18 books like Dr. Wortle's school

What to read after Dr. Wortle's school — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Amelia Henry Fielding · 1751 · 594p · ≈ 19h · Challenging Against her mother's wishes, Amelia marries Captain William Booth, a young army officer, and runs away to London. William is unjustly imprisoned in Newgate, and is subsequently seduced by Miss Matthews. Amelia stays faithful to her husband and forgives his transgression, but William soon draws them into trouble again as he accrues gambling debts trying to lift the couple out of poverty. Shares Married people, England, Social life and customs

Dodsworth Sinclair Lewis · 1929 · ★ 4.0 · 389p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A middle-aged American retires and he and his wife go to Europe where they find a new set of values and relationships. Shares Married people, Americans

The two destinies Wilkie Collins · 1876 · ★ 3.7 · 102p · ≈ 3h · Challenging One of Wilkie Collins's 'sensation' novels of two lovers who face a life of accidents and vicissitudes when they are parted cruelly as children. Unknown to each other as the children they once were, they meet again and again in their adult lives, only to be separated. Wilkie brings in in his favourite tricks - bigamy, embezzlement, desertion, disfigurement, love that cannot be undone even in the… Shares Married people

A face at the window Dennis McFarland · 1997 · 314p · ≈ 10h · Moderate After sending their only daughter off to boarding school, Cookson Selway and his wife, Ellen, travel to London to escape their empty, echoing house. But their quiet hotel has guests other than those on the register, and a vacation intended to distract them from the present instead becomes a chilling confrontation with the past. Selway, an escapist with an alcoholic history and a gift for… Shares Americans, England

Peril in Paris

Peril in Paris Rhys Bowen · 2022 · ★ 4.5 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Lady Georgiana Rannoch and her husband, Darcy, are awaiting the arrival of their baby when they receive an unexpected invitation to visit Paris. However, their trip quickly turns into a tangled web of international intrigue as they become embroiled in a mystery involving murder, espionage, and high-stakes politics. Shares England

The Camelot caper Elizabeth Peters · 1969 · ★ 4.0 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The Lethal Stuff of LegendsFor Jessica Tregarth, an unexpected invitation to visit her grandfather in England is a wonderful surprise -- an opportunity to open doors to a family past that have always been closed to her. But sinister acts greet her arrival. A stranger tries to steal her luggage and later accosts her in Salisbury Cathedral. Mysterious villains pursue her through Cornwall, their… Shares Americans, England

Our Old Home Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1863 · 398p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Our Old Home, a series of English sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This volume of charming sketches was published in 1863, and (in the words of the author) presents “a few of the external aspects of English scenery and life, especially those that are touched with the antique charm to which our countrymen are more susceptible than are the people among whom it is of native growth.” Shares Americans, Social life and customs

Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray · 1800 · ★ 3.8 · 699p · ≈ 23h · Demanding No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles - military and domestic - are fought,… Shares Married people, England, Social life and customs

He knew he was right Anthony Trollope · 1869 · ★ 3.9 · 938p · ≈ 31h · Demanding Widely regarded as one of Trollope's most successful later novels,He Knew He Was Right is a study of marriage and of sexual relationships cast against a background of agitation for women's rights. Shares Married people, England, Social life and customs

The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq Washington Irving · 1819 · 322p · ≈ 10h · Challenging The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon is the compilation of 34 short stories and essays by Washington Irving. It includes some of his most famous stories, such as The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle, and was one of the first works of American fiction to become popular in Britain and Europe. The tone of the stories varies widely, and they are held together by the powerful charm of their… Shares Americans, England, Social life and customs

The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray · 1853 · ★ 3.7 · 801p · ≈ 26h · Demanding The Newcomes is Thackeray's most essentially 'Victorian' novel, generous in its proportions, sharp in its criticism of the moral convolutions of the age, and encyclopaedic in its reference. Set in the 1830s and 1840s, a period of rapid change and of political and economic development, the novel considers the fortunes and misfortunes of a 'most respectable' extended middle-class family. The action… Shares England, Social life and customs

The Headsman: Or, The Abbaye Des Vignerons. A Tale James Fenimore Cooper · 1800 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Early in October 1832, a travelling-carriage stopped on the summit of that long descent where the road pitches from the elevated plain of Moudon in Switzerland to the level of the lake of Geneva, immediately above the little city of Vevey. The postilion had dismounted to chain a wheel, and the halt enabled those he conducted to catch a glimpse of the lovely scenery of that remarkable view. Shares Americans

The Portrait of a Lady Henry James · 1881 · ★ 3.8 · 634p · ≈ 21h · Demanding Young American Isabel Archer charms European society, but falls prey to the machinations of a calculating older woman. Shares Married people, Americans, Social life and customs

Back Passage

Back Passage James Lear · 2006 · ★ 3.0 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Mitch is a handsome, insatiable 22-year-old hunk who never lets a clue stand in the way of a steamy encounter, whether it's with the local constabulary, the house secretary, or his school chum and fellow athlete Boy Morgan, who becomes his Watson. When Reg Walworth is found dead in a cabinet, Sir James Eagle has his servant Weeks immediately arrested as the killer. But Mitch's observant eye pegs… Shares Americans, England

Clayhanger Arnold Bennett · 1910 · 415p · ≈ 13h · Moderate This coming-of-age story set in the Midlands of Victorian England follows Edwin Clayhanger as he leaves school, takes over the family business and falls in love. Bennett wrote it in 1910 at the Royal Albion Hotel, Brighton, and in Lausanne. Edwin Clayhanger's father, Darius, has risen from an extremely poor background, which Bennett repeatedly returns to, to become a prominent printer in Bursley.… Shares England, Social life and customs

The Nonesuch Georgette Heyer · 1962 · ★ 4.1 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Moderate At the age of five-and-thirty, Sir Waldo Hawkridge, wealthy, handsome, eligible, illustrious, and known as the nonesuch for his athletic prowess, and when he comes north to inspect his unusual inheritance at Broom hall in the West Riding, his arrival leads to the most entertaining of ramifications. When they learned that Sir Waldo Hawkridge was coming, the village gentry were thrown into a… Shares England, Social life and customs

The Way of the World William Congreve · 1700 · ★ 3.3 · 182p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Shares Extortion, Social life and customs with this book.

The Glimpses of the Moon Edith Wharton · 1922 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate “The Glimpses of the Moon” is a romance story. Nick and Susy are the main characters and have no money. They belong to a society of wealthy people, and they plan to get married to better themselves financially from the wedding with the gifts they will receive.Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook… Shares Married people, Americans, Social life and customs

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