Best 19th Century Novels

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The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics)
1.  The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics) by Stendhal
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  "The greatest novel ever written (according to Tolstoy)"
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Anna Karenina (Wordsworth Classics)
2.  Anna Karenina (Wordsworth Classics) by L.N. Tolstoy
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  "Way too long but contains everything life has to show us"
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The Idiot (Wordsworth Classics)
3.  The Idiot (Wordsworth Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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  "Prince Myshkin has to be one of the most life-affirming characters in fiction"
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Old Goriot (Pocket Penguin Classics)
4.  Old Goriot (Pocket Penguin Classics) by Honore Balzac
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  "Balzac wrote several other novels as good as this ('Lost Illusions' springs to mind) but a good place to start"
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Sentimental Education (Penguin Classics)
5.  Sentimental Education (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
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  "A portrait of a man and an epoch (Paris in the 1840s)"
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Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Popular Classics)
6.  Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jane Austen
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  "No one ever wrote with more wit aside from Stendhal"
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Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics)
7.  Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics) by Emily Brontë
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  "Could be the greatest female writer ever"
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Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus (Penguin Classics)
8.  Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus (Penguin Classics) by Mary Shelley
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  "Maybe the greatest fable ever written. And only 18 years old..."
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Tess of the D'urbervilles (Penguin Popular Classics)
9.  Tess of the D'urbervilles (Penguin Popular Classics) by Thomas Hardy
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  "Will quite probably make you cry"
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Vanity Fair (Penguin Popular Classics)
10.  Vanity Fair (Penguin Popular Classics) by William Thackeray
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  "The least sentimental novel ever written. And beats anything Dickens wrote by a country mile."
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Les Miserables (Penguin Popular Classics)
11.  Les Miserables (Penguin Popular Classics) by Victor Hugo
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  "Difficult to choose between the Russians, the French and the English but French novelists just pip it"
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Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
12.  Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann
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  "The only German entry - a story of a family in decline"
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Collector's Library Editions)
13.  The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Collector's Library Editions) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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  "Once you get the taste for them you read them again and again"
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Lucien Leuwen (Classics)
14.  Lucien Leuwen (Classics) by Stendhal
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  "Yes I know its cheating having Stendhal here twice but this is my personal favourite"
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