One of the great pleasures of reading C19th literature is being able to enter into what Penelope Fitzgerald called ‘the imagined past’ – imagined by us now and, in some of these novels, by their authors. Here we have detailed anecdotes and impressions of the lives of the Russian peasantry from Turgenev; an evocation of the north-west highlands of Scotland after the 1745 Jacobite rising in Stevenson’s astounding and dastardly romp; the gently humorous domestic life of a quiet village in 1830s England, marvellously depicted in Mrs Gaskell’s last novel and masterpiece; Fontane’s exploration of unhappy marriage; two strong heroines doing their best to achieve independencec in Hester; and spectacular political and financial corruption in what is perhaps Trollope’s greatest novel.

This bundle includes:

Effi Briest, Theodor Fontane
Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell
Hester, Margaret Oliphant
The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope
Sketches from a Hunter’s Album, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson

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