Written Before 1850

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Booklist Queen's 2023 Reading Challenge - hosted by booklistqueen

Let's go back a bit and read a classic book written before 1850.

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The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce by Michael Newton

The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce
Michael Newton with Fitz-James O'Brien (Contributor), Ambrose Bierce (Contributor), Elizabeth Gaskell (Contributor), Edith Wharton (Contributor), Robert Louis Stevenson (Contributor), Harriet Beecher Stowe (Contributor), Amelia B. Edwards (Contributor), Lafcadio Hearn (Contributor), Mary Elizabeth Braddon (Contributor), Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Contributor), Michael Newton (Contributor), Margaret Oliphant (Contributor), W.W. Jacobs (Contributor), Charles Dickens (Contributor), Henry James (Contributor), Rudyard Kipling (Contributor), M.R. James (Contributor), Mary Hunter Austin (Contributor)

464 pages • paperback • 2010 (editions)

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The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce

Michael Newton with Fitz-James O'Brien (Contributor), Ambrose Bierce (Contributor), Elizabeth Gaskell (Contributor), Edith Wharton (Contributor), Robert Louis Stevenson (Contributor), Harriet Beecher Stowe (Contributor), Amelia B. Edwards (Contributor), Lafcadio Hearn (Contributor), Mary Elizabeth Braddon (Contributor), Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Contributor), Michael Newton (Contributor), Margaret Oliphant (Contributor), W.W. Jacobs (Contributor), Charles Dickens (Contributor), Henry James (Contributor), Rudyard Kipling (Contributor), M.R. James (Contributor), Mary Hunter Austin (Contributor)

464 pages • paperback • 2010

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Othello
William Shakespeare

3 hours • audio • 1603 (editions)

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Othello

William Shakespeare

3 hours • audio • 1603

fiction classics play dark emotional tense medium-paced

The Old Curiosity Shop: A Tale by Charles Dickens

The Old Curiosity Shop: A Tale
Charles Dickens

575 pages • paperback • 1840 (editions)

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The Old Curiosity Shop: A Tale

Charles Dickens

575 pages • paperback • 1840

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The Holy Bible (NIV2011)
Anonymous

1510 pages • paperback • 2011 (editions)

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The Holy Bible (NIV2011)

Anonymous

1510 pages • paperback • 2011

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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë

423 pages • digital • 1847 (editions) user-added

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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

423 pages • digital • 1847 user-added

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The Nose by Nikolai Gogol, Classics, Literary by Nikolai Gogol

The Nose by Nikolai Gogol, Classics, Literary
Nikolai Gogol

42 pages • paperback • 1836 (editions)

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The Nose by Nikolai Gogol, Classics, Literary

Nikolai Gogol

42 pages • paperback • 1836

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Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen with Alfred Mac Adam

246 pages • paperback • 1817 (editions)

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Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen with Alfred Mac Adam

246 pages • paperback • 1817

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Prometheus Bound and Other Plays by Aeschylus

Prometheus Bound and Other Plays
Aeschylus with Philip Vellacott (Translator)

160 pages • paperback • -463 (editions)

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Prometheus Bound and Other Plays

Aeschylus with Philip Vellacott (Translator)

160 pages • paperback • -463

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The Autobiographies #1

Frederick Douglass

158 pages • paperback • 1845 (editions)

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

The Autobiographies #1

Frederick Douglass

158 pages • paperback • 1845

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Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Dangerous Liaisons
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos with Helen Constantine (Translator)

446 pages • paperback • 1782 (editions)

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Dangerous Liaisons

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos with Helen Constantine (Translator)

446 pages • paperback • 1782

fiction classics literary dark slow-paced

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