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| 1880 Best Seller |
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ  |
| Lew Wallace (1827 - 1905) |
Lewis "Lew" Wallace was a lawyer, governor, Union general in the American Civil War, and American statesman.
He is best remembered for Ben-Hur, an historical fiction set amongst the characters of the New Testament.
It was America's best selling novel for nearly sixty years after it's publication.
Follow the wikipedia link to see a great photo of the author.
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| 1878 Best Seller |
| The Leavenworth Case |
| Anna Katherine Green (1846 - 1935) |
1878 Best Seller.
Green's first and best-known novel is a nicely complicated murder mystery with a classic drawing room resolution.
It was apparently used by Yale Law School to demonstrate the weakness of circumstantial evidence.
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| 1876 Best Seller |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) |
The story of a Missouri boyhood. Sometimes idyllic, sometimes rough and tumble. Schoolyard scrapes, getting lost in a cave, playing pirates on the Mississippi River - Tom Sawyer will rouse feelings of nostalgia for yesteryears. But underneath the childhood innocence lies the harsh adult realities of racism, superstitions, murder and revenge. An American Classic. |
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| 1874 Best Seller |
| Opening a Chestnut Burr |
| Edward Payson Roe (1838 - 1888) |
1874 Best Seller.
In his day E. P. Roe was a bigger seller than Mark Twain.
"In the Opening of a Chestnut Burr, Mr. Roe has made a marked advance upon his two previous stories.
He has already exhibited a remarkable power of description, which in this volume he uses with good effect in the scenes of
fire and shipwreck. It is thoroughly religious, thoroughly Christian both in tone and teaching."
-- Harper's Magazine. (a contemporary review)
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| 1872 Best Seller |
| Barriers Burned Away |
| Edward Payson Roe (1838 - 1888) |
1872 Best Seller.
In his day E. P. Roe was a bigger seller than Mark Twain.
A story of the Chicago fire.
"We accord a hearty commendation to this work. The narrative is vigorous, often intense, but rarely if ever melodramatic.
Its language is usually no less chaste than forcible and impressive.
It betrays a power of invention and description which is not met with every day in the best of writers of popular fiction."
-- Dr. Ripley, in the New York Tribune (contemporary review)
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| 1871 Best Seller |
| The Hoosier School-Master |
| Edward Eggleston (1837 - 1902) |
1871 Best Seller.
From age 19 Eggleston was an itinerant preacher until travelling broke his health.
The books relates the experiences of a young man sent to be the only teacher of a backwoods rural Indiana town.
It is an early example of American realist fiction.
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| 1871 Best Seller |
| Little Men |
| Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) |
1871 Best Seller.
The second of the 'Little Women' / 'March Family Saga' trilogy,
follows the progress of Jo Bhaer and her students of Plumfield Estate school.
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