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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Songs of Innocence – William Blake
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Walden – Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau’s “journal” recording his attempts to commune with nature at Walden Pond
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Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
This is an absolutely necessary reference point for any discussion of American poetry.
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Lyrical Ballads – William Wordsworth
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A Vindication of the Rights of Women – Mary Wollstonecraft
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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
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Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathon Swift
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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.
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Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
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Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
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Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte – One of the most influential novels of 19th century British literature.
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Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The Complete Poetical Works of John Keats – John Keats
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Middlemarch – George Eliot
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Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
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She Stoops to Conquer – Oliver Goldsmith
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Evelina – Fanny Burney
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The Tatler and the Spectator – Addison and Steele
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