What is your favorite book written before 1900?

Count of Monte Cristo has to be way up there. Compared to the plodding, sententious pace of his contemporaries, Dumas was the veritable Michael Bay of nineteenth century writers.

Candide by Voltaire

The History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison By Henry Adams

I much enjoyed Ben Franklin's autobiography.

Mad Trist by Sir Launcelot Canning.