I have an assignment to do and I'm having some issues finding some fiction books that date before 1900. Any help or ideas?
2006-07-27 04:34:58 · 12 answers · asked by mybabygoldfish800 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Anything by Jane Austen :-)
2006-07-27 04:36:00 · answer #1 · answered by Hope 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't imagine having difficulty finding books written before 1900 there are literally millions of them, most studied in English literature classes already.
Evelina by Frances Burney
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen (Emma, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, etc.)
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Moll Flanders OR Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Gulliver's Travels by Swift
Mill on the Floss OR Middlemarch OR Silas Marner by George Eliot
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
Vanity Fair by Thackeray
The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne
Little Women, Alcott
Pilgrim's Progress by Bunyan
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas
The Three Musketeers by Dumas
Les Miserables by Hugo
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
Treasure Island
2006-07-27 04:52:30 · answer #2 · answered by laney_po 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first English novel was Robinson Crusoe in 1719. Guillivers Travels was published in 1726. These are two that are well before 1900. Other classics are Moby Dick, War and Peace.
2006-07-27 04:42:00 · answer #3 · answered by Woody 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a project from The Encyclopedia Brittanica called the "Great Books of the Western World" that is pretty comprehensive. One site that indexes these is here: http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/greatbks.html
If you scroll down to the bottom, you can look them up by time period.
This genre is actually called "Classic fiction". B&N actually has a nice page dedicated to this topic at http://www.barnesandnoble.com/classics/index.asp?z=y&cds2Pid=5802&linkid=705193
You can find a number of resources here. If you need more expert advice, try http://www.ipl.org and ask a librarian online. They will give you more info than you ever wanted to know.
2006-07-27 05:10:20 · answer #4 · answered by jjg 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tristan and Isolde, many many many Norse books (The Prose Edda, The Poetic Edda, Gesta Danorum, Ynglingasaga) the Egyptian book the dead (Religious, so maybe not defined as fiction), the tale of Genji, honestly, there are tons of it. Lots of Chinese and Japanese poems as well. And of course, all the accounts about King Arthur.
All these are really old, so if you wanna impress your teacher, these are the ones.
2006-07-27 04:41:07 · answer #5 · answered by loki_the_ferret 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Christmas Carrol
2006-07-27 04:37:09 · answer #6 · answered by LeBlanc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain - 1876
2006-07-27 04:40:06 · answer #7 · answered by dimbulb52 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of Jules Verne's work was fiction and published before his death in 1886. Also try Victor Hugo.
2006-07-27 04:43:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ben Hur
2006-07-27 04:39:09 · answer #9 · answered by Velociraptor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dante's Inferno.
2006-07-27 04:40:44 · answer #10 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Xanth
2006-07-27 04:36:04 · answer #11 · answered by Wicked voodoo dope dark killer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋