1898 C.K. Shorter List of Best 100 Novels

In 1898, an editor named Clement K. Shorter made a list of the 100 best novels (with a limit of one book per author).
Updated September 19, 2022
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Paper Book
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Paper Book
Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and...
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins
Paper Book
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David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
Paper Book
         "        Like so many fond parents I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child," wrote Charles Dickens. "And his name is David Copperfield."         Of all of Dickens's novels, David Copperfield most closely reflects the events of his own life. The story of an abandoned waif who...
Silas Marner
George Eliot
Paper Book
In this heartwarming classic, a gentle linen weaver named Silas Marner is wrongly accused of theft actually committed by his best friend. Silas exiles himself to a rustic village, where he finds spiritual rebirth through his unselfish love of an abandoned child. Includes a new Afterword. Revised...
The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas
Ebook

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