Harvard Classics: The Complete Fiction

by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy

SELECTED EXTRACT FROM THE TABLE OF CONTENTS

- The Complete Sonnets and Major Poems By William Shakespeare
- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling By Henry Fielding
- A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy By Laurence Sterne
- Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
- Guy Mannering By Sir Walter Scott
- Vanity Fair By William Makepeace Thackeray
- David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
- The Mill on the Floss By George Eliot
- The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Rip Van Winkle By Washington Irving
- Eleonora, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Purloined Letter By Edgar Allan Poe
- The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, The Idyl of Red Gulch By Francis Bret Harte
- Jim Smily and His Jumping Frog By Mark Twain
- The Man without a Country By Edward Everett Hale
- Portrait of a Lady By Henry James
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame By Victor Marie Hugo
- Old Goriot By Honore de Balzac
- The Devil's Pool By George Sand
- The Story of a White Blackbird By Alfred de Musset
- Two Friends By Guy de Maupassant
- Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship By J. W. von Goethe
- The Banner of the Upright Seven By Gottfried Keller
- The Rider on the White Horse By Theodor Storm
- Trials and Tribulations By Theodor Fontane
- Anna Karenina By Leo Tolstoy
- Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Fathers and Sons By Ivan Turgenev
- Pepita Jimenez By Juan Valera
- A Happy Boy By Bjornstjerne Bjornson
- Skipper Worse By Alexander L. Kielland

and hundreds of pages of more works of outstanding literature!

Genres: Classics, Fiction, Classic Literature

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First published April 8, 2011

About the author

Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage for the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works are an implicit critique of the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. Her deft use of social commentary, realism and biting irony have earned her acclaim among critics and scholars.

The anonymously published Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1816), were a modest success but brought her little fame in her lifetime. She wrote two other novels—Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1817—and began another, eventually titled Sanditon, but died before its completion. She also left behind three volumes of juvenile writings in manuscript, the short epistolary novel Lady Susan, and the unfinished novel The Watsons.
Since her death Austen's novels have rarely been out of print. A significant transition in her reputation occurred in 1833, when they were republished in Richard Bentley's Standard Novels series (illustrated by Ferdinand Pickering and sold as a set). They gradually gained wide acclaim and popular readership. In 1869, fifty-two years after her death, her nephew's publication of A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced a compelling version of her writing career and supposedly uneventful life to an eager audience. Her work has inspired a large number of critical essays and has been included in many literary anthologies. Her novels have also inspired many films, including 1940's Pride and Prejudice, 1995's Sense and Sensibility and 2016's Love & Friendship.

Reviews

[Melissa]

200 books added with one click. Yes, I have the Harvard Classics 5 foot book shelf, and they are crying out to be read!

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good collection to keep handy when looking for an interesting read. I like to mix classics and relatively new fiction.

[Eva Hambruch · Rating 1 out of 5]

What a waste!

This volume lacks an index. The TOC is only for Tom Jones. There is no list of authors or works. Useless!

[Anna Campbell]

Excellent!! The twists were not what I expected. Highly recommend this book.