Bookphilia.com: About the Le Guin book

Gifts got better - significantly better - as it went along. I still wouldn't say it's a classic though.

Victorian Literature Project

1. Charles Dickens (1812-70): The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
2. Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit (1844)
3. Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865): Mary Barton (1848)
4. W.M. Thackeray (1811-63): Vanity Fair (1848)
5. Dickens: Dombey and Son (1848)
6. Thackeray: The History of Henry Esmond (1852)
7. Charlotte Bronte (1816-55): Villette (1853)
8. Dickens: Bleak House (1853)
9. Gaskell: North and South (1855)
10. Anthony Trollope (1815-82): The Warden (1855)
11. Robert Browning (1812-89): Men and Women (1855)
12. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61): Aurora Leigh (1856)
13. Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-92): Idylls of the King (1859)
14. Ellen Wood (1814-87): East Lynne (1861)
15. Christina Rosetti (1830-94): Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862)
16. Wilkie Collins (1824-89): No Name (1862)
17. Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837-1915): Aurora Floyd (1863)
18. Charles Kingsley (1819-75): The Water Babies (1863)
19. Sheridan le Fanu (1814-73): Uncle Silas (1864)
20. Gaskell: Wives and Daughter (1865)
21. Collins: Armadale (1866)
22. Margaret Oliphant (1828-97): Miss Marjoribanks (1866)
23. Trollope: The Claverings (1867)
24. Matthew Arnold (1822-88): The Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (random placement)
25. Browning: The Ring and the Book (1869)
26. le Fanu: The Wyvern Mystery (1869)
27. Trollope: He Knew He Was Right (1869)
28. George Eliot (1819-80): Middlemarch (1872)
29. le Fanu: In a Glass Darkly (1872)
30. Samuel Butler (1835-1902): Erewhon (1872)
31. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928): A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873)
32. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89): The Major Works (random placement)
33. Trollope: Phineas Redux (1874)
34. Collins: The Law and the Lady (1875)
35. Trollope: The Way We Live Now (1875)
36. Eliot: Daniel Deronda (1876)
37. Trollope: The Prime Minister (1876)
38. Hardy: The Return of the Native (1878)
39. Eliot: Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1879)
40. George Meredith (1828-1909): The Egoist (1879)
41. Trollope: The Duke’s Children (1880)
42. Charles Algernon Swinburne (1837-1909): A Century of Roundels (1883)
43. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94): Kidnapped (1886)
44. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930): A Study in Scarlet (1887)
45. Stevenson: The Master of Ballantrae (1889)
46. George Gissing (1857-1903): New Grub Street (1891)
47. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900): The Decay of Lying and Other Essays (1891)
48. Gissing: The Odd Women (1893)
49. George du Maurier (1834-96): Trilby (1894)
50. Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

Sunday, 6 May 2007

About the Le Guin book

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