 | Sherlock Holmes: Original Illustrated "Strand" Edition: The Complete Stories (Wordsworth Special Editions) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Buy new: £4.47 / Used from: £0.89 Arthur Conan Doyle was there. No messing, this is the Victorian London in full glory, fog, horse-drawn cabs and Holmes, one of the few to walk across all the echelons of society.
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 | The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.01 A modern masterpiece, giving prostitutes a voice.
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 | The Woman in White (Penguin Popular Classics) by Wilkie Collins
Buy new: £2.25 / Used from: £0.01 The original detective novel? It's up for discussion, but worth a read for sure.
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 | Affinity (Virago V) by Sarah Waters
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.05 A window on spiritualism in the C19th. You have to love Sarah Waters.
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 | Sweet Thames by Matthew Kneale
Buy used from: £0.01 A great take on the cholera crisis of 1800s.
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 | The Welfare of the Dead by Lee Jackson
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 Lee Jackson is a fun read, whodunnits in darker (?) times.
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 | Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 Ok, not quite Victoriana, but a fascinating look a transportee that made it back to the motherland.
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 | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror (Penguin Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £1.10 A classic. A superb example of dualism, good v evil, upper v lower classes. A must-read.
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 | Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 3: 1,000 Headwords: The Picture of Dorian Gray Audio CD Pack: 1000 Headwords by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: £8.00 Just because.
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