A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens http://www.feedbooks.com/book/81 urn:isbn:0553211765 en 1859 Novels History <p>A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It depicts the plight of the French proletariat under the brutal oppression of the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, and the corresponding savage brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events, most notably Charles Darnay, a French once-aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Sydney Carton, a dissipated English barrister who endeavours to redeem his ill-spent life out of love for Darnay's wife, Lucie Manette.</p> http://www.feedbooks.com/book/81.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/81.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/81.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/81.mobi Adam Bede George Eliot http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3743 urn:isbn:0140436642 en 1859 Novels History <p>Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time. <br />The story's plot follows four characters' rural lives in the fictional community of Hayslope—a rural, pastoral and close-knit community in 1799. The novel revolves around a love triangle between beautiful but self-absorbed Hetty Sorrel, Captain Arthur Donnithorne, the young squire who seduces her, Adam Bede, her unacknowledged suitor, and Dinah Morris, Hetty's cousin, a fervent, virtuous and beautiful Methodist lay preacher. </p> http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3743.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3743.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3743.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3743.mobi Curious, If True: Strange Tales Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3335 en 1859 Short Fiction Horror Collections Ghost Stories <p>A collection of five spooky Victorian stories.</p> http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3335.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3335.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3335.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3335.mobi Home of the Gentry Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1923 en 1859 Novels http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1923.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1923.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1923.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1923.mobi Hunted Down Charles Dickens http://www.feedbooks.com/book/696 urn:isbn:0720612659 en 1859 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery <p>One might not necessarily think of Dickens as a mystery writer, but detectives and criminals do figure into much of his work. This...gathers a dozen of his stories featuring cops of one kind or another</p> http://www.feedbooks.com/book/696.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/696.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/696.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/696.mobi On Liberty John Stuart Mill http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4202 en 1859 Non-Fiction Philosophy <p>On Liberty is a philosophical work by 19th century English philosopher John Stuart Mill, first published in 1859. To the Victorian readers of the time it was a radical work, advocating moral and economic freedom of individuals from the state.</p> http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4202.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4202.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4202.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4202.mobi The Haunted House Charles Dickens http://www.feedbooks.com/book/305 urn:isbn:0812973062 en 1859 Short Fiction Ghost Stories http://www.feedbooks.com/book/305.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/305.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/305.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/305.mobi The Lifted Veil George Eliot http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4316 en 1859 Short Fiction Psychology Gothic <p>The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot, first published in 1859. Quite unlike the realistic fiction for which Eliot is best known, The Lifted Veil explores themes of extrasensory perception, the essence of physical life, possible life after death, and the power of fate. The novella is a significant part of the Victorian tradition of horror fiction, which includes such other examples as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897).</p> http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4316.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4316.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4316.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4316.mobi The Virginians William Makepeace Thackeray http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1554 en 1859 Novels History <p>Sequel to The History of Henry Esmond.</p> http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1554.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1554.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1554.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1554.mobi