1800-1899 (19th century)

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1800-1899 (19th century)

Middlemarch

a study of provincial life
1991
Provides a portrait of English provincial life in the nineteenth century, focusing on Dorothea Brooks and her two marriages, Dr. Lydgate, and the Vincy family.

Black hearts in Battersea

1981
A fifteen-year-old orphan in 19th century London becomes involved in a plot against the king.

Crucible of war

the Seven Years' War and the fate of empire in British North America, 1754-1766
2000
A narrative history of the Seven Years' War during which Great Britain eliminated French power north of the Caribbean, focusing on the impact of the war on the political and cultural landscape of North America.

Prince Albert

a biography
1984
Examines the life of the husband of Queen Victoria, his influence in British imperial and foreign policy and his accomplishments and activities.

Britain since 1789

a concise history
1999
Studies the social, political, and economic changes that took place in Great Britain from the late eighteenth century to the present day.

The Count of Monte Cristo

1996
After escaping from the island where he has been in prison, Dantes plots his revenge on the people responsible for his imprisonment.

The pawloined paper

2000
While helping Joe protect a top-secret note, Wishbone remembers the brilliant French detective, C. Auguste Dupin, who lived in Paris in the nineteenth century and solved crimes using psychological reasoning.

The Count of Monte Cristo

1988
Nineteen-year-old French sailor Edmond Dantes is unjustly imprisoned on his planned wedding day, and--after fourteen years of solitary confinement--a daring escape, hidden riches on the island of Monte Cristo, and a new identity bring him closer to a reunion with his love, Mercedes, and revenge upon his accusers.

Finding out about Victorian towns

1982
Presents many features of life in the towns of Victorian England, often as written down by the people of the time.

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