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There are some novels that are truly classic: tales that over the ages are read by generation after generation. As authors we all hope the fiction we write will join the list of adventures that stirred our own imaginations. Here are just a few of those classic tales.


 Jane Austen

Mansfield Park
Emma
Northanger Abbey
Persuasion
Sense and Sensibility

 

 Edwin A. Abbott

Flatland  

William Patterson Atkinson

The Short Story  

 William Wells Brown

Clotelle, A tale of the Southern States
 

 John Bunyan

The Pilgrims Progress
 

 Frances Hodgson Burnett

The SecretbGarden
Sara Crewe

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights  

 Edgar Rice Burroughs

At the Earths Core
The Lost Continent
The Land that Time Forgot
The Chessmen of Mars
Warlord of Mars
The Gods of Mars
A Princess of Mars
The Outlaw of Torn
The Monster Men
Pellucidar
Out of Times Abyss
The People that Time Forgot
The Beasts of Tarzan
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
Tarzan of the Apes
The Return Of Tarzan
The Jungle Tales of Tarzan
The Son of Tarzan
 

 Willa Sibert Cather

My Antonia
Alexanders Bridge
O Pioneers!  

 Geoffrey Chauser

Canterbury Tales  

Agatha Christie

The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Secret Adversary  

  G. K. Chesterton

The Innocence of Father Brown
The Wisdom of Father Brown  

 Wilkie Collins

The Haunted Hotel  

 Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness
The Secret Sharer  

 Arthur Connan Doyle

The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
The Adventure of The Black Peter
A Study in Scarlet
Hounds of the Baskervilles
The Lost Word
The Poison Belt  

 Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage  

 Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe  

 Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities
David Copperfield
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist
A Christmas Carol  

Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo  

 Theodore Dreiser

Sister Carrie  

 Firdausi

The Epic of Kings - Hero Tales of Ancient Persia  

 Harold Frederic

The Damnation of Theron Ware  

 Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman

Herland  

 H. Ryder Haggard

King Solomon's Mines  

 Thomas Hardy

Far from the Madding Crowd
A Pair of Blue Eyes
Jude the Obscure
The Return of the Native
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
The Mayor of Casterbridge  

 Nathaniel Hawthorne

The House of the Seven Gables
The Scarlet Letter  

 Anthony Hope

The Prisoner of Zenda  

 William Dean Howells

The Rise of Silas Lapham  

Washington Irving

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow  

Jerome K. Jerome

Three Men in a Boat  

Rudyard Kipling

My Own True Ghost Story  

 Henry James

The Europeans
Confidence
Daisy Miller
An International Episode
Roderick Hudson
The Turn of the Screw
The Aspern Papers
The American
 

 D.H.Lawrence

Lady Chatterly's Lover  

H.P. Lovecraft

The Shunned House  

 Jack London

The Call of the Wild
The People of the Abyss
The Iron Heel
The Son of the Wolf  

 George MacDonald

At the Back of the North Wind  

 W. Somerset Maugham

The Moon and Sixpence  

 Herman Melville

Billy Budd
Moby Dick  

 Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne of Avonlea
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of the Island

 

 Sir Thomas More

Utopia  

 Christopher Morley

The Haunted Bookshop  

 William Morris

Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair  

 John Milton

Paradise Regained
Paradise Lost

 

 Frank Norris

McTeague  

 Baroness Orczy

The Scarlet Pimpernel  

 Gene Stratton Porter

A Girl of the Limberlost  

 Saki (H.H.Munro)

Reginald in Russia
Reginald
The Chronicles of Clovis  

 Sax Rhomer

The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu  

 Susanna Haswell Rowson

Charlotte Temple  

 Mary Shelly

Frankenstein  

Jonathon Swift

Gullivers Travels  

 Upton Sinclair

The Jungle  

 Robert Louis Stevenson

New Arabian Nights
Catriona
A Christmas Sermon
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
The Master of Ballantrae
The Black Arrow
The Wrecker
The Wrong Box
Kidnapped
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Treasure Island  

 Bram Stoker

Dracular  

 Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin  

 Henry David Thoreau

Walden Pond,  

 Leo Tolstoy

The Forged Coupon
War and Peace
Anna Karenina  

 Mark Twain

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Life on the Mississippi
A Connecticut Tankee in King Arthgur's
What is Man?
Tom Sawyer, Detective
Tom Sawyer, Abroad  

 Jean Webster

Dear Enemy
Daddy Long Legs  

 H.G.Wells

Dr Moreau
The Country of the Blind and other Stories
The Door in the Wall and other Stories
First Men in the Moon
Food of the Gods and How it came to Earth
When the Sleeper Awakes
Tales of Space and Time
The Invisible Man
The Stolen Bacillus and other Incidents
Twelve Stories and a Dream
The War of the Worlds
The World set Free
The Time Machine
The Invisible Man  

 Edith Wharton

Summer  

 Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

 

 Mary Wollstonecraft

Maria  

 Jules Verne

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Journey to the Interior of the Earth
Around the World in Eighty Days
From the Earth to the Moon
Voyage to the Moon
From the Earth to the Moon
Off on a Comet
The Mysterious Island
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 Voltaire

Candide

 

 

 

 

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