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Books of the 1820s

Poetry still dominated, but the novel was becoming the most important form. Keats and Shelley died young; the Romantic inheritance was already being questioned. 7 titles in the catalogue from this decade.

Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand · 1821 Recommended Get it on Amazon →

Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 1821 Recommended Get it on Amazon →

Diary Samuel Pepys · 1825 Recommended Get it on Amazon →

The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper · 1826 Recommended See details →

The Birds of America John James Audubon · 1827 Recommended See details →

Fanshawe Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1828 Recommended See details →

The boy's own book William Clarke · 1828 Recommended See details →

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