Category
page 1Novels set in the 1810s

War and Peace
1869 novel by Leo Tolstoy

Les Misérables
1862 novel by Victor Hugo

The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel by the French writer Alexandre Dumas. It was serialised from 1844 to 1846, then published in book form in 1846. It is one of his most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers (1844) and Man in the Iron Mask (1850). Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter, Auguste Maquet. It is regarded as a classic of French and world literature.

Great Expectations
1861 novel by Charles Dickens

Père Goriot
1835 novel by Honoré de Balzac

Persuasion
1817 novel by Jane Austen

Vanity Fair
1848 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray

Shirley
1849 novel by Charlotte Brontë

Jamaica Inn
novel by Daphne du Maurier

Kindred
1979 novel by Octavia E. Butler
The Armour of Light
2023 novel by Ken Follett