verbava все записи автора The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction (что можно перевести как «Гарвардская полка классической художественной литературы») – это 20 томов, состоящих из книг, отобранных Чарльзом У. Элиотом (1834-1926), академиком и президентом Гарварда с 1869 года, который превратил небольшой провинциальный колледж в известнейший американский университет.
Умный мужчина плохого не посоветует... =)

Vols. 1 & 2:
• The History of Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding

Vol. 3:
• A Sentimental Journey, by Laurence Sterne;
• Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

Vol. 4:
• Guy Mannering, by Sir Walter Scott

Vol. 5 & 6:
• Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray

Vols. 7 & 8:
• David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens

Vol. 9:
• The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot

Vol. 10:
• The Scarlet Letter & Rappaccini's Daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne;
• Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving;
• Three Short Stories, by Edgar Allan Poe;
• Three Short Stories, by Francis Bret Harte;
• Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog, by Samuel L. Clemens;
• The Man Without a Country, by Edward Everett Hale

Vol. 11:
• The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James

Vol. 12:
• Notre Dame de Paris, by Victor Marie Hugo

Vol. 13:
• Old Goriot, by Honoré de Balzac;
• The Devil's Pool, by George Sand;
• The Story of a White Blackbird, by Alfred de Musset;
• Five Short Stories, by Alphonse Daudet;
• Two Short Stories, by Guy de Maupassant

Vols. 14 & 15:
• Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship & The Sorrows of Werther, by J. W. von Goethe;
• The Banner of the Upright Seven, by Gottfried Keller;
• The Rider on the White Horse, by Theodor Storm;
• Trials and Tribulations, by Theodor Fontane

Vols. 16 & 17:
• Anna Karenina & Ivan the Fool, by Leo Tolstoy

Vol. 18:
• Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Vol. 19:
• A House of Gentlefolk & Fathers and Children, by Ivan Turgenev

Vol. 20:
• Pepita Jimenez, by Juan Valera;
• A Happy Boy, by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson;
• Skipper Worse, by Alexander L. Kielland

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