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The Making of Victorian Values: Decency and Dissent in Britain, 1789-1837

8 best books like The Making of Victorian Values: Decency and Dissent in Britain, 1789-1837 (Ben Wilson): As I Lay Dying, Goodbye, Paris, The Tombs of Atuan, The Corset, Bend Sinister, His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae, The Fearsome Foursome, Rome: A History in Seven Sackings

As I Lay Dying
AuthorWilliam Faulkner
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Narrated in turn by each of the family members—including Addie herself—as well as others, the novel ranges in mood, from dark comedy to the...
Goodbye, Paris
AuthorAnstey Harris
ISBN1501196502
Jojo Moyes meets Eleanor Oliphant in Goodbye, Paris, an utterly charming novel that proves that sometimes you have to break your heart to make it whole.

Grace once had the beginnings of a promising musical career, but she hasn’t been able to play her cello publicly since a traumatic event...
The Tombs of Atuan
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
ISBN0689845367
Librarian's Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click here.

When young Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth, everything is taken away - home, family, possessions, even her name. For she is now Arha, the Eaten One, guardian of the...
The Corset
AuthorLaura Purcell
ISBN1408889617
The new Victorian chiller from the author of Radio 2 Book Club pick, The Silent Companions.

Is prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer? Victim or villain?

Dorothea and Ruth. Prison visitor and prisoner. Powerful and powerless. Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy and beautiful....
Bend Sinister
AuthorVladimir Nabokov
ISBN0141185767
The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine ‘Average Man’ party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has done away with individualism and freedom of thought. Only John Krug, a brilliant philosopher, stands up to the regime. His antagonist,...
His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae
AuthorGraeme Macrae Burnet
ISBN1910192147
In 1869, a brutal triple murder in the remote Wester Ross village of Culduie leads to the arrest of a seventeen-year-old crofter, Roderick Macrae. There is no question of Macrae’s guilt, but it falls to the country’s most eminent legal and psychiatric minds to uncover what drove him to his bloody...
The Fearsome Foursome
AuthorAmicus Arcane
Welcome, foolish mortals, to Disney Press' spookiest chapter book series yet: Tales from the Haunted Mansion! Based on the attractions from the Disney Parks, each new book tells the story of one of the Haunted Mansion's 999 ghosts. With eerie illustrations throughout and a beautiful three-piece...
Rome: A History in Seven Sackings
AuthorMatthew Kneale
ISBN1786492334
No city on earth has preserved its past as has Rome. Visitors stand on bridges that were crossed by Julius Caesar and Cicero, walk around temples visited by Roman emperors, and step into churches that have hardly changed since popes celebrated mass in them sixteen centuries ago.
These architectural...
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