Daily Telegraph's 100 Best Novels, 1899

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The 100 Best Novels in the World, as selected by the editor of the Daily Telegraph, with the assistance of a few consultants, in 1899.
Work
Old Saint Paul's (1841) by William Harrison Ainsworth
The Tower of London (1840) by William Harrison Ainsworth
Windsor Castle (1842) by William Harrison Ainsworth
Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility (1811) by Jane Austen
Old Goriot (1835) by Honoré de Balzac
A Window in Thrums (1889) by J. M. Barrie
The Golden Butterfly (1876) by Sir Walter Besant
Robbery Under Arms (1888) by Rolf Boldrewood
Lady Audley's Secret (1862) by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Shirley (1849) by Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë
The Caxtons (1883) by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
The Last of the Barons (1843) by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
Night and Morning (1845) by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes (1835) by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
The Deemster (1900) by Hall Caine
The Life And Adventures Of Valentine Vox (1840) by Henry Cockton
The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White (1859) by Wilkie Collins
The Pathfinder; or, The Inland Sea (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper
The Prairie (1827) by James Fenimore Cooper
John Halifax, Gentleman (1856) by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Mr. Isaacs: A Tale of Modern India (1882) by F. Marion Crawford
Dombey and Son (1846) by Charles Dickens
Martin Chuzzlewit (1843) by Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby (1836) by Charles Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop (1972) by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist (1837) by Charles Dickens
The Firm of Girdlestone (1890) by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Count of Monte Cristo (1844) by Alexandre Dumas
Twenty Years After (1845) by Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers (1844) by Alexandre Dumas père
Scenes of Clerical Life (1858) by George Eliot
Joseph Andrews (1742) by Henry Fielding
Tom Jones (1749) by Henry Fielding
Mary Barton (1848) by Elizabeth Gaskell
Adventures of An Aide-De-Camp (2010) by James Grant
The Romance of War, or the Highlanders in Spain, France, and Belgium (1845) by James Grant
Gabriel Conroy (1970) by Bret Harte
The House of the Seven Gables (1851) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Elsie Venner A Romance of Destiny (1883) by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) by Anthony Hope
Tom Brown's School Days (1857) by Thomas Hughes
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1910) by Victor Hugo
Les Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo
The Toilers of the Sea (1866) by Victor Hugo
Alton Locke (1856) by Charles Kingsley
Hypatia (1853) by Charles Kingsley
Two Years Ago (1857) by Charles Kingsley
The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn (1894) by Henry Kingsley
Soldiers Three (1895) by Rudyard Kipling
Guy Livingstone or "Thorough" (2007) by George A. Lawrence
Harry Lorrequer (1839) by Charles James Lever
Charles O'Malley (1841) by Charles James Lever
Handy Andy (1842) by Samuel Lover
Rory O'More (1837) by Samuel Lover
The atonement of Leam Dundas: a novel by Eliza Lynn
Jacob Faithful (1834) by Frederick Marryat
The King's Own (1856) by Frederick Marryat
Mr Midshipman Easy (1836) by Frederick Marryat
Peter Simple (1834) by Frederick Marryat
Diana of the Crossways (1885) by George Meredith
Under Two Flags: A Story of the Household and the Desert (1867) by Ouida
Hard Cash (1863) by Charles Reade
It Is Never Too Late to Mend (1856) by Charles Reade
Peg Woffington and Christie Johnstone (2012) by Charles Reade
The Headless Horseman (1869) by Thomas Mayne Reid
Virginia of Virginia : a story by Amelie Rives
The Story of an African Farm (1883) by Olive Schreiner
The cruise of the Midge (1894) by Michael Scott
Tom Cringle's Log (1833) by Michael Scott
The Bride of Lammermoor (1819) by Sir Walter Scott
Guy Mannering (1815) by Sir Walter Scott
Kenilworth (1821) by Sir Walter Scott
Old Mortality (1816) by Sir Walter Scott
Rob Roy (1817) by Sir Walter Scott
The Talisman (1825) by Sir Walter Scott
Woodstock (1826) by Sir Walter Scott
Quo Vadis (1895) by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Frank Fairlegh, or, Scenes from the life of a private pupil (1910) by Frank E Smedley
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle {complete} (1751) by Tobias Smollett
Roderick Random (1748) by Tobias Smollett
On the face of the waters (1897) by Flora Annie Webster Steel
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759) by Laurence Sterne
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1964) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Wandering Jew (1844) by Eugène Sue
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour (1853) by Robert Smith Surtees
Barry Lyndon (1844) by William Makepeace Thackeray
The History of Henry Esmond (1852) by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Newcomes (1855) by William Makepeace Thackeray
Anna Karenina (1875) by Leo Tolstoy
Orley Farm (1861) by Anthony Trollope
Robert Elsmere (1888) by Mrs. Humphry Ward
The Wide, Wide World (1850) by Susan Warner
Ten Thousand A Year (1840) by Samuel Warren
Market Harborough (1984) by G. J. Whyte-Melville
East Lynne (1861) by Ellen Wood

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