1800s

Pere Goriot

1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honor de Balzac , included in the Scnes de la vie prive section of his novel sequence La Comdie humaine

Little Women

Coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott .
Originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869, Alcott wrote the book over several months at the request of her publisher

Mansfield Park

Third published novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1814 by Thomas Egerton

Sense and Sensibility

Novel by Jane Austen, published in 1811. It was published anonymously; By A Lady appears on the title page where the author’s name might have been

Flatland

Satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London

A Hero of Our Time

A Hero of Our Time (Russian: Герой нашего времени, tr. Gerój nášego vrémeni, IPA: [ɡʲɪˈroj ˈnaʂɨvə ˈvrʲemʲɪnʲɪ]) is a novel by Mikhail Lermontov, written in 1839, published in 1840, and revised in 1841. It is an example of the superfluous man novel, noted for its compelling Byronic hero (or antihero) Pechorin and for the beautiful …

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