Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
1813 Classic Literature
Genre
Social Novel
Dickens on the workhouse, Stowe on slavery, Hugo on poverty, Sinclair Lewis on the American town: these novels were written as interventions and read as such. The context notes explain what each one was responding to.
Where to start: Oliver Twist is the most accessible Dickens. Les Misérables is the longest book in the library.
12 books, in order of first publication
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
1859 Classic Literature
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
1861 Classic Literature
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
1862 Classic Literature
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1866 Classic Literature
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
1868 Classic Literature
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
1878 Classic Literature
A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen
1879 Classic Literature
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
1892 Gothic & Horror
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
1899 Classic Literature
Dubliners
James Joyce
1914 Classic Literature
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1925 Classic Literature
Easiest entry points
- A Doll's House · Henrik Ibsen
- Little Women · Louisa May Alcott
- Pride and Prejudice · Jane Austen
- The Great Gatsby · F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman