The Morgesons
10 best books like The Morgesons (Elizabeth Stoddard): The Lamplighter, The Blithedale Romance, The Egoist, The House with Chicken Legs, The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories, Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto, The Doctor's Wife, Hester, East Lynne, Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time
| Author | Maria Susanna Cummins |
| ISBN | 0813513332 |
Excerpt from The Lamplighter
Haunted Hearts She became a frequent con tributor to The Atlantic Monthly and other magazines. But her sudden popularity left her quite unspoiled. A singular modesty, a childlike simplicity, a deep and beauti ful religious faith, were the qualities that endeared...
| Author | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| ISBN | 1406501336 |
Abjuring the city for a pastoral life, a group of utopians set out to reform a dissipated America. But the group is a powerful mix of competing ambitions and its idealism finds little satisfaction in farmwork. Instead, of changing the world, the members of the Blithedale community individually pursue...
| Author | George Meredith |
| ISBN | 0140430342 |
Virginia Woolf said of The Egoist: 'Meredith pays us a supreme compliment to which as novel-readers we are little accustomed ... He imagines us capable of disinterested curiosity in the behaviour of our kind.' In this, the most dazzlingly intellectual of all his novels, Meredith tries to illuminate...
The House with Chicken Legs
| Author | Sophie Anderson |
| ISBN | 1474940668 |
All 12-year-old Marinka wants is a friend. A real friend. Not like her house with chicken legs. Sure, the house can play games like tag and hide-and-seek, but Marinka longs for a human companion. Someone she can talk to and share secrets with.
But that's tough when your grandmother is a Yaga, a guardian...
| Author | Michael Cox |
| ISBN | 0192804472 |
The Victorians excelled at telling ghost stories. In an age of rapid scientific progress, the idea of a vindictive past able to reach out and violate the present held a special potential for terror. Throughout the nineteenth century, fictional ghost stories developed in parallel with the more general...
| Author | Abraham Cahan |
| ISBN | 0486224279 |
"No American fiction of the year merits recognition more than this Russian's stories of Yiddish life. … [Mr. Cahan] is a humorist, and his humor does not spare the sordid and uncouth aspects of the character whose pathos he so tenderly reveals." — William Dean Howells
In Yekl, the central...
| Author | Mary Elizabeth Braddon |
| ISBN | 0192833014 |
When The Doctor's Wife was first published in 1864, Mary Elizabeth Braddon was well known for her scandalous bestseller, Lady Audley's Secret. Adultery, death, and the spectacle of female recrimination and suffering are the elements that combine to make The Doctor's Wife a classic women's 'sensation'...
| Author | Mrs. Oliphant |
| ISBN | 0192804111 |
Hester tells the story of the aging but powerful Catherine Vernon, and her conflict with the young and determined Hester, whose growing attachment to Edward, Catherine's favorite, spells disaster for all concerned.
Catherine Vernon, jilted in her youth, has risen to power in a man's world...
| Author | Mrs. Henry Wood |
| ISBN | 0192804626 |
When the aristocratic Lady Isabel abandons her husband and children for her wicked seducer, more is at stake than moral retribution.
Ellen Wood played upon the anxieties of the Victorian middle classes who feared a breakdown of the social order as divorce became more readily available and...
Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time
| Author | Fanny Fern |
| ISBN | 0140436405 |
In Ruth Hall, one of the bestselling novels of the 1850s, Fanny Fern drew heavily on her own experiences: the death of her first child and her beloved husband, a bitter estrangement from her family, and her struggle to make a living as a writer. Written as a series of short vignettes and snatches of overheard...
| Author | Hannah Webster Foster |
| ISBN | 0195042395 |
The Coquette tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poet from Hartford, Connecticut.
Written as a series of letters--between the heroine and her friends and lovers--it describes her long, tortuous courtship by two men, neither of whom perfectly...
