Best 19th century novels

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32 Best 19th century novels

Honoré de Balzac: Illusions perdues
George Borrow: Lavengro
Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights
Samuel Butler: Erewhon
Charles Dickens: Bleak House
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Идиот (The Idiot)
Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie
José Maria de Eça de Queiroz: Os Maias (The Maias)
George Eliot: Middlemarch
Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary (Madame Bovary)
Nikolai Gogol: Мёртвые души (Dead Souls)
Ivan Goncharov: Обломов (Oblomov)
Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
James Hogg: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Joris-Karl Huysmans: À rebours (Against Nature; Against the Grain)
Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady
Mikhail Lermontov: Герой нашего времени (A Hero of Our Time)
Alessandro Manzoni: I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)
Herman Melville: Moby Dick
George Meredith: Beauchamp’s Career
Jan Potocki: Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse (The Saragossa Manuscript)
Bolesław Prus: Lalka (The Doll)
Stendhal: Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black)
Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
William Thackeray: Vanity Fair
Leo Tolstoy: Анна Каренина (Anna Karenina )
Anthony Trollope: Palliser series
Ivan Turgenev: Отцы и дети (Fathers and Sons)
Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray