Sit back and relax with a Victorian tale of... Well, see below for a host of options! You'll find some genuine classics here. (Please see our "Just for Kids" section for a selection of Victorian children's stories.)

Sherlock Holmes

No collection of Victorian fiction would be complete without a nod to the most famous Victorian detective of them all! So here are the first six Sherlock Holmes stories published by The Strand -- exactly as they were published!

The Strand - 1891

A Scandal in Bohemia

The Red-Headed League

A Case of Identity

The Boscombe Valley Mystery

The Five Orange Pips

The Man with the Twisted Lip

More Great Tales from the Very First Strand Magazine

The Strand - 1891

The Architect's Wife

From the Spanish of Antonio Trueba.

The Bundle of Letters

From the Hungarian of Moritz Jokal - a nice bit of suspense!

Jerry Stokes, by Grant Allen

A legal drama set in Ontario.

Making an Angel, by J. Harwood Panting

But was it a dream?

The Notorious Miss Anstruther, by E.W. Hornung

A tale from the creator of "Raffles."

Otto's Folly

From the German of P.K. Rosseger.

A Passion in the Desert, by Balzac

I remember this tale from a book I read as a child titled Big Cats, so imagine my delight to rediscover it here!

The Pioneer's Trunk, by Bret Harte

The Pistol Shot, by Alexander Pushkin

The Postmistress of Laurel Run, by Bret Harte

The Queen of Spades, by Alexander Pushkin

This was one of those tales we got force-fed in high school, but that was actually enjoyable!

A Thing that Glistened, by Frank Stockton

The Voice of Science

Poetry

Girls' Own Paper - 1886-1887

Some of the Poetry We Read, by Gleeson White

"A few notes on the modern use of the old French metrical forms."

Girls' Own Paper - 1888-1889

Poets Over-Seas, by Gleeson White

An interesting look at American poetry (from the British perspective).