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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
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
Dracula
by: Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912
Don Quixote
by: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616
Last of the Mohicans a narrative of 1757
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
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 provincial ways
by: Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880
Tess of the DUrbervilles a pure woman
by: Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
house of the seven gables a romance
by: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
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 poems and stories of Edgar Allan Poe with selections from his critical writings With an introduction and explanatory notes by Arthur Hobson Quinn texts established with bibliographical notes by Edward H ONeil Illustrated by E Mc
by: Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
This collection of stories and poems is shelved by the call number 818
Ivanhoe
by: Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832
Frankenstein
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
annotated Uncle Toms cabin
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 sons
by: Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883
This link takes you to a critical edition, containing the text of the novel and some critical works. The book is shelved 891.73 Turgenev 1989. Other editions are shelved in the fiction stacks by the author's last name, and the title is often translated as "Fathers and Children."
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 80 days
by: Verne, Jules, 1828-1905.
20000 leagues under the sea
by: Verne, Jules, 1828-1905.
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.