19th Century Novels? Take Your Pick!

The nineteenth century, when novels ruled the land, and were barely able to walk the earth under their own weight! Our panel will pick from among them — the best, the worst, and the weirdest of the lot — or, let's say, the novels most worth picking.

PANELISTS

Jared Pechacek from By-The-Bywater
Beth Martin from It’s Just A Show
Emily Blackmore, a librarian in charge of buying books
Lesley Curtis, scholar and translator of Emeric Bergeaud's 19th c. novel Stella
Michael Collins, from Dear Reader
Emily Gushue Whalen, from Dear Reader
and your host, Chris Piuma

THEIR PICKS

0:00 Introductions

2:48 Jane Austen: Mansfield Park
7:25 Joris-Karl Huysmans: Against Nature
11:42 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla
15:44 Fanny Reybaud: Les Épaves
20:34 George Eliot: Middlemarch
26:04 Elizabeth Gaskell: Cranford
29:19 Mary Shelley: The Last Man
33:53 H. Rider Haggard: She
39:05 Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
44:56 Honore de Balzac: Père Goriot
49:45 Anne Brontë: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
54:51 Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility
59:29 Herman Melville: Moby-Dick
1:02:04 H.G. Wells: The Time Machine
1:06:06 Louisa May Alcott: Little Women
1:09:25 Émile Zola: Thérèse Raquin
1:12:41 Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White
1:15:40 Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace

1:18:25 A few thoughts
1:22:15 The other books on our lists

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