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If you loved Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Classics, Literary, and Historical.

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A Sportsman’s Notebook Stories — Ivan Turgenev

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Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

After Anne A Novel of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Life — Logan Steiner

After Anne A Novel of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Life

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

Sense and Sensibility — Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

The Trumpet-major and Robert His Brother — Thomas Hardy

The Trumpet-major and Robert His Brother

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

The Bookshop — Penelope Fitzgerald

Penelope Fitzgerald

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

The Hungry Tide — Amitav Ghosh

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Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

Les Miserables. Victor Hugo — Victor Hugo

Les Miserables. Victor Hugo

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

Evelina — Frances Burney

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

The Annotated Persuasion — Jane Austen

The Annotated Persuasion

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

Tolkien Myths and Legends Box Set Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, the Fall of Arthur, Beowulf — J. R. R. Tolkien

Tolkien Myths and Legends Box Set Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, the Fall of Arthur, Beowulf

J. R. R. Tolkien

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

The Princesse de Cleves — Madame de Lafayette

The Princesse de Cleves

Madame de Lafayette

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

A Thousand Ships A Novel — Natalie Haynes

A Thousand Ships A Novel

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

America and Americans, and Selected Nonfiction — John Steinbeck

America and Americans, and Selected Nonfiction

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

A Passage to India — E. M. Forster

A Passage to India

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

Rome — Émile Zola

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

Wuthering Heights — Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights — Emily Bronte

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

The Sun Also Rises — Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

Loss of Memory is Only Temporary Stories — Johanna Kaplan

Loss of Memory is Only Temporary Stories

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close — Jonathan Safran Foer

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Jonathan Safran Foer

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

Marmee A Novel — Sarah Miller

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

Mrs. Dalloway — Virginia Woolf

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

The Song of Achilles — Madeline Miller

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

Themes: Classics • Literary • Historical

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