10 Mar
The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction (20 Volumes, P. F. Collier & Son, 1917)
The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction was selected by Charles W. Eliot, LLD (1834-1926), with notes and introductions by William Allan Neilson. It also features an index to Criticisms and Interpretations. Very Good Condition.
Vols. 1 & 2: The History of Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding
Vol. 3: A Sentimental Journey, by Laurence Sterne; Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Vol. 4: Guy Mannering, by Sir Walter Scott
Vol. 5 & 6: Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray
Vols. 7 & 8: David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
Vol. 9: The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot
Vol. 10: The Scarlet Letter & Rappaccini’s Daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, byWashington Irving; Three Short Stories, by Edgar Allan Poe; Three Short Stories, by Francis Bret Harte; Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog, by Samuel L. Clemens; The Man Without a Country, by Edward Everett Hale
Vol. 11: The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
Vol. 12: Notre Dame de Paris, by Victor Marie Hugo
Vol. 13: Old Goriot, by Honoré de Balzac; The Devil’s Pool, by George Sand; The Story of a White Blackbird, by Alfred de Musset; Five Short Stories, by Alphonse Daudet; Two Short Stories, by Guy de Maupassant
Vols. 14 & 15: Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship & The Sorrows of Werther, by J. W. von Goethe; The Banner of the Upright Seven, byGottfried Keller; The Rider on the White Horse, by Theodor Storm; Trials and Tribulations, by Theodor Fontane
Vols. 16 & 17: Anna Karenina & Ivan the Fool, by Leo Tolstoy
Vol. 18: Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Vol. 19: A House of Gentlefolk & Fathers and Children, by Ivan Turgenev
Vol. 20: Pepita Jimenez, by Juan Valera; A Happy Boy, by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson; Skipper Worse, by Alexander L. Kielland
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