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Literary Classics

The novels that made the novel.

The central shelf of the Library: 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, and the slow discovery that a life is decided by things too small to notice at the time. Each newly set, in present-day American spelling.

What belongs on this shelf, and what does not

The volumes 1–60 of 170
The catalog
  1. I The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
  2. II Ourika Claire de Duras
  3. III The New Mistress George Manville Fenn
  4. IV Robert Orange John Oliver Hobbes
  5. V O. T. Hans Christian Andersen
  6. VI The Master of Silence Irving Bacheller
  7. VII The Awkward Age Henry James
  8. VIII The Eustace Diamonds Anthony Trollope
  9. IX Indian Summer William Dean Howells
  10. X Brought Home Hesba Stretton
  11. XI The Home and the World Rabindranath Tagore
  12. XII What Maisie Knew Henry James
  13. XIII The Idol of Paris Sarah Bernhardt
  14. XIV The Poorhouse Waif and His Divine Teacher Isabel C. Byrum
  15. XV Across the Years Eleanor H. Porter
  16. XVI In the Quarter Robert W. Chambers
  17. XVII Ideala Sarah Grand
  18. XVIII The Pastor's Son William W. Walter
  19. XIX Stories by English Authors: England Various
  20. XX Many Kingdoms Elizabeth Garver Jordan
  21. XXI The Heart of Rome F. Marion Crawford
  22. XXII Youth Challenges Clarence Budington Kelland
  23. XXIII Doctor Therne H. Rider Haggard
  24. XXIV A Modern Chronicle Winston Churchill
  25. XXV Sant' Ilario F. Marion Crawford
  26. XXVI Absalom's Hair Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
  27. XXVII The Lion and the Mouse Charles Klein and Arthur Hornblow
  28. XXVIII Outpost Jane G. Austin
  29. XXIX Their Silver Wedding Journey William Dean Howells
  30. XXX Uncle William Jennette Lee
  31. XXXI The Good Time Coming T. S. Arthur
  32. XXXII The Home Mission T. S. Arthur
  33. XXXIII The Hand but Not the Heart T. S. Arthur
  34. XXXIV The Iron Rule T. S. Arthur
  35. XXXV The Two Wives T. S. Arthur
  36. XXXVI Sylvia's Lovers Elizabeth Gaskell
  37. XXXVII Barry Lyndon William Makepeace Thackeray
  38. XXXVIII The Amazing Marriage George Meredith
  39. XXXIX One of Our Conquerors George Meredith
  40. XL Watersprings Arthur Christopher Benson
  41. XLI Farina George Meredith
  42. XLII The Adventures of Harry Richmond George Meredith
  43. XLIII Vittoria George Meredith
  44. XLIV The Tides of Barnegat Francis Hopkinson Smith
  45. XLV Sowing Seeds in Danny Nellie L. McClung
  46. XLVI Ruth Elizabeth Gaskell
  47. XLVII Women in Love D. H. Lawrence
  48. XLVIII The Malady of the Century Max Nordau
  49. XLIX Mr. Hogarth's Will Catherine Helen Spence
  50. L A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
  51. LI Marius the Epicurean — Complete Edition Walter Pater
  52. LII Imaginary Portraits Walter Pater
  53. LIII Nature and Art Elizabeth Inchbald
  54. LIV Mr. Crewe's Career Winston Churchill
  55. LV The Hand of Ethelberta Thomas Hardy
  56. LVI Missy Dana Gatlin
  57. LVII Barchester Towers Anthony Trollope
  58. LVIII Children of the Whirlwind Leroy Scott
  59. LIX The Kentons William Dean Howells
  60. LX A Laodicean Thomas Hardy