Some Novels We May Choose: (Western Canon & European Literatures in Translation)
Here are a few titles we’re excited to explore or revisit, drawn from the English, Russian, French, German, Italian, and Spanish traditions:

• Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice (1813), Emma (1815)
• Charles Dickens – Great Expectations (1861), Bleak House (1853)
• Thomas Hardy – Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), Return of the Native (1878)
• Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina (1878), War and Peace (1869)
• Fyodor Dostoevsky – Crime and Punishment (1866), The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
• Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary (1857)
• Victor Hugo – Les Misérables (1862)
• Honoré de Balzac – Père Goriot (1835)
• Alexandre Dumas – The Count of Monte Cristo (1844)
• George Eliot – Middlemarch (1871–72)
• Theodor Fontane – Effi Briest (1895)
• Alessandro Manzoni – The Betrothed (1827/1840)
• Leopoldo Alas “Clarín” – La Regenta (1884–85)
• Ivan Turgenev – Fathers and Sons (1862)

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