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The 100 best novels: #26 – The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle (1890)
In the summer of 1889, the managing editor of the American magazine Lippincott's visited London to commission new fiction from some up...
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The 100 best novels: #25 – Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome (1889)
An ancient river. The journey upstream of some impressionable young men into a mysterious, challenging interior. An inevitable reckoning at ...
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The 100 best novels: #24 – Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
In a society shaped by the profound transformations of the 1870 Education Act, Robert Louis Stevenson stands apart from his late-Victorian ...
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The 100 best novels: #23 – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by MarkTwain (1884/5)
Mark Twain began his masterpiece, he said, as "a kind of companion to Tom Sawyer ". Drafted in the 1870s, the first chapters of t...
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The 100 best novels: #22 – The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (1875)
Anthony Trollope is the epitome of the 19th-century English writer, indefatigable, popular and tightly wired-in to his society, a monument ...
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The 100 best novels: #21 – Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871-2)
Middlemarch is one of those books that can exert an almost hypnotic power over its readers. Few other titles in this series will inspire qu...
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The 100 best novels: #20 – Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868-9)
Little Women is probably unique in this series: it was conceived, and commissioned, by a publisher. An instant bestseller, and a coming-of-...
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The 100 best novels: #19 – The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868)
The Moonstone is often said to be the godfather of the classic English detective story, its founding text. TS Eliot, claiming that the genr...
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The 100 best novels: #18 – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by LewisCarroll (1865)
On 4 July 1862, a shy young Oxford mathematics don with a taste for puzzles and whimsy named Charles Dodgson rowed the three daughters of He...
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The 100 best novels: #17 – Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
On 5 August 1850 a party of writers and publishers climbed Monument Mountain in Massachusetts, during the American equivalent of a hike in t...
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The 100 best novels: #16 – The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne(1850)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, describing "a tale of human frailty and sorrow", insisted that The Scarlet Letter was "a Romance",...
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The 100 best novels: #15 – David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1850)
David Copperfield was the first book Sigmund Freud gave his fiancee, Martha Bernays, on their engagement in 1882. It was the gift of a life...
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The 100 best novels: #14 – Vanity Fair by William Thackeray (1848)
Vanity Fair jumps out of this list as a great Victorian novel, written and published deep in the middle of a great age of English fiction ....
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The 100 best novels: #13 – Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)
The above image of Emily Brontë – endlessly reproduced – is less a portrait, more an icon. Intense, fierce, inward, solitary, elusive and u...
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