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Books of the 1890s

The decade before modernism: Wilde, Wells, Kipling, Chekhov, Gissing. The certainties of the Victorian era were beginning to crack — the literature knew it first. 60 titles in the catalogue from this decade.

The Sign of Four Arthur Conan Doyle · 1890 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy · 1891 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle · 1892 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1892 Essential Read See details →
Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy · 1895 Essential Read See details →
Dracula Bram Stoker · 1897 Editor's Choice See details →
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad · 1899 Essential Read See details →
The Awakening Kate Chopin · 1899 Essential Read See details →
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde · 1890 Recommended See details →
The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle · 1890 Recommended See details →
The Red Fairy Book Andrew Lang · 1890 Recommended See details →
Five Little Peppers Midway Margaret Sidney · 1890 Recommended See details →
The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II Emily Dickinson · 1890 Recommended See details →
Hedda Gabler Henrik Ibsen · 1890 Recommended See details →
Sult Knut Hamsun · 1890 Recommended See details →
At Fault Kate Chopin · 1890 Recommended See details →
Beatrice H. Rider Haggard · 1890 Recommended See details →
The little minister J. M. Barrie · 1890 Recommended See details →
News from nowhere, or, An epoch of rest, being some chapters from a utopian romance William Morris · 1890 Recommended See details →
The Dolly dialogues Anthony Hope · 1890 Recommended See details →
Mutual Aid Peter Kropotkin · 1891 Recommended See details →
Textplus - New Grub Street George Gissing · 1891 Recommended See details →
Life's handicap, being stories of mine own people Rudyard Kipling · 1891 Recommended See details →
Main-travelled roads Hamlin Garland · 1891 Recommended See details →
The Green Fairy Book Andrew Lang · 1892 Recommended See details →
The Well at the World's End William Morris · 1892 Recommended See details →
The Barrack-Room Ballads of Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling · 1892 Recommended See details →
Montezuma's daughter H. Rider Haggard · 1893 Recommended See details →
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling · 1893 Recommended See details →
A Woman of No Importance Oscar Wilde · 1893 Recommended See details →
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Rudyard Kipling · 1893 Recommended See details →
De la division du travail social Émile Durkheim · 1893 Recommended See details →
Plato and Platonism Walter Pater · 1893 Recommended See details →
Bel-Ami Guy de Maupassant · 1893 Recommended See details →
Maggie, a girl of the streets Stephen Crane · 1893 Recommended See details →
Wulf the Saxon G. A. Henty · 1894 Recommended See details →
The Yellow Fairy Book Andrew Lang · 1894 Recommended See details →
The Book of the Dead E. A. Wallis Budge · 1894 Recommended See details →
Trilby George du Maurier · 1894 Recommended See details →
The Time Machine H.G. Wells · 1895 Recommended See details →
The story of the other wise man Henry van Dyke · 1895 Recommended See details →
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Dante Gabriel Rossetti · 1895 Recommended See details →
Little rivers Henry van Dyke · 1895 Recommended See details →
Quo Vadis? Powieść z czasów Nerona Henryk Sienkiewicz · 1895 Recommended See details →
The red true story book Henry Justice Ford · 1895 Recommended See details →
Rodney Stone Arthur Conan Doyle · 1896 Recommended See details →
The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard Arthur Conan Doyle · 1896 Recommended See details →
The damnation of Theron Ware, or, Illumination Harold Frederic · 1896 Recommended See details →
The Pink Fairy Book Andrew Lang · 1897 Recommended See details →
Tom Sawyer, Detective Mark Twain · 1897 Recommended See details →
The pursuit of God A. W. Tozer · 1897 Recommended See details →
The War of the Worlds H.G. Wells · 1898 Recommended See details →
Elizabeth and Her German Garden Elizabeth von Arnim · 1898 Recommended See details →
David Harum Edward Noyes Westcott · 1898 Recommended See details →
Dream days Kenneth Grahame · 1898 Recommended See details →
Stalky and Co Rudyard Kipling · 1898 Recommended See details →
The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen · 1899 Recommended See details →
Fields, Factories, and Workshops Peter Kropotkin · 1899 Recommended See details →
Memoirs of a Revolutionist Peter Kropotkin · 1899 Recommended See details →
McTeague Frank Norris · 1899 Recommended See details →

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