19th Century Books


Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : An Authoritative Text Contexts and Sources Criticism (Norton Critical Edition) Best Price: $8.70 You'll notice pretty quickly when you pick this up that Huck doesn't spell too good and his...	Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father Best Price: $17.00 Thank you to Jim Matteson for reading every scrap the Alcotts left behind and digesting it into...	Heart of Darkness and the Congo Diary (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $4.14 I am not sure how I made it the last 34 years not having read Conrad's Heart of Darkness,...	Dracula (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $10.00 Bram Stocker is still a classic read. It was very scary from time to time.	Great Expectations Best Price: $6.00 The folks at Norton Critical Editions have once again put together an excellent book, with...



The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen (Six Volume Set) Best Price: $84.95 Having read many versions of all of Jane Austens novels over the years, and recognizing some...	The Annotated Wizard of Oz (Centennial Edition) Best Price: $23.74 I'm a big fan of these annotated books, not only for their visual appeal on the bookshelf, but...	Uncle Tom's Cabin (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $10.99 The copy I received of the Norton Critical Edition was missing pages 111-142. Instead, pages...	The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, Second Edition (Yale Nota Bene) Best Price: $8.62 Could this have been titled "The Misreading of 19th Century Female Novelists"? ...	The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $2.31 Oscar Wilde was one of the foremost representatives of Aestheticism, a movement based on the...



The Belly of Paris (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $8.39 Not Zola's best work by a long shot, but mostly a good read. The many pages of description,...	Twenty Years After (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $7.28 The Three Musketeers is one of my favorite books and Twenty Years After is practically just as...	Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.72 Ivanhoe is one of those books I thought I should have read as a child, but hadn't. Finally, at...	Poetry for Young People: Lewis Carroll (Poetry For Young People) Best Price: $3.34 I cannot think of a better way to introduce the poetry of Lewis Carroll than this small volume. ...	Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel Best Price: $4.25 Imagine Bertie Wooster and two of his idiot friends out on a boat... with no Jeeves. That...

Nicholas Nickleby (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $4.50 I grew up listening to this audiobook and I have adored Nickleby ever since. Siberry's narration...	Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $1.78 Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection...	The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $5.99 Combining a sensational story of a man's physical and moral decline through alcohol, a study of...	Dracula (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) Best Price: $8.00 I've been a fan of Dracula since I was 6 years old. The original Stoker novel, the many film...	Daniel Deronda (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.73 Am I the only person who really really really wished that this book had been about Catherine...

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $2.60 How explain literary genius? How pinpoint the DNA which made three Yorkshire girls living in a...	Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $3.37 Persuasion celebrates romantic constancy in an era of turbulent change. Written as the...	Gothic Tales (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.23 A portrait inexplicably turned to the wall ... a mysterious child who lives on the freezing...	Martin Chuzzlewit (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.93 Greed and selfishness abound in this long novel originally brought to the 1843-44 reading public...	The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents; A Romance (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $3.79 This book is a very intelligent and well written book.

Sense and Sensibility (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $3.81 So you want to read Sense and Sensibility. Great choice! Jane Austen's first published novel...	Vincent Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait in Art and Letters Best Price: $19.19 It is a pleasure to see Van Gogh's original handwriting in his letters, accompanied by drawings...	A Tale of Two Cities (New Oxford Illustrated Dickens) Best Price: $17.50 is really a wonderful book, and I enjoyed it immensely. So immensely, in fact, that I...	The Great Short Novels of Henry James Best Price: $59.96	The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $4.60 For those of us of a certain age, not that we lived in the 19th Century, the name Jules Verne...

Treasure Island (Signet Classics) Best Price: $1.17 The timeless adventure From young Jim Hawkins?s first encounter with the sinister Blind Pew...	Lady Audley's Secret (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.24 In Lady Audley's Secret, Sir Michael Audley marries Lucy Graham, a governess. She's a...	The Horns of the Buffalo (Simon Fonthill Series) Best Price: $5.42 While this is not Sharpe and Cornwell it is quite good, well written with good visual images....	The Road to Kandahar (Simon Fonthill Series) Best Price: $5.78 It seems to me that today's historical fiction is geared more to the feminine reader or to those...	Northanger Abbey: A Longman Cultural Edition Best Price: $7.85 Very funny in typical Austin fashion. A must read for any Jane Austin fan. It is a bit difficult...

Persuasion (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) Best Price: $10.15 Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed work before her death. It differs from her other more...	Barchester Towers (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $2.40 In Barchester Towers you have the feeling of being in a command center during a war; everyone is...	Emma (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $4.19 'I wonder what will become of her!' So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse,...	Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of British, American, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867 Best Price: $29.88 TRANSATLANTIC ROMANTICISM is a must-buy for fans of poetry or prose of the Romantic period. ...	Jude the Obscure: An Authoritative Text : Backgrounds and Contexts Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $12.94 Jude Fawley, is an orphan trapped in poverty and a narrow working class paradigm, but in spite...

The Lifted Veil: Brother Jacob (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $3.17 My previous experience of reading George Eliot (admittedly about a decade ago) had been unhappy...	Frankenstein: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio) Best Price: $8.75 i bought this edition of the book simply because i'm a total daniel clowes fanboy. i mean, the...	The Tao of Emerson (Modern Library) Best Price: $14.87 This very nice little hardbound places each verse from the tao te ching on the left, with a...	Bleak House (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) Best Price: $15.08 The Introduction by Bradbury in the Penguin version, which I would suggest not looking at until...	The Fountain Overflows (New York Review Books Classics) Best Price: $2.74 I was introduced to West through her book The Thinking Reed. I liked her obeservations of rich...

Female Quixotism: Exhibited in the Romantic Opinions and Extravagant Adventures of Dorcasina Sheldon (Early American Women Writers) Best Price: $17.68 Published in 1801, Tabitha Tenney's novel, "Female Quixotism" is at times an amusing,...	Tolstoy: A Biography Best Price: $11.30 Have been researching Molokans in Russia. The fascinating story of this eccentric and talented...	Jane Eyre (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) Best Price: $14.15 Jane Eyre / 0-451-52655-4 Unlike many of the classics, which contain a superb message under...	Frankenstein (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) Best Price: $3.45 i read this book right after dracula and well, it's definitely a good read and an edge of your...	The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Volume I: Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park (Modern Library) Best Price: $12.95 This is an EXCELLENT collection of Jane Austen's novels. Yes, when buying it, my brother and I...

Scenes of Clerical Life (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.50 George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) was born in Warwickshire in 1819. Her father was an estate manager...	Oliver Twist (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $10.31 The Twist tale, much like all "classics" is fairly well known. This edition is good...	Emma (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) Best Price: $11.00 Like most of Jane Austen's novels, the theme is around young women and how to obtain marriages...	British Literature: 1780 - 1830 Best Price: $155.79 This new comprehensive, and revisionist anthology of what is traditionally categorized as...	Mansfield Park (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $4.28 At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among...

Sense and Sensibility (Everyman's Library) Best Price: $10.14 Critical reviews of Austen's first book don't rate Sense and Sensibility as her best work. In...

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