Romantic Era
The Romantic Era is considered by scholars to have been between 1798 - 1870. It overlaps to some extent with the Victorian Era, Realism, Naturalism, Transcendentalism, and Existentialism.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, also known as Alice in Wonderland, written in 1865 by Lewis C..
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Andersen’s Fairy Tales
Andersen’s Fairy Tales is a collection of eighteen stories that includes such classics as "The Littl..
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Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
In an October 1939 radio broadcast Winston Churchill described his difficulty in understanding the a..
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Billy Budd, Sailor
In 1886, after writing poetry exclusively for 30 years, Herman Melville began work on a story about ..
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Carmilla
The Gothic novella Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu is one of the earliest works of vampire fiction a..
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an autobiographical account by Thomas de Quincey of his add..
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Democracy in America
In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont were sent by the French government to the Unit..
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Emma
Published in three volumes in 1815, Emma was the second to last of Jane Austen’s novels, and treats ..
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Faust
The theme of making a deal with the devil is one of the most enduring in all art forms. Most treatme..
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Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the wife of Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, is the author of the t..
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Grimm's Fairy Tales
Grimm’s Fairy Tales is a collection of German fairy tales first published by brothers Jacob and Wilh..
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Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre was written by Charlotte Bronte and published in 1847 under the pen name “Currer Bell”. It..
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Leaves of Grass
We forget how big America must have seemed to both Americans and Europeans in the nineteenth century..
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Mansfield Park
Fanny Price is the eldest daughter in a family of nine children struggling to get by on a naval offi..
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Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an epic sea adventure told by Ishmael, the sole survivor of the Pequod, ..
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Northanger Abbey
Northanger Abbey is one of the early novels of Jane Austen, the first to be submitted for publicatio..
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Persuasion
Jane Austen completed her last novel, Persuasion, in 1816, the year before her death in 1817 at the ..
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Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice, a novel of manners, was first published in 1813 and remains one of the best lov..
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Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen published Sense and Sensibility under the pseudonym, “A Lady” in 1811. It is an epistola..
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a collection of 45 poems by English poet William Blake. ..
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is the story of a child born in Baltimore in 1860 who has the ap..
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Hunchbacks. We stare. We cringe. We shudder. We think: the poor guy; glad that’s not me. Whether..
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Set in the autumn of 1790 in the secluded glen of Sleepy Hollow in the countryside near Tarrytown, N..
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Water, water, every where / Nor any drop to drink. We all know these lines. And we are all fa..
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Twelve Years A Slave
Twelve Years a Slave is a memoir by Solomon Northup, a black man who was born free in New York. The ..
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The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois is book everyone in America should read, a fundamental w..
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Up from Slavery
In his 1901 autobiography, Up from Slavery, Booker T. Washington chronicles his personal experiences..
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is the first and most popular of three memoirs Frederick..
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was one of the first books in the slave narrative genre that s..
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave reminds us that slavery at one time existed throu..
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Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
As owner and reporter for the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight Ida B. Wells investigated numerous a..
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, TO WIT: Be it remembered, That on this tenth day of November, Anno Domini, e..
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The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638 - 1870
The Suppression of the African Slave Trade is a fundamental work of African-American history that is..
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