## A Short Collection of British Fiction

A selection of 28 classic British novels from the 19th century (including a few late 18th-century items). Full text versions, in plain text format, harvested from trustworthy public domain sites.

The subdirectory ```corpus``` contains the texts, whereas the file ```overview``` provides metadata.

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textID author	authorID	title	1stPubl	author_gender	comment
1	Austen, Jane 	JA	Emma	1815	1	
2	Austen, Jane 	JA	Pride	1813	1	
3	Austen, Jane 	JA	Sense	1811	1	
4	Bronte, Anne	AB	Agnes Grey	1847	1	
5	Bronte, Anne	AB	Tentant of Wildfell Hall	1848	1	
6	Bronte, Charlotte	CB	Jane Eyre	1847	1	
7	Bronte, Charlotte	CB	Professor	1845	1	date of publ not exact; published posthumously
8	Bronte, Charlotte	CB	Villette	1853	1	
9	Bronte, Emily	EB	Wuthering Heights	1847	1	
10	Dickens, Charles	CD	Bleak House	1852	2	serial
11	Dickens, Charles	CD	David Copperfield	1849	2	serial
12	Dickens, Charles	CD	Hard Times	1854	2	serial
13	Eliot, George	GE	Adam Bede	1859	1	
14	Eliot, George	GE	Middlemarch	1871	1	
15	Eliot, George	GE	The Mill on the Floss	1860	1	
16	Fielding, Henry	HF	Joseph Andrews	1742	2	
17	Fielding, Henry	HF	Tom Jones	1749	2	
18	Richardson, Samuel	SR	Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady 	1748	2	epistolary novel
19	Richardson, Samuel	SR	Pamela	1740	2	epistolary novel
20	Sterne, Laurence	LS	Tristam Shandy	1759	2	
21	Sterne, Laurence	LS	Sentimental	1768	2	
22	Trollope, Antony	AT	Prime Minister	1876	2	Palliser series
23	Trollope, Antony	AT	Barchester Towers	1857	2	"Chronicles of Barsetshire" series
24	Trollope, Antony	AT	Phineas Finn	1869	2	Palliser series
25	Thackeray, William Makepeace	WT	Vanity Fair	1848	2	
26	Thackeray, William Makepeace	WT	The History of Pendennis	1848	2	
27	Thackeray, William Makepeace	WT	The Luck of Barry Lyndon 	1844	2	
