Victorian Literature
Classic works from the Victorian era featuring period-appropriate themes of marriage, propriety, and social convention.
Summaries
The Enchanted April
Five English women of different ages and circumstances find unexpected love, friendship, and self-discovery at a rented Italian medieval castle, their transformations driven by beauty, honest conversation, and the liberating power of sunshine.
The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A respected London physician's experiment to separate his dual nature creates the monstrous Edward Hyde, leading to violence and investigation before the devastating truth of their shared identity is revealed.
The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw, Covering End
This collection pairs Henry James's ambiguous ghost story "The Turn of the Screw," in which a governess at a country estate perceives spectral threats to her charges, with the lighter social comedy "Covering End," in which a penniless heir must choose between his political principles and his ancestral home, with a wealthy American woman's intervention determining the outcome of both.