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[stoutfellow]

I just finished reading Jane Eyre.

As far as nineteenth-century English-language literature goes, my experience is a bit spotty. I've read a lot of Dickens and a fair bit of Scott, Eliot, Collins, and Trollope; on this side of the pond, I've read quite a bit of Twain and some Hawthorne and Melville. I haven't read anything by Thackeray or Hardy, nor by Irving or Cooper (although I have Library of America volumes of both of the latter two). Any prose writer I haven't mentioned, you can probably assume I haven't dipped into. (Oh, wait; I've read Wuthering Heights as well.)

Anyone want to make any suggestions?

Actually, I'm debating tackling Les Miserables; I have a three-volume French edition that I bought in Paris in '89. That, however, will require considerable effort, and I may put it off yet again.

Addendum. My memory is going. I've also read a small amount of Kipling, and quite a bit of Austen, not to mention (in various amounts) Lewis Carroll, H. Rider Haggard, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Macdonald, O. Henry, and Robert Louis Stevenson.

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[oilhistorian.livejournal.com]

How could I forget! Kipling. No better sense of the late Victorian Empire than in his works, both fiction and nonfiction.

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

D'oh back atcha; my memory must be going. I have read some Kipling, although, come to think of it, only his works for children - the Jungle Books, "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", the Just-So Stories. I've never read Kim or The Light That Failed. I've got a (woefully incomplete) set of his short stories somewhere around here...