100 Best Novels of 1899

Introduction

The following books appeared on the list of 100 Best Novels from 1899. Please update this list as each book's copyright clearance is obtained and it is posted to Project Gutenberg.

Unknown status

Charles Kingsley

• Two Years Ago: Two Years Ago, Volume I, Volume II. [complete?]
• Alton Locke: Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography [desired text?]
• Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face

George Meredith

Meredith, George, 1828-1909

• Diana of the Crossways. Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4,Volume 5.

Sir Walter Scott

• Rob Roy, Complete. Volume 1, Volume 2. Rob-Roy (French).
• The Bride of Lammermoor
• Old Mortality, Complete. Volume 1, Volume 2.
• Kenilworth
• Guy Mannering. Guy Mannering — Complete. Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete. Volume 01, Volume 02.
• Woodstock: Woodstock; or, the Cavalier
• The Talisman, Talismani (Finnish).

Not in PG

• Balzac, Honore de, Pére Goriot (French version)
• Henry Cockton, Valentine Vox. Not in DP, June 2010 TIA
• James Grant, The Aide de Camp, The Romance of War. Not in DP, June 2010
• E. Lynn Linton, The Atonement of Leam Dundas' Not in DP, June 2010 TIA
• Samuel Lover, Rory O'More. Not in DP, June 2010 TIA

Copyright Cleared/In Progress

• Victor Hugo, Toilers of the Sea (French version cleared 2 May 2002; English translations cleared 4 Jan 2004, 22 Jun 2003, 9 Mar 2000). English version DONE, see above. Les Travailleurs de la Mer not done?

Posted

Sixty different authors are listed on the 1899 100 Best Novels list. Some don't yet have all of their selected works posted at PG yet; others have multiple versions.

W. H. Ainsworth

1. Old St. Paul's
2. The Tower of London
3. Windsor Castle

Jane Austen

1. Pride & Prejudice; also etext:20686, etext:20687, etext:26301
2. Sense & Sensibility, also Gevoel en verstand (Dutch), etext:21839, etext:22964

Honoré de Balzac

• Pere Goriot: Father Goriot (English)

J. M. Barrie

• A Window in Thrums

W. Besant and J. Rice

• The Golden Butterfly

Rolf Boldrewood

• Robbery Under Arms

M. E. Braddon

1. Lady Audley's Secret

Charlotte Bronte

• Jane Eyre
• Shirley

Hall Caine

• The Deemster

Wilkie Collins

• The Woman in White
• The Moonstone

J. Fenimore Cooper

• The Last of the Mohicans, etext:27681
• The Prairie
• Pathfinder; or, the inland sea

F. Marion Crawford

1. Mr Isaacs

Charles Dickens

1. Martin Chuzzlewit, Audio book
2. Nicholas Nickleby, Audio book
3. The Old Curiosity Shop, Audio book
4. Dombey and Son, Audio book
5. Oliver Twist, Audio book, Oliver Twist (French)

Conan Doyle

• The Firm of Girdlestone

Alexandre Dumas

• The Three Musketeers, Les trois mousquetaires (French)
• Twenty Years After
• The Count of Monte Cristo; Le comte de Monte-Cristo, Tome I (French), Tome II, Tome III, Tome IV.

George Eliot

• Scenes of Clerical Life

Fielding, Henry

• History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
• Joseph Andrews: Vol. I, Vol. II

Mrs Gaskell

(Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865)

• Mary Barton

Bret Harte

• Gabriel Conroy

N. Hawthorne

(Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864)

• The Scarlet Letter, etext:25344.
• The House of the Seven Gables.

O. W. Holmes

(Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894)

• Elsie Venner

Anthony Hope

(Hope, Anthony, 1863-1933)

• The Prisoner of Zenda, Audio book.

Thomas Hughes

(Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896)

• Tom Brown's Schooldays, etext:32224.

Victor Hugo

• Les Misérables (English); Les misérables Tome I Fantine (French), Tome II Cosette, Tome III Marius, Tome IV L'idylle rue Plumet et l'épopée rue Saint-Denis, Tome V Jean Valjean.
• Toilers of the Sea
• Notre-Dame De Paris, Notre-Dame de Paris (French).

Henry Kingsley

(Kingsley, Henry, 1830-1876)

• The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn

Rudyard Kipling

(Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936)

• Soldiers Three, Part 2

George Lawrence

• Guy Livingstone

Charles Lever

• Harry Lorrequer. Also in separate volumes.

Samuel Lover

Lover, Samuel, 1797-1868

• Handy Andy Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes, Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life.

Lord Lytton

• Last of the Barons
• Night and Morning
• Rienzi
• The Caxtons

D. M. Muloch

(Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock, 1826-1887)

• John Halifax, Gentleman

Captain Marryat

• The King's Own.
• Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 posted?; also etext:21577.
• Jacob Faithful.

Ouida

• Under Two Flags

Charles Reade

• It is Never Too Late to Mend
• Peg Woffington and Christie Johnstone
• Hard Cash

Capt Mayne Reid

• The Headless Horseman

Amélie Rives

• Virginia of Virginia

Olive Schreiner

• The Story of an African Farm

Michael Scott

Scott, Michael, 1789-1835

• Cruise of the Midge Vol 1, Vol 2
• Tom Cringle's Log

H. Sienkiewicz

• Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero, Audio book. Also Qvo vadis Kertomus Neron ajoilta (Finnish).

Frank E. Smedley

• Frank Fairlegh

Tobias Smollett

• The Adventures of Roderick Random
• The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle

Mrs. F. A. Steel

• On the Face of the Waters

Laurence Sterne

(Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768)

• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

H. B. Stowe

(Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896)

• Uncle Tom's Cabin. Also several others: De Negerhut (Dutch); Uncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folks' Edition; Pictures and Stories from Uncle Tom's Cabin Uncle Tom's Picture Book.

Eugene Sue

Sue, Eugène, 1804-1857

• The Wandering Jew — Complete. Volume 01, Volume 02, Volume 03, Volume 04, Volume 05, Volume 06, Volume 07, Volume 08, Volume 09, Volume 10, Volume 11.

R. S. Surtees

1. Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour

W. M. Thackeray

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863

1. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Audio book.
2. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, Audio book.
3. The Memoires of Barry Lyndon, Esq., Audio book.

Count L. Tolstoy

Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910

• Anna Karenina, and etext:13214.

Anthony Trollope

Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882

• Orley Farm

Mrs. H. Ward

1. Robert Elsmere

D. C. L. Warren S.

• Ten thousand a-year, Vol. 1
• Ten thousand a-year, Vol. 2
• Ten thousand a-year, Vol. 3

E. Wetherell

• The Wide, Wide World, and etext:28376.

G. J. Whyte-Melville

• Market Harborough and Inside the Bar

Mrs Henry Wood

• East Lynne

Other authors

• Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews – Vol. 1, Vol. 2
• Charles Lever, Charles O'Malley – Vol. 1, Vol. 2
• Sir Walter Scott, Woodstock

External links

• 1899 100 Best Novels