Shannon's "Best Pre-20th Century Literature"

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These works are among what I (and some others) consider to be the best in literature published before 1900. I have given these works 4 or 5 stars.

  1. 1.
    Emma (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  2. 2.
    Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  3. 3.
    Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  4. 4.
    Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
    by William Blake

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  5. 5.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

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  6. 6.
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    by Lewis Carroll

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  7. 7.
    Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There
    by Lewis Carroll

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  8. 8.
    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems
    by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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  9. 9.
    Emily Dickinson: Poems
    by Emily Dickinson

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  10. 10.
    ?
    Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales
    by The Brothers Grimm

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  11. 11.
    The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  12. 12.
    The Odyssey
    by Homer

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  13. 14.
    Doctor Faustus
    by Christopher Marlowe

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  14. 15.
    Bartleby The Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street
    by Herman Melville

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  15. 16.
    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
    by Herman Melville

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  16. 17.
    The Republic of Plato
    by Plato

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  17. 18.
    ?

  18. 19.
    The Riverside Shakespeare (2 vol)

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  19. 20.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

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  20. 21.
    Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  21. 22.
    Dracula (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
    by Bram Stoker

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  22. 23.
    Gulliver's Travels
    by Jonathan Swift

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  23. 25.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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  24. 26.
    Leaves of Grass (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Walt Whitman

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  25. 28.
    The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
    by William Butler Yeats

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Created by Shannon on Aug 07, 2009.
 

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