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the
Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction
Selected in 1917 by Charles
W. Eliot, to supplement the 1910 Harvard
Classics series.
"In the original fifty volumes, for reasons which have turned out
not to be of permanent effect, fiction in the modern sense was only
slightly represented. To-day a supplement of twenty volumes of modern
fiction -- The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction -- provides an
ample representation of that new force in the world which the modern
historical romance, the novel, and the short story exert. With this
supplement, The Harvard Classics may fairly be said to provide a
permanent record in high literary form of the powers of achievements
of 'man thinking' down to the end of the nineteenth century, sufficiently
comprehensive to illustrate well the chief powers and achievements
of the race."
--Charles W. Eliot, in "The Editor's Second Introduction", The
Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction (NY: Collier & Son,
1917).
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice.
Balzac, Honore de. Pere Goriot.
Bjornson, Bjornstjern. A Happy Boy.
Daudet, Alphonse. "The Siege of Berlin";
"The Last Class -- The Story of a Little
Alsatian"; "The Child Spy";
"The Game of Billiards"; "The
Bad Zouave".
Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich. Crime
and Punishment.
Eliot, George. The Mill on the Floss.
Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones.
Fontane, Theodor. Trials and Tribulations;
A Berlin Novel.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Wilhelm Meister's
Apprenticeship; The Sorrows
of Werther.
Hale, Edward Everett. "The Man Without
a Country" .
Harte, Francis Bret. The Luck of Roaring
Camp; The Outcasts of Poker
Flat ; The Idyl of Red Gulch
.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter.
Hugo, Victor Marie. Notre Dame de Paris.
Irving, Washington. Rip Van Winkle;
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow .
James, Henry, Jr.The Portrait of a Lady.
Keller, Gottfried. "The Banner of the Upright
Seven", from The People of Seldwyla
Kielland, Alexander L.. Skipper Worse.
Maupassant, Guy de. "Walter Schnaffs' Adventure";
"Two Friends"; "The
Cripple".
Musset, Alfred de. "The Story of a White
Blackbird" .
Poe, Edgar Allan. Eleonora;
The Fall of the House of Usher;
The Purloined Letter .
Sand, George. The Devil's Pool.
Scott, Sir Walter. Guy Mannering.
Sterne, Laurence. A Sentimental Journey
Through France and Italy.
Storm, Theodor. The Rider on the White
Horse.
Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair.
(part 1)
Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayovich. Anna Karenina.
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich. A House of
Gentlefolk; Fathers and Children.
Twain, Mark. "Jim Smily and His Jumping
Frog" .
Valera y Alcala Galiano, Juan. Pepita Jimenez.
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