned girl uncovers the secret of her birth.

4.02

100 000+

🏛️ Legal Satire 🔍 Secret Parentage 🗣️ Dual Narration 💼 Doomed Inheritance 🥀 Fallen Woman

Bleak House

A lawsuit devours fortunes for generations as an orphaned girl uncovers the secret of her birth.

od Charles Dickens 1853 1017 stran

4.02

100 000+ hodnocení

🏛️ Legal Satire 🔍 Secret Parentage 🗣️ Dual Narration 💼 Doomed Inheritance 🥀 Fallen Woman

The Sweet Far Thing

od Libba Bray • 2007

Bound to another world's magic, a Victorian schoolgirl faces a frozen darkness that wants it back.

3.97

73 000+

🕯️ Dark Academia 🔮 Secret Societies 💔 Forbidden Romance 👑 Power Corrupts 🏚️ Gothic Atmosphere

The Sweet Far Thing

Bound to another world's magic, a Victorian schoolgirl faces a frozen darkness that wants it back.

od Libba Bray 2007 819 stran

3.97

73 000+ hodnocení

🕯️ Dark Academia 🔮 Secret Societies 💔 Forbidden Romance 👑 Power Corrupts 🏚️ Gothic Atmosphere

Daleko od hlučícího davu

od Thomas Hardy • 1874

An heiress running her own farm sends a careless valentine and ignites a deadly obsession.

3.97

100 000+

🌾 Pastoral Fiction 💪 Independent Heroine 🖤 Unrequited Obsession 🎭 Charming Scoundrel 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

Daleko od hlučícího davu

An heiress running her own farm sends a careless valentine and ignites a deadly obsession.

od Thomas Hardy 1874 433 stran

3.97

100 000+ hodnocení

🌾 Pastoral Fiction 💪 Independent Heroine 🖤 Unrequited Obsession 🎭 Charming Scoundrel 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

Nadějné vyhlídky

od Charles Dickens • 1861

An orphan becomes a gentleman overnight, funded by a shadowy patron with a ruinous secret.

3.80

800 000+

🎓 Bildungsroman 🏛️ Victorian England 🎭 Secret Benefactor 📈 Social Climbing 🏚️ Gothic Mansion

Nadějné vyhlídky

An orphan becomes a gentleman overnight, funded by a shadowy patron with a ruinous secret.

od Charles Dickens 1861 544 stran

3.80

800 000+ hodnocení

🎓 Bildungsroman 🏛️ Victorian England 🎭 Secret Benefactor 📈 Social Climbing 🏚️ Gothic Mansion

Žena v bílém

od Wilkie Collins • 1859

A moonlit heath, a frantic stranger, a drawing master: snared in a plot to steal an heiress's life.

4.02

100 000+

🎭 Sensation Fiction 🏚️ Victorian Gothic 👥 DoppelgäNger 🏥 Unjust Asylum 🔍 Amateur Detective

Žena v bílém

A moonlit heath, a frantic stranger, a drawing master: snared in a plot to steal an heiress's life.

od Wilkie Collins 1859 672 stran

4.02

100 000+ hodnocení

🎭 Sensation Fiction 🏚️ Victorian Gothic 👥 DoppelgäNger 🏥 Unjust Asylum 🔍 Amateur Detective

Jak je důležité míti Filipa

od Oscar Wilde • 1895

Two Victorian gentlemen share a fake identity, until both their sweethearts demand to marry Ernest.

4.17

400 000+

🎭 Comedy Of Manners 🤹 Mistaken Identity 🤫 Double Lives 🇬🇧 Victorian England 💬 Witty Dialogue

Jak je důležité míti Filipa

Two Victorian gentlemen share a fake identity, until both their sweethearts demand to marry Ernest.

od Oscar Wilde 1895 89 stran

4.17

400 000+ hodnocení

🎭 Comedy Of Manners 🤹 Mistaken Identity 🤫 Double Lives 🇬🇧 Victorian England 💬 Witty Dialogue

Charles Dickens in Love

od Robert Garnett • 2012

Dickens' heroines didn't come from his imagination but from a broken heart and a hidden affair.

3.93

📚 Literary Biography 🕰️ Victorian Literature 💔 Unrequited Love 🎭 Secret Lives 🕊️ Loss And Creativity

Charles Dickens in Love

Dickens' heroines didn't come from his imagination but from a broken heart and a hidden affair.

od Robert Garnett 2012 368 stran

3.93

70 hodnocení

📚 Literary Biography 🕰️ Victorian Literature 💔 Unrequited Love 🎭 Secret Lives 🕊️ Loss And Creativity

A Tale of Two Cities / Great Expectations

od Charles Dickens • 1859

A lawyer trades his life at the guillotine; an orphan's fortune conceals a shadowy past.

4.02

17 000+

🇫🇷 French Revolution 🕊️ Self-Sacrifice 💔 Unrequited Love 💰 Class Ambition 🌱 Coming Of Age

A Tale of Two Cities / Great Expectations

A lawyer trades his life at the guillotine; an orphan's fortune conceals a shadowy past.

od Charles Dickens 1859 834 stran

4.02

17 000+ hodnocení

🇫🇷 French Revolution 🕊️ Self-Sacrifice 💔 Unrequited Love 💰 Class Ambition 🌱 Coming Of Age

Utažení šroubu

od Henry James • 1898

A governess at a remote estate finds the children charmed by ghosts only she can see.

3.38

100 000+

🧠 Psychological Horror 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 👧 Creepy Children 🏚️ Haunted Estate 🕯️ Victorian Gothic

Utažení šroubu

A governess at a remote estate finds the children charmed by ghosts only she can see.

od Henry James 1898 121 stran

3.38

100 000+ hodnocení

🧠 Psychological Horror 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 👧 Creepy Children 🏚️ Haunted Estate 🕯️ Victorian Gothic

We Two

od Gillian Gill • 2009

Victoria wore the crown. Albert wielded the power. Their tense partnership rebuilt the monarchy.

3.85

8 000+

👑 Royal Biography 🇬🇧 British Monarchy 🎩 Victorian Era 💍 Marriage And Power 📖 Dual Biography

We Two

Victoria wore the crown. Albert wielded the power. Their tense partnership rebuilt the monarchy.

od Gillian Gill 2009 460 stran

3.85

8 000+ hodnocení

👑 Royal Biography 🇬🇧 British Monarchy 🎩 Victorian Era 💍 Marriage And Power 📖 Dual Biography

Rebel Angels

od Libba Bray • 2004

When magic bleeds into Victorian London, a schoolgirl must find its source before a sorceress does.

3.94

100 000+

🏫 Magical Boarding School 🕯️ Victorian Gothic 🚪 Portal Fantasy 🕵️ Secret Society 👯 Female Friendship

Rebel Angels

When magic bleeds into Victorian London, a schoolgirl must find its source before a sorceress does.

od Libba Bray 2004 548 stran

3.94

100 000+ hodnocení

🏫 Magical Boarding School 🕯️ Victorian Gothic 🚪 Portal Fantasy 🕵️ Secret Society 👯 Female Friendship

Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood

od James Malcolm Rymer • 1845

A fanged neighbor mirrors the cursed portrait on their wall. Their daughter is his prey.

3.40

1 000+

🏰 Victorian Gothic 🩸 Tragic Vampire 💀 Ancestral Curse 📰 Penny Dreadful 🎭 Gothic Melodrama

Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood

A fanged neighbor mirrors the cursed portrait on their wall. Their daughter is his prey.

od James Malcolm Rymer 1845 809 stran

3.40

1 000+ hodnocení

🏰 Victorian Gothic 🩸 Tragic Vampire 💀 Ancestral Curse 📰 Penny Dreadful 🎭 Gothic Melodrama

The Wonder

od Emma Donoghue • 2016

An English nurse watches a fasting Irish child and discovers a horror no prayer can heal.

3.65

91 000+

🍂 Post-Famine Ireland ⚖️ Faith Versus Science 🕊️ Fasting Girl 🙏 Miracle Or Fraud 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family

The Wonder

An English nurse watches a fasting Irish child and discovers a horror no prayer can heal.

od Emma Donoghue 2016 291 stran

3.65

91 000+ hodnocení

🍂 Post-Famine Ireland ⚖️ Faith Versus Science 🕊️ Fasting Girl 🙏 Miracle Or Fraud 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family

Women in the Valley of the Kings

od Kathleen Sheppard • 2024

Egyptology's famous men dug up tombs. The women who built the field got erased.

3.50

1 000+

🏛️ History Of Egyptology 🧳 Victorian Travel 🔬 Women In Science 🤝 Female Networks 📜 Revisionist History

Women in the Valley of the Kings

Egyptology's famous men dug up tombs. The women who built the field got erased.

od Kathleen Sheppard 2024 320 stran

3.50

1 000+ hodnocení

🏛️ History Of Egyptology 🧳 Victorian Travel 🔬 Women In Science 🤝 Female Networks 📜 Revisionist History

The Mayor of Casterbridge

od Thomas Hardy • 1886

He sells his wife at a country fair. Years later, as mayor, his past resurfaces.

3.87

66 000+

🎭 Victorian Tragedy 🔄 Rise And Fall 😳 Public Shame 🤫 Family Secrets 💼 Business Rivalry

The Mayor of Casterbridge

He sells his wife at a country fair. Years later, as mayor, his past resurfaces.

od Thomas Hardy 1886 393 stran

3.87

66 000+ hodnocení

🎭 Victorian Tragedy 🔄 Rise And Fall 😳 Public Shame 🤫 Family Secrets 💼 Business Rivalry

The Darwin Affair

od Timothy Mason • 2019

A detective hunting a royal assassin uncovers a conspiracy bent on destroying Charles Darwin.

3.66

10 000+

🕵️ Victorian Detective 📜 Historical Conspiracy 👮 Disgraced Detective 🎭 Disfigured Villain 🌑 Gothic Undertones

The Darwin Affair

A detective hunting a royal assassin uncovers a conspiracy bent on destroying Charles Darwin.

od Timothy Mason 2019 373 stran

3.66

10 000+ hodnocení

🕵️ Victorian Detective 📜 Historical Conspiracy 👮 Disgraced Detective 🎭 Disfigured Villain 🌑 Gothic Undertones

Hard Times

od Charles Dickens • 1854

A father raises his children on cold reason, never guessing the cost until their lives unravel.

3.55

75 000+

🏭 Industrial Fiction 💔 Loveless Marriage 🥀 Father-Daughter Rift 🥶 Emotional Repression 😏 Bleak And Satirical

Hard Times

A father raises his children on cold reason, never guessing the cost until their lives unravel.

od Charles Dickens 1854 384 stran

3.55

75 000+ hodnocení

🏭 Industrial Fiction 💔 Loveless Marriage 🥀 Father-Daughter Rift 🥶 Emotional Repression 😏 Bleak And Satirical

The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes

od Andrew Lycett • 2007

Holmes made him famous and miserable. Doyle preferred séances, battlefields, and righting wrongs.

3.91

299

📚 Literary Biography 👑 Victorian England 🔍 Detective Fiction 👻 Spiritualism ⭐ Literary Celebrity

The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes

Holmes made him famous and miserable. Doyle preferred séances, battlefields, and righting wrongs.

od Andrew Lycett 2007 825 stran

3.91

299 hodnocení

📚 Literary Biography 👑 Victorian England 🔍 Detective Fiction 👻 Spiritualism ⭐ Literary Celebrity

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