Ake
Archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization
1800s
Eugene Onegin
Eugene Onegin (pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform Russian: , tr. Yevgeniy Onegin, IPA: [jvenj nen]) is a novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin. Onegin is considered a classic of Russian literature, and its eponymous protagonist has served as the model for a number of Russian literary heroes (so-called superfluous men). It was published in serial …
The Birth of Tragedy
1872 work of dramatic theory by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche
France and England in North America
Multi-volume history of the European colonization of North America, written by Francis Parkman and published between 1865 and 1892, which highlights the military struggles between France and Great Britain
Moby-Dick
1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville
The Piazza Tales
Collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published by Dix & Edwards in the United States in May 1856 and in Britain in June
The Metaphysical Club
Conversational philosophical club that the future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., the philosopher and psychologist William James, and philosophers John Dewey and Charles Sanders Peirce formed in January 1872 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and dissolved in December 1872
The Aspern Papers
Novella by American writer Henry James, originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1888, with its first book publication later in the same year
Les Miserables
French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century
Oblomov
Second novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is the central character of the novel, portrayed as the ultimate incarnation of the superfluous man, a symbolic character in 19th-century Russian literature