The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction (Volumes 1-10)
Explore *The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction (Volumes 1-10)*—a timeless collection of classic literature. Discover masterpieces from world-renowned authors in this essential set for fiction lovers and literary enthusiasts.
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Tom Jones
by Henry Fielding
Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. It is certainly the funniest. Tom Jones, the hero of …
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A Sentimental Journey
by Laurence Sterne
“Funny, human, highly learned and literary, sexy, and filled with psychological nuances that remain unrivaled at the hands of any other psychological writer.” —André Aciman …
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Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession …
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Guy Mannering
by Sir Walter Scott
Guy Mannering is an astrologer who only half-believes in his art. Instead he places his faith in patriarchal power, wealth and social position. But the …
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Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
A classic, set during the Napoleonic wars, giving a satiricl picture of a worldly society and revolving around the exploits of two women from very …
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David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
Hugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens's own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, …
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The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot
This novel, based on George Eliot's own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy …
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Rappaccini's Daughter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Part fairy tale, part Gothic horror story, Rappaccini’s Daughter is an inspired tale of creation and control. It is published here with two additional short …
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle
by Washington Irving
In the first of these stories from the Catskill Mountains, a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman; in the second, a man sleeps for twenty …
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Bret Harte's Gold Rush
by Bret Harte
These fifteen stories bring the California Gold Rush to life with their boisterous assemblage of rough-clad miners, pistol-packing preachers, iron-willed women, and philosophical gamblers. Theirs …
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The Man Without a Country
by Edward Everett Hale
First published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1863 and written to inspire patriotism and combat Northern sympathy with the Confederacy during the Civil War, this …