Great Expectations
1861 · 469 pages
Pip, a blacksmith's boy, is handed a fortune by an unknown benefactor and turns snob. Miss Havisham waits in her rotted wedding dress, and Dickens makes the shame of low birth unbearable.
★ 8.8
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
1861 · 176 pages
Seven years in a crawlspace three feet high, watching her children through a peephole. Jacobs named what men's slave narratives left out: the owner who pursued her from her teens.
★ 6.8
Silas Marner
1861 · 209 pages
Robbed of gold he hoarded for fifteen years, a lonely weaver finds a golden-haired child on his hearth. Eliot turns a village fable into a full account of how a person is repaired.
★ 6.7