Viktorijos laikų

Viktorijos laikų Anglija atgyja per didingus pasakojimus apie meilę, klasių kovą ir socialinius sukrėtimus pramonės revoliucijos ir griežto padorumo fone. Šie meistriški kūriniai tyrinėja sudėtingus įsimintiną personažų gyvenimus, kai jie bando rasti kelią tarp meilės, ambicijų ir moralės sparčiai besikeičiančiame garo variklių, kaimo dvarų ir griežtų socialinių normų pasaulyje.

Viktorijos laikų knygų santraukos

Victorian Psycho

parašė 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

Įtraukiantys

Victorian Psycho

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

parašė Virginia Feito 2025 208 puslapiai

3.53

55 000+ įvertinimai

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

Nakties cirkas

parašė 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

Įtraukiantys

Nakties cirkas

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

parašė Erin Morgenstern 2011 506 puslapiai

4.00

1 000 000+ įvertinimai

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

Baskervilių šuo

parašė 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

Baskervilių šuo

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

parašė Arthur Conan Doyle 1902 256 puslapiai

4.14

300 000+ įvertinimai

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

The Devil in the White City

parašė 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.

parašė Erik Larson 2003 464 puslapiai

4.00

700 000+ įvertinimai

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

Doriano Grėjaus portretas

parašė 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

Įtraukiantys

Doriano Grėjaus portretas

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

parašė Oscar Wilde 1890 272 puslapiai

4.14

1 000 000+ įvertinimai

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

The Ice Monster

parašė 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.

parašė David Walliams 2018 496 puslapiai

4.20

8 000+ įvertinimai

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

Drakula

parašė 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

Įtraukiantys

Drakula

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

parašė Bram Stoker 1897 488 puslapiai

4.02

1 000 000+ įvertinimai

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

Šiaurė ir pietūs

parašė Elizabeth Gaskell • 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

Šiaurė ir pietūs

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

parašė Elizabeth Gaskell 1855 521 puslapiai

4.15

100 000+ įvertinimai

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

Šerloko Holmso nuotykiai

parašė 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

Šerloko Holmso nuotykiai

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

parašė Arthur Conan Doyle 1892 389 puslapiai

4.30

300 000+ įvertinimai

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

Alisa stebuklų šalyje / Alisa veidrodžio karalystėje

parašė 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

Alisa stebuklų šalyje / Alisa veidrodžio karalystėje Santrauka

Įtraukiantys

Alisa stebuklų šalyje / Alisa veidrodžio karalystėje

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

parašė Lewis Carroll 1871 239 puslapiai

4.06

600 000+ įvertinimai

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

Vaildfelo dvaro nuomininkė

parašė Anne Brontë • 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

Vaildfelo dvaro nuomininkė

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

parašė Anne Brontë 1848 576 puslapiai

4.04

100 000+ įvertinimai

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

Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hide

parašė 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.

parašė Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 36 puslapiai

3.83

600 000+ įvertinimai

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

The Yellow Wall-Paper

parašė 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.

parašė Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1892 54 puslapiai

4.07

11 000+ įvertinimai

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

Keturių ženklas

parašė 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

Keturių ženklas

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

parašė Arthur Conan Doyle 1890 129 puslapiai

3.88

100 000+ įvertinimai

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

Agnes Grey

parašė 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.

parašė Anne Brontë 1847 226 puslapiai

3.71

83 000+ įvertinimai

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

Deividas Koperfildas

parašė 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

Deividas Koperfildas

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

parašė Charles Dickens 1850 882 puslapiai

4.05

200 000+ įvertinimai

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

Alisa stebuklų šalyje

parašė 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

Alisa stebuklų šalyje

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

parašė Lewis Carroll 1865 320 puslapiai

3.99

400 000+ įvertinimai

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

An Old-Fashioned Girl

parašė 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.

parašė Louisa May Alcott 1870 288 puslapiai

4.09

22 000+ įvertinimai

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

Nematomas žmogus

parašė 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

Nematomas žmogus

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

parašė H.G. Wells 1897 192 puslapiai

3.63

200 000+ įvertinimai

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

Middlemarch

parašė 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.

parašė George Eliot 1872 912 puslapiai

4.04

100 000+ įvertinimai

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

Kelionė aplink pasaulį per 80 dienų

parašė 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

Kelionė aplink pasaulį per 80 dienų

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

parašė Jules Verne 1872 252 puslapiai

3.95

200 000+ įvertinimai

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

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

parašė 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.

parašė Arthur Conan Doyle 1914 709 puslapiai

4.48

82 000+ įvertinimai

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

Stalking Jack the Ripper

parašė 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.

parašė Kerri Maniscalco 2016 337 puslapiai

3.92

100 000+ įvertinimai

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

Villette

parašė 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.

parašė Charlotte Brontë 1853 573 puslapiai

3.78

81 000+ įvertinimai

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

Keistas daktaro Džekilo ir pono Haido atvejis ir kitos siaubo istorijos

parašė 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

Keistas daktaro Džekilo ir pono Haido atvejis ir kitos siaubo istorijos

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

parašė Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 224 puslapiai

3.91

100 000+ įvertinimai

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

Oliveris Tvistas

parašė 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

Oliveris Tvistas

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

parašė Charles Dickens 1838 608 puslapiai

3.88

400 000+ įvertinimai

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

Studija raudonuoju

parašė 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

Studija raudonuoju

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

parašė Arthur Conan Doyle 1887 123 puslapiai

4.13

400 000+ įvertinimai

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

The Secret Book Society

parašė 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

Įtraukiantys

The Secret Book Society

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

parašė Madeline Martin 2025 336 puslapiai

4.07

31 000+ įvertinimai

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

Visas Šerlokas Holmsas

parašė 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

Visas Šerlokas Holmsas

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

parašė Arthur Conan Doyle 1887 1796 puslapiai

4.51

200 000+ įvertinimai

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

The Complete Novels of Sherlock Holmes

parašė 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.

parašė Arthur Conan Doyle 2015 536 puslapiai

4.34

3 000+ įvertinimai

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

Estudio en escarlata / La señal de los cuatro

parašė 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.

parašė Arthur Conan Doyle 2005 248 puslapiai

4.13

10 000+ įvertinimai

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

The Return of the Native

parašė 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.

parašė Thomas Hardy 1878 426 puslapiai

3.88

40 000+ įvertinimai

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

Bleak House

parašė 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.

parašė Charles Dickens 1853 1017 puslapiai

4.02

100 000+ įvertinimai

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

The Sweet Far Thing

parašė 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.

parašė Libba Bray 2007 819 puslapiai

3.97

73 000+ įvertinimai

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

Toli nuo beprotiškai minios

parašė 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

Toli nuo beprotiškai minios

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

parašė Thomas Hardy 1874 433 puslapiai

3.97

100 000+ įvertinimai

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

Dideli lūkesčiai

parašė 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

Dideli lūkesčiai

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

parašė Charles Dickens 1861 544 puslapiai

3.80

800 000+ įvertinimai

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

Moteris baltais drabužiais

parašė 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

Moteris baltais drabužiais

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

parašė Wilkie Collins 1859 672 puslapiai

4.02

100 000+ įvertinimai

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

Kaip svarbu būti rimtam

parašė 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

Kaip svarbu būti rimtam

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

parašė Oscar Wilde 1895 89 puslapiai

4.17

400 000+ įvertinimai

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

Charles Dickens in Love

parašė 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.

parašė Robert Garnett 2012 368 puslapiai

3.93

70 įvertinimai

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

A Tale of Two Cities / Great Expectations

parašė 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.

parašė Charles Dickens 1859 834 puslapiai

4.02

17 000+ įvertinimai

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

Varžto posūkis

parašė 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

Varžto posūkis

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

parašė Henry James 1898 121 puslapiai

3.38

100 000+ įvertinimai

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

We Two

parašė 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.

parašė Gillian Gill 2009 460 puslapiai

3.85

8 000+ įvertinimai

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

Rebel Angels

parašė 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.

parašė Libba Bray 2004 548 puslapiai

3.94

100 000+ įvertinimai

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

Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood

parašė 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.

parašė James Malcolm Rymer 1845 809 puslapiai

3.40

1 000+ įvertinimai

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

The Wonder

parašė 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.

parašė Emma Donoghue 2016 291 puslapiai

3.65

91 000+ įvertinimai

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

Women in the Valley of the Kings

parašė 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.

parašė Kathleen Sheppard 2024 320 puslapiai

3.50

1 000+ įvertinimai

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

The Mayor of Casterbridge

parašė 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.

parašė Thomas Hardy 1886 393 puslapiai

3.87

66 000+ įvertinimai

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

The Darwin Affair

parašė 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.

parašė Timothy Mason 2019 373 puslapiai

3.66

10 000+ įvertinimai

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

Hard Times

parašė 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.

parašė Charles Dickens 1854 384 puslapiai

3.55

75 000+ įvertinimai

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

The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes

parašė 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.

parašė Andrew Lycett 2007 825 puslapiai

3.91

299 įvertinimai

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

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