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Classics · 1880s

Best Classics of the 1880s

The best classics books first published in the 1880s, ranked — a focused list of 13 titles.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain · 1884 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy · 1886 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
The Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy · 1886 Essential Read See details →
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880 Recommended See details →
The Portrait of a Lady Henry James · 1881 Recommended See details →
The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain · 1881 Recommended See details →
Also sprach Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche · 1883 Recommended See details →
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain · 1884 Recommended See details →
Little men Louisa May Alcott · 1885 Recommended See details →
Jo's Boys Louisa May Alcott · 1886 Recommended See details →
The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling · 1887 Recommended See details →
Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog) Jerome Klapka Jérôme · 1889 Recommended See details →

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