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Literature: Novels

DkIT subject guide about useful literature resources: books, poetry, plays, criticism.

The Early Novel

Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave by Aphra Behn
Public domain audio book.
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Project Gutenberg e-book

Nineteenth Century Novels

Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
Open Access books

Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Shelf Number: 823 DIC
ISBN: 0141025263
Publication Date: 2003
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Shelf Number: 823 ELI
ISBN: 0140620761
Publication Date: 1994
Emma by Jane Austen
Shelf Number: 823 AUS
ISBN: 0140620109
Publication Date: 1994
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Shelf Number: 823 CON
ISBN: 0199536015
Publication Date: 2008

The Modern Novel

The Modern American Novel by Malcolm Bradbury
Shelf Number: 813.5409 BRA
ISBN: 0192892347
Publication Date: 1992
The African Trilogy by Chinua Achebe
Shelf Number: 823 ACH
ISBN: 0330303317
Publication Date: 1988
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Shelf Number: 823 ADI
ISBN: 0007189885
Publication Date: 2005
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Shelf Number: 823 JOY
ISBN: 1853260061
Publication Date: 1992