Best e-novels of 1899

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Best e-novels of 1899

html by Jorn Barger March 2000 (updated May2002)

In 1899, the UK Daily Telegraph offered its readers "the 100 best novels in the world" for nine guineas. [more info] (less) About half of them were available in March 2000, but two years later another 20 have become available as etexts. (An invaluable resource in getting these sorted by author's birthyear was this giant list. Etexts were tracked via OLB, Gutenberg, and Blackmask. More)

Henry Fielding (1707-1754): Tom Jones; Joseph Andrews

Laurence Sterne (1713-1768): The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Tobias Smollett (1721-1771): Roderick Random; Peregrine Pickle

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): Rob Roy; The Bride of Lammermoor; Old Mortality; Kenilworth; Guy Mannering; Woodstock; The Talisman

Jane Austen (1775-1817): Pride & Prejudice; Sense & Sensibility

J. Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851): The Last of the Mohicans; The Pathfinder; The Prairie

Michael Scott (1789-1835): Tom Cringle's Log; Cruise of the Midge

Captain Marryat (1792-1848): The King's Own; Peter Simple; Jacob Faithful; Midshipman Easy

Samuel Lover (1797-1868): Handy Andy; Rory O'More

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850): Pere Goriot

Alexandre Dumas (1802-70): The Three Musketeers; Twenty Years After; The Count of Monte Cristo

Victor Hugo (1802-85): Les Misérables; Toilers of the Sea; Notre Dame

Lord Lytton (1803-73): Last of the Barons; Night and Morning; Rienzi; The Caxtons

R. S. Surtees (1803-64): Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour

Eugene Sue (1804-57): The Wandering Jew

N. Hawthorne (1804-64):The Scarlet Letter; The House of the Seven Gables

W. H. Ainsworth (1805-82): The Tower of London; Old St Paul's; Windsor Castle

Charles Lever (1806-72): Harry Lorrequer; Charles O'Malley

Henry Cockton (1807-53): Valentine Vox

S. Warren (1807-77): £10,000 a Year

O. W. Holmes (1809-94): Elsie Venner

Mrs Gaskell (1810-1865): Mary Barton

H. B. Stowe (1811-96): Uncle Tom's Cabin

W. M. Thackeray (1811-63): The History of Henry Esmond; The Newcomes; The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon

Charles Dickens (1812-70): Martin Chuzzlewit; Nicholas Nickleby; The Old Curiosity Shop; Dombey and Son; Oliver Twist

Charles Reade (1814-84): It is Never Too Late to Mend; Peg Woffington; Christie Johnstone; Hard Cash

Mrs Henry Wood (1814-87): East Lynne

Anthony Trollope (1815-82): Orley Farm

Charlotte Bronte (1816-55): Jane Eyre; Shirley

Capt Mayne Reid (1818-83): The Headless Horseman

Frank E. Smedley (1818-64): Frank Fairlegh

George Eliot (1819-80): Scenes of Clerical Life

Charles Kingsley (1819-75): Two Years Ago; Alton Locke; Hypatia

E. Wetherell (Susan Bogert Warner 1819-85): The Wide, Wide World

G. J. Whyte-Melville (1821-78): Market Harborough; Inside the Bar

E. Lynn Linton (1822-98): The Atonement of Leam Dundas

James Grant (182287): The Aide de Camp; The Romance of War

Thomas Hughes (1822-96): Tom Brown's Schooldays

Wilkie Collins (1824-89): The Woman in White; The Moonstone

Rolf Boldrewood (Thomas Alexander Browne 1826-1915): Robbery Under Arms

D. M. Mulock (Craik 1826-87): John Halifax, Gentleman

George Lawrence (1827-76): Guy Livingstone

George Meredith (1828-1909): Diana of the Crossways

Count L. Tolstoy (1828-1910): Anna Karenina

Henry Kingsley (1830-76): The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn

Bret Harte (1836-1902): Gabriel Conroy

W. Besant (1836-1901) and J. Rice (1843-82): The Golden Butterfly

M. E. Braddon (1837-1915): Lady Audley's Secret

Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramee 1839-1908): Under Two Flags

H. Sienkiewicz (1846-1916): Quo Vadis

Mrs F. A. Steel (1847-1929): On the Face of the Waters

Mrs H. Ward (1851-1920): Robert Elsmere

Hall Caine (1853-1931): The Deemster

F. Marion Crawford (1854-1909): Mr Isaacs

Olive Schreiner (1855-1920): The Story of an African Farm

Conan Doyle (1859-1930): The Firm of Girdlestone

J. M. Barrie (1860-1937): A Window in Thrums

Anthony Hope (1863-1933): The Prisoner of Zenda

Amelie Rives (1863-1945): Virginia of Virginia

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936): Soldiers Three

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