I agree its tough, “Jewish Books” are generally garbage when compared to real english literature.
My best guess for reading that is as kosher as could be is Mark Twain ,Charles Dickens , Ralph Waldo Emerson , Nathaniel Hawthrone (Scarlet Letter?)
Book written in the 19th century generally followed the customs of Elizabethan England, although they might have slight more violence because that was common practice in that time.