An Outline of the English Novel: The Short List
The Gothic Novel list will supplement this one.
Thomas Deloney (? 1560-1600 ), Jack of Newberie ( 1597 ).
Thomas Nashe ( 1567-1601 ), Jack Wilton ( 1594 ).
John Bunyan (1628-1688 ). Pilgrim's Progress ( 1678 ).
Aphra Behn ( 1640-1689 ). Oroonoko ( 1678 ).
Jonathan Swift ( 1667-1745 ). Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ).
Daniel Defoe ( 1660-1731 ). Moll Flanders ( 1722 ).
Samuel Richardson ( 1689-1761), Clarissa ( 1748-9 ).
Henry Fielding ( 1707-1754 ).
Samuel Johnson ( 1709-1784 ). Rasselas ( 1759 ).
Laurence Sterne ( 1713-1768 ) Tristram Shandy ( 1759-67 ).
Tobias Smollett ( 1721-1771 ), Humphrey Clinker ( 1771 ).
Oliver Goldsmith ( 1730-1774 ). The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ).
Fanny Burney ( 1752-1840 ), Evelina ( 1778 ).
Sir Walter Scott ( 1771-1832 ).
- The Heart of Midlothian ( 1818 ).
- Old Mortality ( 1816 ).
Jane Austen ( 1775-1817 ).
- Pride and Prejudice ( 1813 ).
- Emma ( 1816 ).
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), Coningsby (1844).
Elizabeth Gaskell ( 1810-1865 ), Cranford ( 1851-3 ).
Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901), The Heir of Redclyffe (1853)
Charles Dickens ( 1812-1870 ).
- Oliver Twist ( 1837-8 ).
- Great Expectations ( 1861 ).
William Makepeace Thackeray ( 1811-1863 ), Vanity Fair ( 1847-8 ).
Anthony Trollope ( 1815-1882 ), The Warden ( 1855 ).
Charlotte Brontë ( 1816-1855 ), Jane Eyre ( 1847 ).
Emily Brontë ( 1818-1848 ), Wuthering Heights ( 1847 ).
George Meredith ( 1828-1909 ), The Egoist ( 1879 ).
George Eliot ( 1819-1880 )
- Adam Bede ( 1859 ).
- Middlemarch ( 1871-2 ).
* Samuel Butler ( 1835-1902 ).
Thomas Hardy ( 1840-1928 ).
- The Mayor of Casterbridge ( 1886 ).
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles ( 1891 ).
Joseph Conrad ( 1857-1924 ), Lord Jim ( 1900 ).
John Galsworthy ( 1867-1933 ), The Forsyte Saga (1922).
*E. M. Forester (1879-1970).
- Howard's End (1910)
- A Passage to India (1924)
Virginia Woolf ( 1882-1941 ).
- Mrs Dalloway ( 1925 ).
- To the Lighthouse ( 1927 ).
James Joyce ( 1882-1941 ).
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ( 1914-15 ).
- Ulysses ( 1922 ).
D.H. Lawrence ( 1885-1930 ), Sons and Lovers ( 1913 ).
*George Orwell (1903-1950), 1984 (1948).
*Evelyn Waugh(1903-1966), Brideshead Revisited (1945).
*Graham Greene (1904-1991), The Power and the Glory (1940).
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Last Updated 07/29/05
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