New Books
- Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
- R M Ballantyne -Deep Down
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Dead-Sea Fruit
- Mortimer Collins - Sweet Anne Page
- Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone
- Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot
- Émile Gaboriau - Slaves of Paris
- Hermann Goedsche - Biarritz
- Bret Harte - The Luck of Roaring Camp
- Sheridan Le Fanu - Haunted Lives
- George MacDonald - Robert Falconer
- Hesba Stretton - Little Meg's children
- Jules Verne - In Search of the Castaways
- Emile Zola - Madeleine Ferat
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