18th and 19th Century Must-Reads
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This list provides a great starting point for familiarizing yourself with some of the most canonical writing from the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
19 points - added 13 years ago by phdlist -
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Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
10 points - added 4 years ago by guest -
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The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
A sensation novel with full of surprises
4 points - added 4 years ago by guest -
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Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
4 points - added 13 years ago by phdlist -
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Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte – One of the most influential novels of 19th century British literature.
4 points - added 13 years ago by phdlist -
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
This controversial novel tells the tale of friendship between a runaway child and a runaway slave.
3 points - added 13 years ago by phdlist -
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Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
3 points - added 13 years ago by phdlist -
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3 points - added 13 years ago by phdlist -
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Middlemarch – George Eliot
3 points - added 13 years ago by phdlist -
10.
Songs of Innocence – William Blake
2 points - added 13 years ago by phdlist - 1 comment
Comments:
Experience is better though and it shouldve been included
Added 5 years ago by guest, 2 points
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Lyrical Ballads – William Wordsworth
2 points - added 13 years ago by phdlist -
12.
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau’s “journal” recording his attempts to commune with nature at Walden Pond
1 point - added 13 years ago by phdlist -
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Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathon Swift
1 point - added 13 years ago by phdlist -
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Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
This is an absolutely necessary reference point for any discussion of American poetry.
0 points - added 13 years ago by phdlist -
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The Awakening – Kate Chopin
This scandalous novel was published on the eve of the 20th century, and though it’s heralded as a classic today, the outrage it caused essentially ended Chopin’s career.
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The Rape of the Lock – Alexander Pope
0 points - added 13 years ago by phdlist -
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Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
0 points - added 13 years ago by phdlist -
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She Stoops to Conquer – Oliver Goldsmith
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Evelina – Fanny Burney
0 points - added 13 years ago by phdlist -
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A Vindication of the Rights of Women – Mary Wollstonecraft
-1 point - added 13 years ago by phdlist -
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The Complete Poetical Works of John Keats – John Keats
-1 point - added 13 years ago by phdlist -
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The Tatler and the Spectator – Addison and Steele
-3 points - added 13 years ago by phdlist -
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