Literary Classics
The novels that made the novel.
This is the central shelf: the novels that taught fiction how to hold a whole society in view and still follow one person through it. Drawing rooms and boarding houses, provincial towns and capital cities, the slow discovery that a life is decided by things too small to notice at the time. Each Aeneas Press edition presents the complete work with spelling and punctuation in present-day American usage, illustrated with credited full-page plates.
The editions
121–175 of 175
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