Category
page 1Novels set in the 1830s

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.

Vanity Fair
1848 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray

An Antarctic Mystery
1897 novel by Jules Verne

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

Stardust
1998 novel by Neil Gaiman

The Mill on the Floss
novel by George Eliot

The Horseman on the Roof
1951 novel by Jean Giono

Wives and Daughters
novel by Elizabeth Gaskell

The Confessions of Nat Turner
novel by William Styron

Tom Brown's School Days
novel by Thomas Hughes

Babel
2022 novel by R. F. Kuang

Ursule Mirouët
novel by Balzac

Felix Holt, the Radical
novel by George Eliot

The Janissary Tree
2006 novel by Jason Goodwin

Confessions of a Thug
1839 novel by Philip Meadows Taylor

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
novel by Avi