Saturday, October 25, 2014

Oldest / Earliest Fiction I've Read


To the best of my knowledge …

Note: has to be a complete, cover-to-cover read.


Frankenstein – 1818

The Hunchback of Notre Dame – 1831

Various macabre stories by Edgar Poe – 1838-1849

Moby Dick – 1851

A Tale of Two Cities – 1859

Great Expectations – 1861

Journey to the Center of the Earth – 1864

Ben-Hur – 1880

King Solomon’s Mines – 1885

“The Death of Ivan Ilych” – 1886 

Kidnapped – 1886

She – 1887

Allan Quatermain – 1887

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – 1889

Quo Vadis – 1895

Red Badge of Courage – 1895

War of the Worlds – 1897


Have I missed out on anything I should’ve read?

Note 2:  I find myself extremely astonished to see I have read no fiction published prior to the year 1818.  Can this be true?


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