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Books of the 1900s

Edwardian confidence, with an undertow of doubt. Conrad at sea and in the Congo; James in his final phase; Wharton documenting New York's gilded world. A hinge decade. 114 titles in the catalogue from this decade.

The Call of the Wild Jack London · 1903 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov · 1904 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton · 1905 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum · 1900 Recommended See details →
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man James Weldon Johnson · 1900 Recommended See details →
The old wives' tale Arnold Bennett · 1900 Recommended See details →
Up from Slavery Booker T. Washington · 1900 Recommended See details →
The Magic of Thinking Big David Joseph Schwartz · 1900 Recommended See details →
Lady Chatterley's Lover D. H. Lawrence · 1900 Recommended See details →
The Book of Tea Okakura Kakuzō · 1900 Recommended See details →
The Prophet Kahlil Gibran · 1900 Recommended See details →
The Railway Children Edith Nesbit · 1900 Recommended See details →
The Scarlet Pimpernel Emma Orczy · 1900 Recommended See details →
The Classic Tale of the Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams Bianco · 1900 Recommended See details →
The Grey Fairy Book Andrew Lang · 1900 Recommended See details →
My Cousin Rachel Daphne du Maurier · 1900 Recommended See details →
Semilla del Diablo Ira Levin · 1900 Recommended See details →
Lord Jim Joseph Conrad · 1900 Recommended See details →
Trent's Last Case E. C. Bentley · 1900 Recommended See details →
A Modern Utopia H. G. Wells · 1900 Recommended See details →
A Study of History Arnold J. Toynbee · 1900 Recommended See details →
Del sentimiento trágico de la vida en los hombres y en los pueblos Miguel de Unamuno · 1900 Recommended See details →
Philosophical essays concerning human understanding David Hume · 1900 Recommended See details →
State and Revolution Vladimir Il’ich Lenin · 1900 Recommended See details →
Canti Giacomo Leopardi · 1900 Recommended See details →
Piers Plowman William Langland · 1900 Recommended See details →
Jean-Christophe Romain Rolland · 1900 Recommended See details →
South Wind - Norman Douglas Norman Douglas · 1900 Recommended See details →
The Problems of Philosophy Bertrand Russell · 1900 Recommended See details →
The house behind the cedars Charles Waddell Chesnutt · 1900 Recommended See details →
Green Mansions W. H. Hudson · 1900 Recommended See details →
I Will Repay Emma Orczy · 1900 Recommended See details →
Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini · 1900 Recommended See details →
The half-hearted John Buchan · 1900 Recommended See details →
The food of the gods and how it came to earth H. G. Wells · 1900 Recommended See details →
How to live on 24 hours a day Arnold Bennett · 1900 Recommended See details →
Nonsense novels Stephen Leacock · 1900 Recommended See details →
Queen Lucia E. F. Benson · 1900 Recommended See details →
The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories] Arthur Conan Doyle · 1900 Recommended See details →
The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter · 1900 Recommended See details →
The heart of a goof P. G. Wodehouse · 1900 Recommended See details →
The man from Snowy River Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson · 1900 Recommended See details →
Acres of diamonds Russell Herman Conwell · 1901 Recommended See details →
The Wouldbegoods Edith Nesbit · 1901 Recommended See details →
Kim Rudyard Kipling · 1901 Recommended See details →
Unpopular Essays Bertrand Russell · 1901 Recommended See details →
Number the Stars Lois Lowry · 1901 Recommended See details →
The Longest Day Cornelius Ryan · 1901 Recommended See details →
Alfred Tennyson Andrew Lang · 1901 Recommended See details →
Revelations of divine love, recorded by Julian, anchoress at Norwich, A.D. 1373 Julian of Norwich · 1901 Recommended See details →
The Crisis Winston Churchill · 1901 Recommended See details →
Casey At the Bat Ernest Lawrence Thayer · 1901 Recommended See details →
The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle · 1902 Recommended See details →
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment and Other Stories Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1902 Recommended See details →
The Crimson Fairy Book Andrew Lang · 1903 Recommended See details →
The Enchanted Island of Yew L. Frank Baum · 1903 Recommended See details →
The Ambassadors Henry James · 1903 Recommended See details →
The Souls of Black Folk W. E. B. Du Bois · 1903 Recommended See details →
The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers · 1903 Recommended See details →
The Land of Little Rain Mary Austin · 1903 Recommended See details →
The Pit Frank Norris · 1903 Recommended See details →
Betty Zane Zane Grey · 1903 Recommended See details →
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes - Volume Five Edgar Allan Poe · 1903 Recommended See details →
The Brown Fairy Book Andrew Lang · 1904 Recommended See details →
The Napoleon of Notting Hill Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1904 Recommended See details →
The Bobbsey Twins Laura Lee Hope · 1904 Recommended See details →
Seven Pillars of Wisdom T. E. Lawrence · 1905 Recommended See details →
A Room with a View E. M. Forster · 1905 Recommended See details →
A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1905 Recommended See details →
Heretics Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1905 Recommended See details →
White Fang Jack London · 1905 Recommended See details →
The Four Just Men Edgar Wallace · 1905 Recommended See details →
The plays of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde · 1905 Recommended See details →
The Freedom of Life Annie Payson Call · 1905 Recommended See details →
A Thief in the Night E. W. Hornung · 1905 Recommended See details →
The Gods of Pegāna Lord Dunsany · 1905 Recommended See details →
The Mirror of Kong Ho Ernest Bramah · 1905 Recommended See details →
The Game Jack London · 1905 Recommended See details →
Works (46) William Shakespeare · 1905 Recommended See details →
Collected papers Sigmund Freud · 1906 Recommended See details →
The Aran Islands J. M. Synge · 1906 Recommended See details →
The Orange Fairy Book Andrew Lang · 1906 Recommended See details →
The Spirit of the Border Zane Grey · 1906 Recommended See details →
The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories Algernon Blackwood · 1906 Recommended See details →
Journal Henry David Thoreau · 1906 Recommended See details →
Coniston Winston Churchill · 1906 Recommended See details →
Thought Vibration Or, The Law of Attraction in the Thought World William Walker Atkinson · 1906 Recommended See details →
Adventures in Contentment David Grayson · 1907 Recommended See details →
The Enchanted Castle Edith Nesbit · 1907 Recommended See details →
The Hill of Dreams Arthur Machen · 1907 Recommended See details →
The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe · 1907 Recommended See details →
The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad · 1907 Recommended See details →
The Intermediate Sex Edward Carpenter · 1907 Recommended See details →
Phänomenologie des Geistes Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 1907 Recommended See details →
The Longest Journey E. M. Forster · 1907 Recommended See details →
The ghost Arnold Bennett · 1907 Recommended See details →
The Iron Heel Jack London · 1907 Recommended See details →
The Olive Fairy Book (Complete & Unabridged) Andrew Lang · 1907 Recommended See details →
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame · 1908 Recommended See details →
A Mind That Found Itself Clifford Whittingham Beers · 1908 Recommended See details →
Pluralistic Universe William James · 1908 Recommended See details →
SPIRITS REBELLIOUS Kahlil Gibran · 1908 Recommended See details →
The Man Who Was Thursday Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1908 Recommended See details →
The Elusive Pimpernel (Scarlet Pimpernel) Emma Orczy · 1908 Recommended See details →
The Circular Staircase Mary Roberts Rinehart · 1908 Recommended See details →
The Old Man in the Corner Emma Orczy · 1908 Recommended See details →
Reincarnation and the Law of Karma William Walker Atkinson · 1908 Recommended See details →
Practical Mental Influence William Walker Atkinson · 1908 Recommended See details →
The Angel and the Author Jerome Klapka Jérôme · 1908 Recommended See details →
Anne of Avonlea Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1909 Recommended See details →
The Road to Oz L. Frank Baum · 1909 Recommended See details →
The Man in Lower Ten Mary Roberts Rinehart · 1909 Recommended See details →
A Girl of the Limberlost Gene Stratton-Porter · 1909 Recommended See details →
Three Lives Gertrude Stein · 1909 Recommended See details →

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