Table of Contents
Introduction 1
L'Assommoir 5
Barchester Towers 9
Barry Lyndon 13
Bleak House 15
The Charterhouse of Parma 21
Coningsby 24
The Count of Monte Cristo 28
Diana of the Crossways 32
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 35
Dracuta 39
East Lynne 43
The Egoist 47
Emma 51
Frankenstein 57
Great Expectations 61
Heavenly Twins 65
Huckleberry Finn 69
The Hunchback of Notre Dame 72
The Invisible Man 75
Jane Eyre 78
Jude the Obscure 84
Kidnapped 89
Kim 92
Lady Audley's Secret 96
The Last Days of Pompeii 100
The Last of the Mohicans 103
Little Women 108
Lorna Doone 114
Madame Bovary 119
Marius the Epicurean 122
Mary Barton 125
Middlemarch 128
Les Misérables 133
Miss Marjoribanks 137
Moby Dick 140
The Moonstone 143
Nana 148
New Grub Street 152
North and South 155
Pelham 159
Père Goriot 163
The Picture of Dorian Gray 168
The Portrait of a Lady 171
Pride and Prejudice 175
The Red and the Black 181
Salammbô 184
The Scarlet Letter 188
She 191
Silas Marner 195
Sister Carrie 198
The Sorrows of Satan 201
Tess of the d'Urbervilles 205
The Three Musketeers 208
The Time Machine 211
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 214
Under Two Flags 218
Vanity Fair 223
Waverley 227
The Way We Live Now 230
The Woman in White 234
Wuthering Heights 238
Appendix: Concepts 245
Index 261