Twain's 4 in a row:
| Title | Year |
|---|---|
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | 1876 |
| The Prince and the Pauper | 1881 |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | 1884 |
| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court | 1889 |
Woolf's 4 in a row:
| Title | Year |
|---|---|
| Mrs Dalloway | 1925 |
| To the Lighthouse | 1927 |
| Orlando | 1928 |
| The Waves | 1931 |
Austen had a terrific run, but Mansfield Park was in the middle of that run, and it's not usually considered an all-time classic.
Hemingway also had a great run, but it was interrupted by To Have and Have Not, which isn't typically considered a classic.
Steinbeck's major works, too, were interrupted by lesser releases.
Are there any other authors that have more than 4 all-time classic novels in a row?
(Mostly thinking about this in terms of sustained uninterrupted greatness, the literary equivalent of consecutive home runs, maybe?}
And obviously Shakespeare had at least 8 bangers in a row, but he was a playwright, so that doesn't count:
| Title | Approx. Year |
|---|---|
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream | c. 1595–96 |
| Romeo and Juliet | c. 1594–96 |
| Julius Caesar | c. 1599–1600 |
| Hamlet | c. 1599–1601 |
| Othello | c. 1603–04 |
| King Lear | c. 1605–06 |
| Macbeth | c. 1605–06 |
| The Tempest | c. 1611–12 |
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Mansfield Park is my favorite Austen personally. It’s a pretty consistent 6 novel run.
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