Fiction
The novel, despite so often degenerating into mere entertainment, can be devastatingly powerful, to wit Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, by Charlotte and Emily Brontë, respectively, whom Thackeray described as the greatest writers of the age.
In this section of the library are to be found novels that are popular and entertaining, but, notwithstanding, are of very high quality.
Jane Austen:
Emma
Mansfield Park
Northanger Abbey
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Anne Brontë:
Agnes Gray
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Charlotte Brontë:
Jane Ayre
The Professor
Villette
Emily Brontë:
Wuthering Heights
Dr. Samuel Johnson:
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
Sir. James Knowles:
The History of King Arthur and his Knights
Horace Walpole:
The Castle of Otranto
Anonymous:
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight