Antique 1917 The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction - 19 volumes (of 20) collection of Classics. Uncommon.
The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction complements the original Harvard Classics set to complete a well rounded education. The collection in 20 volumes was first published in 1917. "This collection contains modern novels, romances, and short stories, the oldest of which appeared in 1749, but most belong to the nineteenth century. The twenty volumes represent seven different national literatures, namely: English, American, French, Spanish, German, Russian, and Scandinavian. More than half the set, eleven volumes, is devoted to English and American fiction, French having two volumes, German two, Russian four, and Spanish and Scandinavian sharing one volume."
The following volumes are offered here:
1 & 2: The History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
3: A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne / Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
5 & 6: Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
7 & 8: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
9: The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
10: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne / Rappaccini’s Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne / Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving / The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving / Three Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe / Three Short Stories by Francis Bret Harte / Jim Smily and His Jumping Frog by Samuel L. Clemens / The Man without a Country by Edward Everett Hale
11: The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
12: Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Marie Hugo
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
14: Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship by J. W. von Goethe
15: The Sorrows of Werther by J. W. von Goethe / The Banner of the Upright Seven by Gottfried Keller / The Rider on the White Horse by Theodor Storm / Trials and Tribulations by Theodor Fontane
16 & 17: Anna Karenin by Leo Tolstoy
17: Ivan the Fool by Leo Tolstoy
18: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
19 by A House of Gentlefolk by Ivan Turgenev
19 by Fathers and Children by Ivan Turgenev
20: Pepita Jimenez by Juan Valera / A Happy Boy by Björnstjerne Björnson / Skipper Worse by Alexander L. Kielland
Only missing the volume 4 (Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott) to complete the set.
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Price $50 for all (that's less than $2.65 per book).
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