The 19th-Century British Literature Reading Path
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Austen, Mary Shelley, Dickens, the Brontes, Eliot, Darwin, Hardy, Wilde, Conrad, Stoker - a British century of social novels, science, Gothic terror, and imperial unease.
20 works · 10,043 pages, in reading order
- 1Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen · 1813Easy · 435 pages
- 2EmmaJane Austen · 1815Easy · 512 pages
- 3PersuasionJane Austen · 1817Easy · 250 pages
- 4FrankensteinMary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 1818Breezy · 273 pages
- 5Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë · 1847Easy · 578 pages
- 6Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë · 1847Easy · 353 pages
- 7Vanity FairWilliam Makepeace Thackeray · 1847Easy · 912 pages
- 8David CopperfieldCharles Dickens · 1850Easy · 1024 pages
- 9Bleak HouseCharles Dickens · 1853Easy · 945 pages
- 10The Origin of SpeciesCharles Darwin · 1859Grueling · 480 pages
- 11A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens · 1859Easy · 406 pages
- 12The Woman in WhiteWilkie Collins · 1859Easy · 671 pages
- 13Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-GlassLewis Carroll · 1871Breezy · 357 pages
- 14MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot · 1872Hard · 810 pages
- 15Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson · 1882Breezy · 210 pages
- 16The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde · 1890Moderate · 252 pages
- 17Tess of the D’UrbervillesThomas Hardy · 1891Easy · 517 pages
- 18DraculaBram Stoker · 1897Easy · 466 pages
- 19Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad · 1899Grueling · 192 pages
- 20Lord JimJoseph Conrad · 1900Grueling · 400 pages



















