London (England) -- Fiction books

The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

The work is a Victorian‑era blend of science‑fiction and horror, set in a fog‑shrouded London where a lawyer…

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

G. K. Chesterton

The Man Who Was Thursday is a hybrid of fantasy, detective intrigue, and philosophical allegory set against a…

Oliver Twist, Vol. 2 (of 3)

Charles Dickens

The second volume of Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist continues the grim bildungsroman of an orphan boy thrust…

The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s tale is a sprawling historical fiction set in sixteenth‑century London, where the lives of a…

Henrietta Temple: A Love Story

Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Henrietta Temple is a self‑styled autobiographical romance by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, that…

A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas

Charles Dickens

This work is Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas,” a Victorian…

Linnet: A Romance

Grant Allen

Linnet: A Romance unfolds as a light‑hearted travel tale set against the Alpine backdrop of the Tyrol, with a…

The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

The work is a Victorian‑era psychological thriller that blends science‑fiction speculation with gothic…

Bleak House

Charles Dickens

Bleak House is a sprawling Victorian novel that begins amid a relentless rainstorm on the desolate estate of…

The Man in the Brown Suit

Agatha Christie

The novel opens in a glittering theatre where the celebrated dancer Madame Nadina receives a fervent ovation…

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

The novel opens in a bleak, unnamed town where a workhouse, “anciently common to most towns”, cradles the…

The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4

George W. M. Reynolds

The fourth volume of George W. M. Reynolds’s The Mysteries of London continues the sensational, crime‑filled…

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale

Joseph Conrad

The work is a compact political thriller set in turn‑of‑the‑century London, where the seemingly mundane shop…

The Grand Babylon Hôtel

Arnold Bennett

The Grand Babylon Hôtel is a fast‑moving, first‑person mystery set in the world of London’s high‑society…

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway is a psychological portrait of a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a middle‑aged,…

The Twelfth Hour

Ada Leverson

Ada Leverson’s The Twelfth Hour opens in a lavishly described drawing‑room where the young, strikingly…

Aladdin of London; Or, Lodestar

Max Pemberton

Aladdin of London; Or, Lodestar is a sprawling, socially charged novel set in the gritty streets of…

Our Mutual Friend

Charles Dickens

Our Mutual Friend opens on a bleak stretch of the Thames, where a rag‑haired, sun‑burnt man and his teenage…

Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit is a sprawling Victorian novel that intertwines domestic concerns with a…

The nigger of the "Narcissus": A tale of the forecastle

Joseph Conrad

The work is a psychological sea story that places a Black seaman, James Wait, at the heart of a ship’s…

The crime code

William Le Queux

The Crime Code is a first‑person thriller that thrusts the reader into the chaotic world of a well‑to‑do…

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

The work is a Victorian ghost story set against a London Christmas, foregrounding a miserly businessman and…

Angel Pavement

J. B. Priestley

The novel opens on a bustling Thames wharf, where a newly arrived steamship from a Baltic state is greeted by…

Night and Day

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day opens on a muted October Sunday, where the young Katharine Hilbery is busy…