1898 C.K. Shorter List of Best 100 Novels

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The Vale of Cedars: A Story of Spain in the Fifteenth Century (1850) by Grace Aguilar
Old Saint Paul's (1841) by William Harrison Ainsworth
Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen
Old Goriot (1835) by Honoré de Balzac
Vathek (1786) by William Beckford
Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë
The Last of the Barons (1843) by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
The holy war, made by Shaddai upon Diabolus, for the regaining of the metropolis of the world; or, The losing and taking again of the town of Mansoul (1682) by John Bunyan
Evelina (1778) by Frances Burney
Fardorougha The Miser (1839) by William Carleton
Don Quixote (1605) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family (1862) by Elizabeth Rundle Charles
The Life And Adventures Of Valentine Vox (1840) by Henry Cockton
Sweet Anne Page (1868) by Mortimer Collins
The Woman in White (1859) by Wilkie Collins
The Last of the Mohicans (1826) by James Fenimore Cooper
John Halifax, Gentleman (1856) by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Adventures Of Susan Hopley; or, Circumstantial Evidence (1841) by Catherine Crowe
The Lamplighter (1854) by Maria S. Cummins
Fromont and Risler (1874) by Alphonse Daudet
Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe
David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens
Sybil, or The Two Nations (1845) by Benjamin Disraeli
Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Three Musketeers (1844) by Alexandre Dumas
The Absentee (1812) by Maria Edgeworth
Barbara's History (2000) by Amelia B. Edwards
Silas Marner (1861) by George Eliot
Marriage (1818) by Susan Ferrier
Tom Jones (1749) by Henry Fielding
Salammbô (1862) by Gustave Flaubert
Debit and Credit (1893) by Gustav Freytag
The Ayrshire Legatees (1821) by John Galt
Ruth (1853) by Elizabeth Gaskell
Caleb Williams (1794) by William Godwin
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) by Oliver Goldsmith
The Romance of War, or the Highlanders in Spain, France, and Belgium (1845) by James Grant
The Collegians (1829) by Gerald Griffin
Marmorne. The story is told by Adolphus Segrave, the youngest of three brothers. [By P. G. Hamerton.] (1878) by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Lichtenstein (1826) by Wilhelm Hauff
The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Elsie Venner A Romance of Destiny (1883) by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Jack Brag (1837) by Theodore Edward Hook
Tom Brown's School Days (1857) by Thomas Hughes
Les Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo
Bracebridge Hall (1822) by Washington Irving
Richelieu: A Tale of France (1829) by G. P. R. James
Rasselas (1759) by Samuel Johnson
Nathalie: A Tale (1850) by Julia Kavanagh
Westward Ho! (1855) by Charles Kingsley
Ravenshoe (1895) by Henry Kingsley
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh (1864) by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Gil Blas (1715) by Alain René Le Sage
Charles O'Malley (1841) by Charles James Lever
Reuben Sachs (1889) by Amy Levy
Valerius: A Roman Story (1821) by J. G. Lockhart
Rory O'More (1837) by Samuel Lover
Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary (1927) by Anne Manning
The Betrothed (1827) by Alessandro Manzoni
Mr Midshipman Easy (1836) by Frederick Marryat
Emilia Wyndham (1846) by Anne Marsh-Caldwell
The Life Of Mansie Wauch, Tailor In Dalkeith (1828) by David Macbeth Moir
The Epicurean (1827) by Thomas Moore
The Wild Irish Girl (1806) by Lady Morgan
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan (1824) by James Morier
News from Nowhere (1890) by William Morris
Lost and Saved (1863) by Caroline Norton
Salem Chapel (1863) by Margaret Oliphant
Headlong Hall (1815) by Thomas Love Peacock
The Scottish Chiefs (1809) by Jane Porter
The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) by Ann Radcliffe
The Cloister and the Hearth (1861) by Charles Reade
The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story (1777) by Clara Reeve
Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady (1747) by Samuel Richardson
Doctor Antonio (1857) by Giovanni Ruffini
Consuelo (1842) by George Sand
Ekkehard (1857) by Joseph Victor Scheffel
Tom Cringle's Log (1833) by Michael Scott
Kenilworth (1821) by Sir Walter Scott
Amy Herbert (1844) by Elizabeth Missing Sewell
Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Frank Fairlegh, or, Scenes from the life of a private pupil (1910) by Frank E Smedley
The Adventures of Mr Ledbury & his Friend Jack Johnson (1842) by Albert Smith
Roderick Random (1748) by Tobias Smollett
Corinne, or Italy (1807) by Madame de Staël
The Master of Ballantrae (1888) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1964) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Wandering Jew (1844) by Eugène Sue
Gulliver's Travels (1727) by Jonathan Swift
Vanity Fair (1848) by William Makepeace Thackeray
Barchester Towers (1857) by Anthony Trollope
Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev
Candide (1759) by Voltaire
The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole
The Wide, Wide World (1850) by Susan Warner
Ten Thousand A Year (1840) by Samuel Warren
Black But Comely: or the Adventures of Jane Lee by G. J. Whyte-Melville
The Channings (1862) by Mrs. Henry Wood

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