The Really Long List of Great Literature (cont'd)
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Eigthteenth-Century Literature (1701 to 1800 CE)
1702
The Narrow Road to the Interior
by Matsuo Bashō, Japan
Prose and poetry collection, also known as The Narrow Road to the Deep North
1703
The Love Suicides at Sonezaki
by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japan
Play
1704
A Tale of a Tub
by Jonathan Swift, Ireland
Novel
1709
Turcaret
by Alain-René Lesage, France
Play
1711
An Essay on Criticism
by Alexander Pope, England
Poem
1715–1735
Gil Blas
by Alain-René Lesage, France
Novel
1719–1720
Love in Excess
by Eliza Haywood, England
Novel
1721
The Love Suicides at Amijima
by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japan
Play
1722
Moll Flanders
by Daniel Defoe, England
Novel
1723
The Henriade
by Voltaire, France
Epic poem
1724
Roxana
by Daniel Defoe, England
Novel
1726
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift, Ireland
Novel
1728
The Beggar's Opera
by John Gay, England
Play
1730
The Game of Love and Chance
by Marivaux, France
Play
1731
Manon Lescaut
by Antoine François Prévost, France
Novel
1740
Pamela
by Samuel Richardson, England
Novel
1741
Shamela
by Henry Fielding, England
Novel
1742
Joseph Andrews
by Henry Fielding, England
Novel
1744
La Dispute
by Pierre de Marivaux, France
Play
1746
The Servant of Two Masters
by Carlo Goldoni, Italy
Play
1747
Zadiq
by Voltaire, France
Novel
1748
Clarissa
by Samuel Richardson, England
Novel
The Treasury of Loyal Retainers
by Takeda Izumo, Miyoshi Shōraku, Namiki Senryū, Japan
Play
1748–1749
Fanny Hill
by Johyn Cleland, England
Novel
1749
Tom Jones
by Henry Fielding, England
Novel
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
by Thomas Gray, England
Poem
1750
The Scholars
by Wu Jingzi, China
Novel, also known as Unofficial History of the Scholars
1751
Amelia
by Henry Fielding, England
Novel
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
by Tobias Smollett, Scotland
Novel
1752
Micromégas
by Voltaire, France
Novella
The Female Quixote
by Charlotte Lennox, Scotland
Novel
1753
The Mistress of the Inn
by Carlo Goldoni, Italy
Play
Sir Charles Grandison
by Samuel Richardson, England
Novel
1759
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
by Samuel Johnson, France
Novella
Candide
by Voltaire, England
Novella
1759–1767
Tristram Shandy
by Laurence Sterne, England
Novel, also known as The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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1761
Julie; or, The New Heloise
by Jean Jacques Rousseau, England
Novel
1762
Emile, or On Education
by Jean Jacques Rousseau, England
Novel
c.1763
Three Hundred Tang Poems
by Du Fu, Li Bai and others, China
Poetry collection
1765
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
by Thomas Percy, England
Poetry collection
1766
Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio
by Pu Songling, China
Story collection
1767
Minna von Barnhelm or the Soldiers' Happiness
by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Germany
Play
1769
O Uraguai
by Termindo Sipílio, Brazil
Epic poem
1771
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
by Tobias Smollett, Scotland
Novel
The Man of Feeling
by Henry Mackenzie, Scotland
Novel
1774
The Sorrows of Young Werther
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany
1775
The Rivals
by Richard Sheridan, England
Play
The Barber of Seville
by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, France
Play
1776–1779
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
by Edward Gibbon, England
Play
1777
The School for Scandal
by Richard Sheridan, England
Play
1778
Evelina
by Fanny Burney, England
Novel
1779
Nathan the Wise
by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Germany
Play
Fables and Parables
by Ignacy Krasicki, Poland
Play
1781
The Robbers
by Friedrich Schiller, Germany
Play
1782
Dangerous Liaisons
by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, France
Novel
1784
Elegaic Sonnets
by Charlotte Smith, England
Poetry collection
The Marriage of Figaro
by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, France
Play
1785
The Task
by William Cowper, England
Play
The 120 Days of Sodom
by Marquis de Sade, France
Play
1785–1790
Anton Reiser
by Karl Philipp Moritz, Germany
Novel
1786
Vathek
by William Beckford, England
Novel
1787
Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien
by Friedrich Schiller, Germany
Play
1787–1789
The Ghost-Seer
by Friedrich Schiller, Germany
Novel
1788
Emmeline
by Charlotte Turner Smith, England
Novel
Paul et Virginie
by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, France
Novel
1789
Songs of Innocence
by William Blake, England
Poetry collection includes The Shepherd, The Lamb, The Little Black Boy, The Chimney Sweeper, and others
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
by Olaudah Equiano, Benin
Memoir
1791
Life of Samuel Johnson
by James Boswell, England
Biography
Justine
by Marquis de Sade, France
Novel
1791–1792
Dream of the Red Chamber
by Cao Zhan, China
Novel, also known as The Story of the Stone or The Golden Days
1792
The Nun
by Dennis Diderot, France
Novel, also known as Memoirs of a Nun
Poor Liza
by Nicolai Karamzin, Russia
Novel
c.1792
Epic of Manas
Anonymous, Kyrgyzstan
Epic poem
1794
Songs of Experience
by William Blake, England
Poetry collection includes Earth's Answer, The Tyger, A Poison Tree, London, and others
The Mysteries of Udolpho
by Ann Radcliffe, England
Novel
1795–1796
William Meister's Apprenticeship
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany
Novel
1796
Camilla
by Fanny Burney, England
Novel
The Monk
by Matthew Lewis, England
Novel
Marchmont
by Charlotte Smith, England
Novel
Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
by Denis Diderot, France
Novel
1797
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, England
Poem
1797–1799
Hyperion
by Friedrich Hölderlin, Germany
Novel
1797–1801
Juliette
by Marquis de Sade, France
Novel
1797–1806
Hymns and Fragments
by Friedrich Hölderlin, Germany
Poetry collection
1798
Speed the Plough
by Thomas Morton, England
Play
1798–1800
Lyrical Ballads
by William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, England
Poetry collection
1799
Arthur Mervyn, or Memoirs of the Year 1793
by Charles Brockden Brown, United States
Novel
1800
Mary Stuart
by Friedrich Schiller, Germany
Play
Nineteenth-Century Literature (1801 to 1900 CE)
1802
René
by François René de Chateaubriand, France
Novella
Delphine
by Germaine de Stael, France
Novel
1803
Thaddeus of Warsaw
by Jane Porter, England
Novel
1804
William Tell
by Friedrich Schiller, Germany
Play
1805
The Lay of the Last Minstrel
by Walter Scott, Scotland
Poem
1807
Poems
by William Wordsworth, England
Poetry collection
Corinne
by Germaine de Stael, France
Novel
1808–1832
Faust
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany
Play
1808
Marmion
by Walter Scott, Scotland
Epic poem
1809
Elective Affinities
by Johuann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Germany
Novel
1810
The Lady of the Lake
by Walter Scott, Scotland
Epic poem
Michael Kohlhaas
by Heinrich von Kleist, Germany
Novella
1812
Poems
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany
Poetry collection
Swiss Family Robinson
by Johann David Wyss, Switzerland
Novel
1812–1818
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
by George Gordon Byron, England
Poem
1812–1857
Grimm's Fairy Tales
by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Germany
Story collection, also known as Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales or Children's and Household Tales, includes stories "Cinderella", "Little Red Cap", "Hansel and Gretel", "Rapunzel", "Snow White", "Rumpelstiltskin", "Tom Thumb", and others.
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Waverley
by Walter Scott, Scotland
Novel
1814—1842
Tale of the Eight Dogs
by Takizawa Bakin, Japan
Novel
1815–1816
The Devil's Elixir
by E.T.A. Hoffmann, Germany
Novel
1816
"Kubla Khan"
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, England
Poem
Adolphe
by Benjamin Constant, Switzerland
Novel
1817
Persuasion
by Jane Austen, England
Novel
The Story of the Just Casper and Fair Annie
by Clemens Brentano, Germany
Novella
Rob Roy
by Walter Scott, Scotland
Novel
Endymion
by John Keats, England
Poem
Nightmare Abbey
by Thomas Love Peacock, England
Novella
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley, England
Novel, also known as Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
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1819
Mademoiselle de Scuderi
by E.T.A. Hoffmann, Germany
Novella
Ivanhoe
by Walter Scott, Scotland
Novel
1819–1821
The Life and Opinions of Tomcat Murr
by E.T.A. Hoffmann, Germany
Novel
1819–1824
Don Juan
by George Gordon Byron, England
Epic poem
1820
Odes
by John Keats, England
Poetry collection
Prometheus Unbound
by Percy Byssche Shelley, England
Poem
Melmoth the Wanderer
by Charles Maturin, Ireland
Novel
Ruslan and Ludmila
by Alexander Pushkin, Russia
Epic poem
1821
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
by Thomas De Quincy, England
Memoir
Rameau's Nephew
by Denis Diderot, France
Nonfiction
The Prince of Homburg
by Heinrich von Kleist, Germany
Play, also known as Prince Friedrich of Homburg
Poems
by William Cullen Bryant, United States
Poetry collection
The Pioneers
by James Fenimore Cooper, United States
Novel
1822
The Vision of Judgment
by George Gordon Byron, England
Poem
1824
Julian and Maddalo
by Percy Bysshe Shelley, England
Poem
The Fountain of Bakhchisaray
by Alexander PUshkin, Russia
Poem
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
by James Hogg, Scotland
Novel
1824–1832
Our Village
by Mary Russell Mitford, England
Story collection
1825
Woe From Wit
by Alexander Griboyedov, Russia
Play
1825–1832
Eugene Onegin
by Alexander Pushkin, Russia
Novel in verse
1826
Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing
by Joseph von Eichendorff, Germany
Novella
The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper, United States
Novel
1827
Flowers in a Mirror
by Li Ruzhen, China
Novel
Book of Songs
by Heinrich Heine, Germany
Poetry collection
1827–1842
The Betrothed
by Alessandro Manzoni, Italy
Novel
1828
Rachel Dyer
by John Neal, United States
Novel
1829
The Chouans
by Honoré de Balzac, France
Novel
1830
A Passion in the Desert
by Honoré de Balzac, France
Novel
The Tales of Belkin
by Alexander Pushkin, Russia
Story collection
1831
The Elixir of Life
by Honoré de Balzac, France
Novel
Queen Margot
by Alexandre Dumas, France
Play
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor-Marie Hugo, France
The Red and the Black
by Stendhal, France
Novel
Boris Godunov
by Alexander Pushkin, Russia
Play
1832
Indiana
by George Sand, France
Novel
Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
by Nikolai Gogol, Ukraine
Story collection
1833
Gamiani, or Two Nights of Excess
Anonymous, France
Novel
Eugénie Grandet
by Honoré de Balzac, France
Novel
Lélia
by George Sand, France
Novel
Old Goriot
by Honoré de Balzac, France
Novel, also known as Father Goriot
Master Thaddeus
by Adam Mickiewicz, Poland
Epic poem
1835
Canti
by Giacomo Leopardi, Italy
Poetry collection
1835–1842
Taras Bulba
by Nikolai Gogol, Ukraine
Novella
1835–1849
Kalevala
by Elias Lönnrot, Finland
Epic poem
1836
May
by Karel Hynek Mácha, Bohemia
Poem
The Captain's Daughter
by Alexander Pushkin, Russia
Novel
Sartor Resartus
by Thomas Carlyle, Scotland
Novel
The Government Inspector
by Nikolai Gogol, Ukraine
Play, also known as The Inspector General
"The Nose"
by Nikolai Gogol, Ukraine
Story
1837
The Pickwick Papers
by Charles Dickens, England
Novel
The Bronze Horseman
by Alexander Pushkin, Russia
Epic poem
Twice-Told Tales
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, United States
Story collection
1837—1843
Lost Illusions
by Honoré de Balzac, France
Novel
1838
The Lion of Flanders
by Hendrik Conscience, Belgium
Novel
A Psalm of Life
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, United States
Poem
The Charterhouse of Parma
by Stendhal, France
Novel
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
by Edgar Allan Poe, United States
Story collection includes "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall", "MS. Found in a Bottle", and others.
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1840
A Hero of Our Time
by Mikhail Lermontov, Russia
Novel
Two Years Before the Mast
by Richard Henry Dana Jr., United States
Memoir
1840–1847
The Ingoldsby Legends
by Richard Harris Barham, England
Story collection
1841
The Deerslayer
by James Fenimore Cooper, United States
Novel
1842
Windsor Castle
by William Harrison Ainsworth, England
Novel
The Nursery Rhymes of England
by James Orchard Halliwell, England
Poetry collection
Lays of Ancient Rome
by Thomas Babington Macauley, England
Poetry collection
The Jews' Beech Tree
by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Germany
Demon
by Mikhail Lermontov, Russia
Poem
Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol, Ukraine
Novel
"The Overcoat"
by Nikolai Gogol, Ukraine
Story
1843–1847
A Harlot High and Low
by Honoré de Balzac, France
Novel, also known as The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans
1844
Poems
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, England
Poetry collection, also known as A Drama of Exile, and other Poems
The Luck of Barry Lyndon
by William Makepeace Thackeray, England
Novel, also known as The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.
The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas, France
Novel
Germany. A Winter's Tale
by Theodor Storm, Germany
Epic poem
1844–1846
The Count of Monte-Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas, France
Novel
1845
Twenty Years After
by Alexandre Dumas, France
Novel
Carmen
by Prosper Mérimée, France
Novella
1846
Cousin Bette
by Honoré de Balzac, France
Novel
The Devil's Pool
by George Sand, France
Novel
1846–1863
The Book of Nonsense
by Edward Lear, England
Poetry collection
The Vicomte de Bragelonne
by Alexander Dumas, France
Novel
Evangeline
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, United States
Epic poem
1848
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by Anne Brontë, England
Novel
Dombey and Son
by Charles Dickens, England
Novel
Mary Barton
by Elizabeth Gaskell, England
Novel
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray, England
Novel
1850
Sonnets From the Portuguese
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, England
Poetry collection
Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day
by Robert Browning, England
Poem
In Memoriam A.H.H.
by Alfred Lord Tennyson, England
Poem
The Prelude
by William Woodsworth, England
Poem
The House of Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, United States
Novel
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville, United States
Novel
1852
Camille
by Alexandre Dumas, fils, France
Play
Enamels and Cameos
by Théophile Gautier, France
Poetry collection
Childhood
by Leo Tolstoy, Russia
Novella
A Sportsman's Sketches
by Ivan Turgenev, Russia
Story collection
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe, United States
Novel
Cranford
by Elizabeth Gaskell, England
Novel
Les Chatiments
by Victor-Marie Hugo, France
Poetry collection
"Bartleby, the Scrivener"
by Herman Melville, United States
Story
1853–1862
Kalev's Son
by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Estonia
Epic poem
The Girls of the Fire
by Gérard de Nerval, France
Novel
1854–1855
The Newcomes
by William Makepeace Thackeray, England
Novel
1855
Men and Women
by Robert Browning, England
Poetry collection includes Love Among the Ruins, Evelyn Hope, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, Andrea del Sarto, and others
North and South
by Elizabeth Gaskell, England
Novel
Westward Ho!
by Charles Kingsley, England
Novel
The Warden
by Anthony Trollope, England
Novel
The Song of Hiawatha
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, United States, Epic poem
Benito Cereno
by Herman Melville, United States
Novella
1855–1863
Russian Folk Tales
by Alexander Afanasiev, Russia
Story collection
1855–1892
Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman, United States
Poetry collection includes Song of Myself; I Sing the Body Electric; O Captain! My Captain!; Pioneers! O Pioneers!; and others
1856
Aurora Leigh
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, England
Poem
The Contemplations
by Victor Hugo, France
Poetry collection
Tom Brown's School Days
by Thomas Hughes, England
Novel
Barchester Towers
by Anthony Trollope, England
Novel
The Flowers of Evil
by Charles Baudelaire, France
Poetry collection
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert, France
Novel, also known as Novel, also known as Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners or Madame Bovary: Provincial Lives
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1858
Phantastes
by George MacDonald, England
Novel
Adam Bede
by George Eliot, England
Novel
The Lifted Veil
by George Eliot, England
Novella
The Virginians
by William Makepeace Thackeray, England
Novel
Oblomov
by Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov, Russia
Novel
Home of the Gentry
by Ivan Turgenev, Russia
Novel, also known as A House of Gentlefolk
1859–1883
The Legend of the Ages
by Victor Hugo, France
Poetry collection
1859–1885
Idylls of the King
by Alfred Lord Tennyson, England
Poem
Max Havelaar
by Multatuli, Netherlands
Novel
The Storm
by Alexander Ostrovsky, Russia
Play
First Love
by Ivan Turgenev, Russia
Novella
1862
Goblin Market and Other Poems
by Christina Rossetti, England
Poetry collection
Salammbô
by Gustave Flaubert, France
Novel
Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Turgenev, Russia
Novel
The Water Babies
by Charles Kingsley, England
Novel
1864
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Novel
Les Destinés
by Alfred de Vigny, France
Poetry collection
Uncle Silas
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Ireland
Novel
Notes From Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russia
Novel
1865
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll, England
Novella
From the Earth to the Moon
by Jules Verne, France
Novel
1866
Poems and Ballads
by Algernon Swinburne, England
Poetry collection
The Papess Joanne
by Emmanuel Roidis, Greece
Novel
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russia
Novel
The Gambler
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russia
Novella
1867
Peer Gynt
by Henrik Ibsen, Norway
Play
Theresa Raquin
by Émile Zola, France
Novel
1868–1869
The Ring and the Book
by Robert Browning, England
Poem
The Songs of Maldoror
by Comte de Lautréamont, France
Poem
1969
Collected Poems
by Matthew Arnold, England
Poetry collection
Lorna Doone
by Richard Blackmore, England
Novel
Phineas Finn
by Anthony Trollope, England
Novel
A Sentimental Education
by Gustave Flaubert, France
Novel
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
by Jules Verne, France
Novel
Venus in Furs
by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Germany
Novella
King Lear of the Steppes
by Ivan Turgenev, Russia
Novella
1870–1881
The House of Life
by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, England
Poem
Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll, England
Novella, also known as Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
Rimas
by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spain
Poetry collection
1872
Fairy Tales and Stories
by Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark
Story collection
In a Glass Darkly
by Sheridan Le Fanu, Ireland
Story collection
The Possessed
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russia
Novel, also known as Demons or The Devils
Torrents of Spring
by Ivan Turgenev, Russia
Novel
1872–1879
Martín Fierro
by José Hernández, Spain
Poem
1873
Wry-Blue Loves
by Tristan Corbiére, France
Poetry collection
A Season in Hell
by Arthur Rimbaud, France
Poem
Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne, France
Novel
The Enchanted Wanderer
by Nikolai Leskov, Russia
Novella
The She-Devils
by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, France
Story collection
The Mysterious Island
by Jules Verne, France
Novel
The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russia
Novel
Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia?
by Nikolai Nekrasov, Russia
Epic poem
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy, Russia
Novel
Pepita Jimenez
by Juan Valera, Spain
Novel
1875
The Way We Live Now
by Anthony Trollope, England
Novel
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs
by William Morris, England
Epic poem
The Crime of Father Amaro
by José Maria Eça de Queirós, Portugal
Novel
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain, United States
1877
Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell, France
Story collection
Three Tales
by Gustave Flaubert, France
Story collection
The Drunkard
by Émile Zola, France
Novel
1878
A Tale of Heroic Sons and Daughters
by Wen Kang, China
Novel
The Return of the Native
by Thomas Hardy, England
Novel
1879
The Egoist
by George Meredith, England
Novel
Woyzeck
by Georg Büchner, Germany
Play
A Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen, Norway
Play
The Red Room
by August Strindberg, Sweden
Novel
Daisy Miller
by Henry James, United States
Novella
1880
Workers in the Dawn
by George Gissing, England
Novel
Nana
by Émile Zola, France
Novel
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russia
Novel
Ben-Hur
by Lew Wallace, United States
Novel
1880–1881
Heidi
by Johanna Spyri, Switzerland
Novel
1881
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cuba
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazil
Novel
The Black Robe
by Wilkie Collins, England
Novel
Bouvard and Pécuchet
by Gustave Flaubert, France
Novel
Sagesse
by Paul Verlaine, France
Poetry collection
The House by the Medlar Tree
by Giovanni Vergas, Italy
Novel
Lefty
by Nikolai Leskov, Russia
Novel
The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James, United States
Novel
1882
Ismaelillo
by José Marti, Cuba
Poetry collection
An Enemy of the People
by Henrik Ibsen, Norway
Play
New Arabian Nights
by Robert Louis Stevenson, Scotland
Story collection
1883
A Woman's Life
by Guy de Maupassant, France
Novel
The Adventures of Pinocchio
by Carlo Collodi, Italy
Novel
1883–1885
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
by Friedrich Nietzsche, Germany
Novel
Against Nature
by Joris-Karl Huysman, France
Novel, also known as Against the Grain
Cavalleria Rusticana
by Giovanni Verga, Italy
Play
The Wild Duck
by Henrik Ibsen, Norway
Play
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain, United States
1884–1885
La Regenta
by Clarin, Spain
Novel
1885
King Solomon's Mines
by H. Rider Haggard, England
Novel
Marius the Epicurean
by Walter Pater, England
Novel
Bel Ami
by Guy de Maupassant, France
Novel
Germinal
by Émile Zola, France
Novel
Illuminations
by Rimbaud, France
Poetry collection
The Masterpiece
by Émile Zola, France
Novel
Motley Stories
by Anton Chekhov, Russia
Story collection includes "The Huntsman", and others.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
by Leo Tolstoy, Russia
Novella
The House of Ulloa
by Emilia Pardo Bazány, Spain
Novel
Compassion
by Benito Pérez Galdós, Spain
Novel
1887
She
by H. Rider Haggard, France
Novel
Poésies
by Stéphane Mallarmé, France
Poetry collection
Flagman Thiel
by Gerhardt Hauptmann, Germany
Novella
At Dusk
by Anton Chekhov, Russia
Story collection, also known as In the Twilight, includes "Dreams", "A Trivial Occurrence", "A Bad Business", "At Home", "A Restless Guest", "On the Road", "Agafya", and others.
Fortunata and Jacinta
by Benito Pérez Galdós, Spain
Novel
The People of Hemsö
by August Strindberg, Sweden
Novel
The Father
by August Strindberg, Sweden
Novel
"The Man Who Would Be King"
by Rudyard Kipling, England
Plain Tales from the Hills
by Rudyard Kipling, England
Story collection
Pierre et Jean
by Guy de Maupassant, France
Novel
Azul...
by Rubén Darío, Nicaragua
Poetry collection
The Maias
by José Maria Eça de Queirós, Portugal
Novel
The Aspern Papers
by William James, United States
Novella
1889
Three Men in a Boat
by Jerome K. Jerome, England
Novel
The Kreutzer Sonata
by Leo Tolstoy, Russia
Novella
Miss Julie
by August Strindberg, Sweden
Play
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Mark Twain, United States
Thaïs
by Anatole France, France
Novel
The Beast Within
by Émile Zola, France
Novel
The Doll
by Bolesław Prus, Poland
Novel
1891
New Grub Street
by George Gissing, England
Novel
News from Nowhere
by William Morris, England
Novel
Down There
by Joris-Karl Huysman, France
Novel
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde, Ireland
The Fleeing Mamluk
by Jurji Zaydan, Lebanon
Novel
Hedda Gabler
by Henrik Ibsen, Norway
Play
The Duel
by Anton Chekhov, Russia
Novel
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
by Ambrose Bierce, United States
Story
1892
Pelleas and Melisande
by Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium
Play
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle, England
Story collection includes A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-Headed League, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, and others.
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Critique • Quotes • Text • At the movies • Buy the book
The Diary of a Nobody
by George and Weedon Grossmith, England
Novel
Lady Windermere's Fan
by Oscar Wilde, England
Play
The Captive of the Mahdi Pretender
by Jurji Zaydan, Lebanon
Novel
Mysteries
by Knut Hamsun, Norway
Novel
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
by Ambrose Bierce, United States
Story collection
"The Yellow Wallpaper"
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, United States
Story
1893
The Master Builder
by Henrik Ibsen, Norway
Play
"The Damned Thing"
by Ambrose Bierce, United States
Story
1894
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle, England
Story collection includes "Silver Blaze", "The Greek Interpreter", "The Final Problem", and others.
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Critique • Quotes • Text • At the movies • Buy the book
The Prisoner of Zenda
by Anthony Hope, England
Novel
The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling, England
Story collection
Esther Waters
by George Moore, Ireland
Novel
Arms and the Man
by George Bernard Shaw, Ireland
Play
Pan
by Knut Hamsun, Norway
Novel
The New Woman
by Bolesław Prus, Poland
Novel
The Story of Gösta Berling
by Selma Lagerlöf, Sweden
Novel
Tevye the Dairyman
by Sholom Aleichem, Ukraine
Story collection, also known as Tevye the Dairyman or Tevye the Milkman and the Railroad Stories
Pudd'nhead Wilson
by Mark Twain, United States
Novel
1895
Santa Evita
by Tomás Eloy Martínez, Argentina
Novel
Almayer's Folly
by Joseph Conrad, England
Novel
The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells, England
Novel
Effi Briest
by Theodor Fontane, Germany
Novel
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde, Ireland
Play
An Ideal Husband
by Oscar Wilde, Ireland
Play
Lilith
by George MacDonald, Scotland
Novel
1895–1896
Quo Vadis
by Henryk Sienkiewicz, Poland
Play
The Well at the World's End
by William Morris, England
Novel
The Island of Doctor Moreau
by H.G. Wells, England
Novel
Ubu Roi
by Alfred Jarry, France
Play
The Seagull
by Anton Chekhov, Russia
Play
The Bostonians
by Henry James, United States
Novel
The Country of the Pointed Firs
by Sarah Orne Jewett, United States
Novella
1897
The Invisible Man
by H.G. Wells, England
Novel
The Fruits of the Earth
by André Gide, France
Prose poem
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
by Oscar Wilde, Ireland
Poem
Pharoah
by Bolesław Prus, Poland
Novel
What Maisie Knew
by Henry James, United States
Novel
1898
The War of the Worlds
by H.G. Wells, England
Novel
Cyrano de Bergerac
by Edmond Rostand, France
Play
The Stechlin
by Theodor Fontane, Germany
Novel
Candida
by George Bernard Shaw, Ireland
Play
As a Man Grows Older
by Italo Svevo, Italy
Novel
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James, United States
Novella
1899
Don Casmurro
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazil
Novel
The Amateur Cracksman
by E.W. Hornung, England
Story collection
Eclipse of the Cresent Moon
by Géza Gárdonyi, Hungary
Novel
Umrao Jaan Ada
by Mirza Hadi Ruswa, India
Novel
Some Experiences of an Irish RM
by Somerville and Ross, Ireland
Novel
Virgin of Quraish
by Jurji Zaydan, Lebanon
Novel
Hunger
by Knut Hamsun, Norway
Novel
"The Lady With the Dog"
by Anton Chekhov, Russia
Story
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin, United States
Novel
Uncle Vanya
by Anton Chekhov, Russia
Play
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum, United States
Novella, also known as The Wizard of Oz
Sister Carrie
by Theodore Dreiser, United States
Novel
1900–1901
The Fall of the Kine
by Johannes V. Jensen, Denmark
Novel
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