https://pithybooks.com/tags/victorian/ Latest Pithy Books summaries tagged “victorian”. en Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:12:10 GMT https://pithybooks.com/books/oliver-twist/ https://pithybooks.com/books/oliver-twist/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT An orphan flees the workhouse for London's thieves, and Dickens indicts a cruel society. https://pithybooks.com/books/alices-adventures-in-wonderland/ https://pithybooks.com/books/alices-adventures-in-wonderland/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Alice follows the White Rabbit, grows and shrinks through tea, croquet and trial. https://pithybooks.com/books/clockwork-prince/ https://pithybooks.com/books/clockwork-prince/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Tessa Gray stays at the London Institute in 1878 as Will hides a curse, Jem weakens, and Mortmain moves his automatons. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A London lawyer traces a violent stranger to his respectable friend in Stevenson's 1886 tale of two selves. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-time-machine/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-time-machine/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Wells sends a Victorian inventor to the year 802,701, where idle Eloi and blind Morlocks share a dark human fate. https://pithybooks.com/books/great-expectations/ https://pithybooks.com/books/great-expectations/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Orphan Pip chases wealth and Estella through London fog and prison ships. https://pithybooks.com/books/clockwork-angel/ https://pithybooks.com/books/clockwork-angel/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Tessa Gray finds Shadowhunters in Victorian London while the Magister hunts her. https://pithybooks.com/books/jane-eyre/ https://pithybooks.com/books/jane-eyre/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre retold: Lowood, Thornfield, the attic secret, and Jane's refusal to shrink.