Category
page 1Novels set in 1832

Les Misérables
1862 novel by Victor Hugo

Middlemarch
Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by English author George Eliot. It appeared in eight installments (volumes) in 1871 and 1872. Set in Middlemarch, a fictional English Midlands town, from 1829 to 1832, it follows distinct, intersecting stories with many characters. Issues include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education. Leavened with comic elements, Middlemarch approaches significant historical events in a realist mode: the Reform Act 1832, early railways, and the accession of King William IV. I

The Horseman on the Roof
1951 novel by Jean Giono

Felix Holt, the Radical
novel by George Eliot

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
novel by Avi

Confessions of a Thug
1839 novel by Philip Meadows Taylor