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My favorite Classic Reads from 19th Century Literature
Lorna Doone: a Romance of Exmoor (Penguin Classics)Lorna Doone: a Romance of Exmoor (Penguin Classics) by R. D. Blackmore
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Our hero, John Ridd is a simple, albeit wise and honorable farmer who as a young lad meets Lorna Doone of the dreaded, evil outlaw family of higher born Doones, and it's love at first sight
The Scarlet Letter: A Romance (Penguin Classics)The Scarlet Letter: A Romance (Penguin Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic tale of Hester Prynne
A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
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The most unforgettable opening and closing sentences to be found anywhere
The Three Musketeers (Barnes & Noble Classics)The Three Musketeers (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Alexandre Dumas
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Anything by Dumas. Read the entire series, The Musketeers, Twenty Years After, The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Vallierre and The Man In the Iron Mask
Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
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Classic Dickens
Middlemarch (Wordsworth Classics)Middlemarch (Wordsworth Classics) by George Eliot
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Brilliant! Not to be missed
Miss Marjoribanks (Penguin Classics)Miss Marjoribanks (Penguin Classics) by Margaret Oliphant
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Miss Lucilla Marjoribanks comes home from school determined to be a comfort to dear papa and sets the good doctor and the entire town on their ears, with her brilliant manipulations
Bungay Castle: A NovelBungay Castle: A Novel by Elizabeth Bonhote
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OK, it's older than 19th C but great fun. The first teen detectives in a novel?
Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
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Gotta love Bronte. Much better the second time around now that I'm grown up.
The Three Musketeers (Oxford World's Classics)The Three Musketeers (Oxford World's Classics) by Alexandre Dumas (père)
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Anything by Dumas. Read the entire series, The Musketeers, Twenty Years After, The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Vallierre and The Man In the Iron Mask
Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) by Emily Bronte
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The classic dark and brooding tale of Cathy and Heathcliff
Villette (Penguin Classics)Villette (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
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Very different from Jane Eyre, and also semi autobiographical
Selected Works of the Bronte Sisters (Wordsworth Special Editions)Selected Works of the Bronte Sisters (Wordsworth Special Editions) by Charlotte Bronte
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A great way to get your Bronte fix!
The Black Tulip (Oxford World's Classics)The Black Tulip (Oxford World's Classics) by Alexandre Dumas (père)
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Who would have thought that a book, with a simple plot about two rivals trying racing to be the first to grow a black tulip, could be so unputdownable?
Bleak House (Wordsworth Classics)Bleak House (Wordsworth Classics) by Charles Dickens
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A long and complicated tale about a dispute over a will and a family inheritance that destroys most of the litigants, either to madness or death, leaving it all to the bloodsucking attorneys
The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics)The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot
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Eliot is superb as always! I’d give it 10 stars if I could