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Authors of comic books are not included unless they have been published in book format (for example, comic albums, manga tankōbon volumes, trade paperbacks, or graphic novels ). Authors such as Jane Austen, Miguel de Cervantes, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Victor Hugo, Jules Verne, Rick Riordan, Ernest Hemingway, Jack ...
Persuasion. (novel) Persuasion is the last novel completed by the English author Jane Austen. It was published on 20 December 1817, along with Northanger Abbey, six months after her death, although the title page is dated 1818. [ 1]
Hence, in cases where there is too much uncertainty, they are excluded from the list. Having sold more than 600 million copies worldwide,[ 13] Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling is the best-selling book series in history. The first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, has sold in excess of 120 million copies, [ 14] making ...
number-one books. This is a list of lists by year of The New York Times number-one books . The New York Times Best Seller list was first published without fanfare on October 12, 1931. [ 1][ 2] It consisted of five fiction and four nonfiction for the New York City region only. [ 2] The following month the list was expanded to eight cities, with ...
Sanditon. Sanditon (1817) is an unfinished novel by the English writer Jane Austen. In January 1817, Austen began work on a new novel she called The Brothers, later titled Sanditon, and completed eleven chapters before stopping work in mid-March 1817, probably because of illness. [ 1] R.W. Chapman first published a full transcription of the ...
Anne is the overlooked middle daughter of a narcissistic and extravagant baronet, Sir Walter Elliot of Kellynch Hall. Unique among Jane Austen heroines, she is, already, 26/27-years-old at the beginning of the novel and seemingly a confirmed spinster. [ 5] Her mother is dead; her father and older sister are vain and selfish; and her younger ...
Love and Freindship. Love and Friendship [ sic] is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790. While aged 11–18, Austen wrote her tales in three notebooks. These still exist, one in the Bodleian Library and the other two in the British Museum.
The Beautifull Cassandra. The Beautifull Cassandra [ sic] is a short novel from Jane Austen 's juvenilia. It is a parody of the melodramatic, sentimental and picaresque novels of the time, [ 1] and tells the story of a young woman who sets off into the world to make her fortune.