These nine novels are "the best of the best"--great writing by some of the most brilliant literary minds of the 18th and 19th centuries. Samuel Johnson's biography of Richard Savage raises the life of a scoundrel to the level of great art; George Eliot profoundly influenced...
Includes works from Samuel Johnson's Life of Richard Savage to Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer, including fiction by Maria Edgeworth, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Mrs. Gaskell, George Eliot, George Meredith, Thomas Love Peacock, and William Hazlitt.