Favorite pre-twentieth century works

Explore a curated list of favorite pre-twentieth century books, featuring timeless classics and literary masterpieces that shaped history. Discover must-read works from renowned authors before the 1900s.

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William Shakespeare

 

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The Major Works

by William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth, the Major Works presents a selection of Wordsworth's essays and a collection of his major poems. The study includes recommended additional reading and …
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The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake

by William Blake

Since its first publication in 1965, this edition has been widely hailed as the best available text of Blake's poetry and prose. Now revised, if …
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The major works

 

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Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

The Congo diary is an enduring portrait of the ugliness of colonialism.
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Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

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Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into the cabin he had built on the shore of Walden Pond, thus beginning the most famous …
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Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world …
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Oxford Annotated Bible

by MICHAEL D. COOGAN

The new edition includes a full index to all of the study material (not just to the annotations), and one that is keyed to page …
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The Riverside Chaucer

by Geoffrey Chaucer

This edition provides the general information on Chaucer's life, language, and works that one needs for a first reading of Chaucer, and difficult words and …
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Candide

by Francois Voltaire

"All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds" It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this "optimism" concealed which …
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Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of …
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