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Originally Posted by HarryT
For me, the 19th century was truly the era of great British novelists: Jane Austen, the Brontė sisters, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy - the list goes on and on. All among my very favourite books.
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I noted that Trollope, my very favorite of the Victorians, didn't crack the top 25. Neither did George Meredith among others, but I suppose that he's probably not read much any more. I suspect that two factors that hurt Trollope were his literary fecundity, making choice difficult, and that his best known books were in two series, of which the first was not the best book.