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Books of the 1870s

Tolstoy at his height: Anna Karenina was published between 1875 and 1877. James and Hardy were beginning their careers. The social novel was at its most ambitious. 28 titles in the catalogue from this decade.

Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy · 1877 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →

A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen · 1879 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →

The mystery of Edwin Drood Charles Dickens · 1870 Recommended Get it on Amazon →

Tent-life in Siberia and adventures among the Koraks and other tribes in Kamchatka and northern Asia George Kennan · 1870 Recommended See details →

Middlemarch George Eliot · 1871 Recommended See details →

The theory of political economy William Stanley Jevons · 1871 Recommended See details →

The descent of man Charles Darwin · 1871 Recommended See details →

Their Wedding Journey William Dean Howells · 1872 Recommended See details →

Lysistrata Aristophanes · 1872 Recommended See details →

The expression of emotions in man and animals Charles Darwin · 1872 Recommended See details →

Poor Miss Finch Wilkie Collins · 1872 Recommended See details →

What Katy Did Susan Coolidge · 1873 Recommended See details →

Autobiography John Stuart Mill · 1873 Recommended See details →

The Gilded Age Mark Twain · 1873 Recommended See details →

Eight cousins Louisa May Alcott · 1874 Recommended See details →

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy · 1874 Recommended See details →

Hans Brinker Mary Mapes Dodge · 1874 Recommended See details →

The Law and the Lady Wilkie Collins · 1875 Recommended See details →

The way we live now Anthony Trollope · 1875 Recommended See details →

The wise woman George MacDonald · 1875 Recommended See details →

The Hunting of the Snark Lewis Carroll · 1876 Recommended See details →

Rose in Bloom Louisa May Alcott · 1876 Recommended See details →

The American Henry James · 1877 Recommended See details →

Trois contes Gustave Flaubert · 1877 Recommended See details →

A Tramp Abroad Mark Twain · 1878 Recommended See details →

Under the Lilacs Louisa May Alcott · 1878 Recommended See details →

The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy · 1878 Recommended See details →

A strange disappearance Anna Katharine Green · 1879 Recommended See details →

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