The 19th-Century British Literature Reading Path

According to Groblé

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

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