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Top 10 Books Set in the Gilded Age |
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The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
The perfect marriage between the wealthy, worldly attorney Newland Archer and the beautiful and docile May Welland is threatened by the arrival from Europe of May's cousin, the fascinating Countess Olenska.
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The Alienist
by Caleb Carr
In 1896 New York, psychologist—or in period terminology, an alienist—Laszlo Kreizler joins forces with journalist John Schuyler Moore to track a vicious serial killer, in a classic historical mystery that is the inspiration for the new TNT series.
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The Husband List
by Janet Evanovich
Pressured by her mother to marry a proper gentleman, Caroline Maxwell reluctantly considers Lord Bremerton while harboring a secret longing for adventure and passion with her brother's world-traveling friend, Jack, whose new money and lack of title render him an unsuitable candidate in her mother's eyes.
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The Gilded Hour
by Sara Donati
Haunted by childhood losses in spite of successful medical careers in 1883 New York City, surgeon Anna Savard and her obstetrician cousin, Sophie, consider taking in a child and helping a desperate woman who would escape a dangerous man.
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A Proper Pursuit
by Lynn N. Austin
In search of her mother, who has been missing from her life since she was nine, Violet Hayes ventures to Chicago during the time of the World's Fair, and as she discovers the missing parts of her family's past, Violet will ultimately discover herself.
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The English Wife
by Lauren Willig
A fairytale marriage between two English aristocrats erupts at a Shakespeare-themed ball where the husband dies and the wife is presumed dead, a scandalous event that prompts an unlikely alliance between the husband's sister and a reporter who is determined to uncover the truth.
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Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
by Steven Millhauser
A young entrepreneur in late-nineteenth-century New York City, Martin Dressler rises from helper in his father's cigar store as an elusive dream and his love for two sisters comes to life in the Grand Cosmo, an extravagant hotel.
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The Fifth Heart
by Dan Simmons
While in America to solve the mystery of the 1885 death of Clover Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James find themselves involved in matters of national importance possibly orchestrated by Moriarty.
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Murder at the Breakers
by Alyssa Maxwell
As the nineteenth century comes to a close, the illustrious Vanderbilt family dominates Newport, Rhode Island, high society. But when murder darkens a glittering affair at the Vanderbilt summer home, reporter Emma Cross learns that sometimes the actions of the cream of society can curdle one's blood.
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The Witches of New York
by Ami McKay
A tale inspired by Manhattan's 19th-century witchcraft revival finds a celebrated teahouse proprietress and a gifted medium teaming up with a dream interpreter in the aftermath of a psychic colleague's disappearance.
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