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A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

Title Tag: Format: Four-Volume Novel

Description: The following novels were published in four volumes, a relatively rare format in the nineteenth century.

  1. Robert Plumer Ward.  De Vere: or, The Man of Independence.  4 vol.  London: Henry Colburn, 1827.
  2. Benjamin Disraeli.  Contarini Fleming: A Psychological Auto-Biography.  4 vol.  London: John Murray, 1832.
  3. Catharine Day Golland.  The Maid of Padua: or, Past Times. A Venetian Tale.  4 vol.  London: A. K. Newman, 1835.
  4. Robert Montgomery Bird.  Abdalla the Moor and the Spanish Knight: A Romance of Mexico.  4 vol.  London: A. K. Newman, 1835.
  5. Robert Plumer Ward.  De Clifford: or, The Constant Man.  4 vol.  London: Henry Colburn, 1841.
  6. Thomas Chandler Haliburton.  The Attache: or, Sam Slick in England.  4 vol.  London: Bentley, 1843.
  7. James Baillie Fraser.  The Dark Falcon: A Tale of the Attruck.  4 vol.  London: Bentley, 1844.
  8. Countess of Blessington.  Strathern: or, Life at Home and Abroad. A Story of the Present Day.  4 vol.  London: Henry Colburn, 1845.
  9. Anonymous.  The Queen's Lieges: A Novel.  4 vol.  London: T. C. Newby, 1846.
  10. James Grant.  The Romance of War: or, The Highlanders in Spain.  4 vol.  London: Henry Colburn, 1847.
  11. Emilie Flygare-Carlén.  The Hermit: A Novel.  4 vol.  London: T. C. Newby, 1853.
  12. Edward Bulwer Lytton.  My Novel: or, Varieties of English Life.  4 vol.  Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1853.
  13. Edward Bulwer Lytton.  What Will He Do with It?: A Novel.  4 vol.  Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1859.
  14. Charles Reade.  The Cloister and the Hearth: A Tale of the Middle Ages.  4 vol.  London: Trübner, 1861.
  15. Mrs. Ogden Meeker.  Fortune's Football: A Historical Tale.  4 vol.  London: T. C. Newby, 1864.
  16. Anonymous.  The Loyalist's Daughter: A Novel or Tale of the Revolution. By a Royalist.  4 vol.  London: Adams and Francis, 1867.
  17. George Eliot.  Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life.  4 vol.  Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1872.
  18. Jean Ingelow.  Off the Skelligs.  4 vol.  London: Henry S. King, 1872.
  19. Charlotte Mary Yonge.  The Pillars of the House: or, Under Wode, Under Rode.  4 vol.  London: Macmillan, 1873.
  20. Edward Bulwer Lytton.  The Parisians.  4 vol.  Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1874.
  21. George Eliot.  Daniel Deronda.  4 vol.  Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1876.
  22. Anthony Trollope.  The Prime Minister.  4 vol.  London: Chapman and Hall, 1876.
  23. Victor Hugo.  The History of a Crime.  4 vol.  London: Sampson Low, 1878.