Books like Bleak House
A vast web of people, from a crossing sweeper to a baronet's wife, is connected by Jarndyce and Jarndyce, a lawsuit that has consumed generations, exposing the rot at the heart of Victorian institutions.
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Our Mutual Friend
Dickens' final completed novel threads a drowned heir, a dust-heap inheritance, and a marriage hunt through a London whose river is mostly bodies and money.
David Copperfield
David Copperfield tells his own life, from a happy early childhood and a cruel stepfather to a London factory, his eccentric aunt's rescue and his slow growth into a writer, in Dickens' most personal novel.
Jack Maggs
In 1837, Jack Maggs, a convict transported to Australia, comes back secretly to London to find the young gentleman he has paid for, and is studied by Tobias Oates, an ambitious young writer.
The Fraud
The housekeeper and cousin-in-law of a fading Victorian novelist becomes obsessed with the Tichborne trial, where a butcher claims to be a lost aristocrat and a formerly enslaved man testifies for him.
The Judas Window
James Answell is found unconscious in a locked study beside the body of his prospective father-in-law, shot through with an arrow, and Sir Henry Merrivale has to prove at the Old Bailey that he didn't do it.
The Forsyte Saga
Three novels following the Forsytes, a wealthy London family of the late Victorian age, beginning with Soames, a solicitor who treats his beautiful wife Irene as one more of his possessions.
The Luminaries
A massive, astrologically structured novel set during the New Zealand gold rush, where twelve men's fates interlock like a celestial mechanism.
Sinister Street
Michael Fane, born in the 1880s to a mother who is often away and a father he never sees, grows up in Kensington with his sister and their nurse, and goes on to school in West London.
A Frolic of His Own
Oscar Crease, a middle-aged college teacher and would-be playwright, is suing a Hollywood studio for stealing his play about his grandfather in the Civil War, and soon he is suing almost everyone.
John Henry Days
A freelance junket writer covers a 1996 West Virginia festival for a John Henry postage stamp, while the novel roams across a century of people who sang, studied and sold the legend.
Fingersmith
In 1860s London, Sue Trinder, a young thief, is placed as maid to a rich, sheltered heiress, Maud Lilly, as part of a con to steal her fortune, and nothing goes as planned.
Affinity
In 1874 a grieving gentlewoman begins visiting the women's wing of Millbank prison as a Lady Visitor and becomes fascinated by an inmate, a young spirit medium jailed after a seance went wrong.