The following is the table of contents for the book I’ve been working on for the past year, a user’s guide to the Victorian canon of great books. Its original title was The Victorians for Freshmen but I’ve decided on The Victorians 101 as being less limiting–ideally everyone, not just freshmen, will be able to enjoy my book and learn something from it.
Table of Contents
Introduction Page 4
L’Assommoir Page 6
Barchester Towers Page 10
Barry Lyndon Page 14
Bleak House Page 16
The Charterhouse of Parma Page 21
Coningsby Page 24
The Count of Monte Cristo Page 28
Diana of the Crossways Page 32
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Page 35
Dracula Page 39
East Lynne Page 43
The Egoist Page 47
Emma Page 50
Frankenstein Page 56
The Gothic Page 60
Great Expectations Page 64
Heavenly Twins Page 67
Huckleberry Finn Page 70
The Hunchback of Notre Dame Page 73
The Invisible Man Page 76
Jane Eyre Page 79
Jude the Obscure Page 84
Kidnapped Page 88
Kim Page 91
Lady Audley’s Secret Page 95
The Last Days of Pompeii Page 98
The Last of the Mohicans Page 101
Little Women Page 106
Lorna Doone Page 111
Madame Bovary Page 116
Marius the Epicurean Page 119
Mary Barton Page 122
Middlemarch Page 125
Les Miserables Page 129
Miss Marjoribanks Page 132
Moby Dick Page 135
The Moonstone Page 138
Nana Page 142
New Grub Street Page 146
The New Woman Page 149
North and South Page 152
Pelham Page 155
Père Goriot Page 159
Portrait of a Lady Page 164
The Picture of Dorian Gray Page 168
Pride and Prejudice Page 171
The Red and the Black Page 176
Romanticism Page 179
Salammbô Page 182
The Scarlet Letter Page 185
The Sensation Novel Page 188
She Page 191
Silas Marner Page 195
Sister Carrie Page 197
The Sorrows of Satan Page 200
Tess of the d’Urbervilles Page 204
The Three Musketeers Page 207
The Time Machine Page 209
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Page 212
Under Two Flags Page 216
Vanity Fair Page 220
Waverley Page 224
The Way We Live Now Page 228
The Woman in White Page 231
Wuthering Heights Page 235