brzeski brzeski

Favorites

 

View

All

Books

Lists

Authors

The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction

The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction was selected by Charles W. Eliot, LLD (1834-1926), with notes and introductions by William Allan Neilson. It also features an index to Criticisms and Interpretations.


15 books

Jane Austen

(17751817)


14 books

Mark Twain

(18351910)


33 books

Anthony Trollope

(18151882)



6 books

Miguel Cervantes

(15471616)


55 books

Henry James

(18431916)


4 books

W. Somerset Maugham

(18741965)


14 books

Thomas Hardy

(18401928)


6 books

E. M. Forster

(18791970)



13 books

O. Henry

(18621910)


2 books

Emily Brontë

(18181848)


5 books

Charlotte Brontë

(18161855)


69 books

Charles Dickens

(18121870)


54 books

Arthur Conan Doyle

(18591930)



Father Goriot

by Honoré de Balzac

The novel takes place during the Bourbon Restoration, which brought about profound changes in French society; the struggle of individuals to secure upper-class status is ubiquitous in the book. The city of Paris...