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    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

    by pardis

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