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Classics for the College-Bound and Beyond: Fiction, 19th Century and Earlier

The titles on our classics list are live links which take you to our catalog; but in many cases the library owns other editions and other translations of these novels and story collections, which will usually be shelved by the author's last name, alongside the editions to which we are linking. You can do a catalog search to find alternative editions.

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Little women Illustrated by Louis Jambor
by: Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
Pride and prejudice
by: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
Sense and sensibility
by: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
Jane Eyre
by: BrontÞe, Charlotte, 1816-1855
Wuthering Heights
by: BrontÞe, Emily, 1818-1848
pilgrims progress
by: Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.
Don Quixote
by: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616
last of the Mohicans
by: Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851
red badge of courage an episode of the American Civil War
by: Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900.
Robinson Crusoe an authoritative text contexts criticism
by: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-731.
Christmas carol
by: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Great expectations
by: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Oliver Twist
by: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
tale of two cities
by: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Alices adventures in Wonderland and Through the looking glass
by: Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898
Crime and punishment
by: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881
adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by: Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930
Count of Monte Cristo
by: Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870
three musketeers
by: Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870
Silas Marner the weaver of Raveloe
by: Eliot, George, 1819-1880.
Madame Bovary patterns of provincial life by Gustave Flaubert translated by Francis Steegmuller
by: Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880.
Tess of the Durbervilles a pure women
by: Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
house of the seven gables An authoritative text backgrounds and sources essays in criticism
by: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
This link takes you to a critical edition, containing the text of the novel and some critical works. The book is shelved 813 Hawthorne. Other editions are shelved in the fiction stacks by the author's last name.
scarlet letter a romance
by: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
hunchback of Notre Dame
by: Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885.
miserables
by: Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885.
turn of the screw An authoritative text backgrounds and sources essays in criticism
by: James, Henry, 1843-1916
This link takes you to a critical edition, containing the text of the novel and some critical works. The book is shelved 813 James. Other editions are shelved in the fiction stacks by the author's last name.
morte dArthur
by: Malory, Thomas, Sir, 15th cent.
Moby Dick or The whale
by: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
complete tales and poems of Edgar Allan Poe
by: Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
Ivanhoe
by: Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832
Frankenstein or The modern Prometheus
by: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
by: Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.
Treasure Island
by: Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.
Dracula
by: Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912
Uncle Toms cabin Life among the lowly Introduction by Raymond Weaver
by: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Gullivers travels
by: Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
Vanity fair a novel without a hero
by: Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Anna Karenina a novel in eight parts
by: Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910.
War and peace
by: Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910.
Fathers and children
by: Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883
annotated Huckleberry Finn Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyers comrade
by: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
adventures of Tom Sawyer
by: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Around the world in eighty days
by: Verne, Jules, 1828-1905.
Jules Vernes Twenty thousand leagues under the sea the definitive unabridged edition based on the original French texts
by: Verne, Jules, 1828-1905.
This link takes you to a critical edition, containing the text of the novel and some critical works. Most copies are shelved 843 Verne V531t. Other editions are shelved in the fiction stacks by the author's last name.
Candide or Optimism a fresh translation backgrounds criticism
by: Voltaire, 1694-1778
This link takes you to a critical edition, containing the text of the novel and some critical works. The book is shelved 843 Voltaire 1991. Other editions are shelved in the fiction stacks by the author's last name.