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• The Signature of All Things

  Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969-

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  "Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) returns to fiction with a sprawling 19th-century saga about a young botanist, Alma Whittaker. Alma's fascination with plants (mosses in particular), combined with her recently broken heart, leads her from her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Essex Serpent

  a Novel

  Perry, Sarah

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  An exquisitely talented young British author makes her American debut with this rapturously acclaimed historical novel, set in late nineteenth-century England, about an intellectually minded young widow, a pious vicar, and a rumored…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• To Say Nothing of the Dog

  Willis, Connie

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  From Connie Willis, winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, comes a comedic romp through an unpredictable world of mystery, love, and time travel . . . Ned Henry is badly in need of a rest. He’s been shuttling between the 21st century…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Dickens

  A Novel

  Pearl, Matthew

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  "When a young clerk mysteriously dies trying to pick up the sixth installment of Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood, publisher James Osgood travels to England searching for clues to how the recently deceased Dickens meant to end…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Crimson Petal and the White

  A Novel

  Faber, Michel

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  "Faber's bawdy, brilliant third novel tells an intricate tale of love and ambition and paints a new portrait of Victorian England and its citizens in prose crackling with insight and bravado. Using the wealthy Rackham clan as a focal point…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The French Lieutenant's Woman

  Fowles, John, 1926-2005

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  A love story set at Lyme Regis, England in the 19th century. Charles Smithson, a young gentleman of traditional values, is engaged to a wealthy girl. His destiny is haunted by the independent and poor Sarah Woodruff.

• The Sealed Letter

  Donoghue, Emma, 1969-

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  Emily "Fido" Faithfull, a spinster pioneer in the British women's movement, is distracted from her cause by the details of her friend's failing marriage and affair with a young army officer, in this drama of friends, lovers, and divorce,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Possession

  Byatt, A. S.

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  A young academic couple's attempt to trace the relationship between two turbulent, romantic, and superstitious Victorian poets reveals uncanny parallels with their own lives and culminates in the exhumation of a poet's corpse.

• The Luminaries

  Catton, Eleanor

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  Arriving in New Zealand in 1866 to seek his fortune in the goldfields, Walter Moody finds himself drawn into a series of unsolved crimes and complex mysteries.