19th Century Literature

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Works of literature from the 1800s.

See also Authors of the 19th Century. For drama, see 19th Century Theatre instead.

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Works:

• "An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street"
• "Adalmina's Pearl"
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• The Adventures of Pinocchio
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Agnes Grey
• The Alexander Afanasyev fairy tales:
  • "The Death of Koschei the Deathless"
  • "The Feather of Finist the Falcon"
  • "The Fire-Bird, the Horse of Power, and the Princess Vasilissa"
  • "The Frost, the Sun, and the Wind"
  • "Kolobok"
  • "Little Master Misery"
  • "Morozko"
  • "Prince Ivan, the Witch Baby, and the Little Sister of the Sun"
  • "The Soldier And Death"
  • "Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf"
  • "Tsarevich Petr and the Wizard"
  • "The Secret Ball"
  • "Vasilissa the Beautiful"
  • "The White Duck"
  • "The Wise Little Girl"
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• The Andrew Lang fairy tales:
  • "The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen"
  • "The Blue Bird"
  • "The Blue Mountains"
  • "Catherine and Her Fate"
  • "Drakestail"
  • "The Elf Maiden"
  • "The Grateful Beasts"
  • "Jesper Who Herded the Hares"
  • "The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate"
  • "The Nettle Spinner"
  • "The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples"
  • "The One-Handed Girl"
  • "The Princess on the Glass Hill"
  • "Prunella"
  • "Puddocky"
  • "The Ratcatcher"
  • "Schippeitaro"
  • "Soria Moria Castle"
  • "The Story of the Yara"
  • "The Troll's Daughter"
  • "The White Dove"
• The Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales:
  • The Emperor's New Clothes
  • The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf
  • The Little Match Girl
  • The Little Mermaid
  • The Nightingale
  • The Princess and the Pea
  • The Red Shoes
  • The Shadow
  • The Snow Queen
  • The Steadfast Tin Soldier
  • The Tinder Box
  • Thumbelina
  • The Ugly Duckling
• Anna Karenina
• Ardath
• A Rebours
• Around the World in Eighty Days
• Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
• The Artushof
• The Asbjørnsen and Moe fairy tales:
  • "Boots Who Made the Princess Say 'That's a Story!'"
  • "The Cat on the Dovrefell"
  • "East of the Sun and West of the Moon"
  • "The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body"
  • "Good Day, Fellow! Axe Handle!"
  • "Gullible Men and Mean Wives"
  • "The Old Dame and her Hen"
  • "The Princess on the Glass Hill"
  • "The Seven Foals"
  • "Soria Moria Castle"
  • "Tatterhood"
  • "The Three Aunts"
  • "Three Billy Goats Gruff"
  • "True and Untrue"
  • "The Twelve Wild Ducks"
• At the Back of the North Wind
• Auf zwei Planeten ("On Two Planets") by Kurd Laßwitz
• Avatar (Théophile Gautier)
• The Awakening
• The Battle of Life
• The Beetle
• The Begum's Millions
• The Belkin Tales
• Ben-Hur
• "Berenice"
• Between Two Loves
• Billy Budd
• The Birthmark
• The Black Arrow
• Black Beauty
• The Black Cat
• The Black Coats
• The Black Douglas
• The Black Spider
• Bleak House
• Le Bossu
• A Bouquet of Czech Folktales
• The Brothers Karamazov
• "The Brown Bear of the Green Glen"
• "The Brown Man"
• The Canterville Ghost
• Captains Courageous
• The Captain's Daughter
• Carmilla
• "Carnivorine"
• Casabianca
• Casey at the Bat
• "The Cask of Amontillado"
• "The Castle of the Vampire"
• Castle Rackrent
• C. Auguste Dupin series
• Les Chants de Maldoror
• The Charterhouse of Parma
• Chicken Little
• Child Ballads (a.k.a. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads)
  • The Famous Flower of Serving Men
  • Fause Foodrage
  • The Lord of Lorn and the False Steward
  • Sir Aldingar
  • Tam Lin
  • Willie's Lady
  • Young Beichan
• Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
• A Christmas Carol
• The Chronicles of Barsetshire
• The Coming Race
• The Confidence-Man
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
• The Coral Island
• Corinne, ou l'Italie
• The Corsican Brothers
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• The Courtship of Miles Standish
• Cousin Bette
• Creation Man And The Messiah
• Crime and Punishment
• Cudjo's Cave
• Daisy Miller
• La Dame de Monsoreau
• The Dancing Partner
• Daniel Deronda
• David Copperfield
• Darkness
• The Dead Leman
• Dead Souls
• Demons
• Le Dernier Homme (The Last Man)
• Diary of a Madman
• The Diary of a Madman
• Doctrine and Covenants
• A Dog of Flanders
• The Doll
• Dombey and Son
• Dom Casmurro
• Don Juan
• Dracula
• East of the Sun and West of the Moon
• Edison's Conquest of Mars
• Effi Briest
• "Egle, the Queen of Serpents"
• Eight Cousins
• Elsie Dinsmore series
• Emma
• Enoch Arden
• The Entail
• Eric, or Little by Little
• Eugene Onegin
• The Europeans
• The Eve of St. Agnes
• "Fair Brow"
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• Far from the Madding Crowd
• The Fate Of Fenella
• Feathertop
• Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
• El Filibusterismo
• Fathers and Sons
• Five Weeks in a Balloon
• Flatland
• Florante at Laura
• "The Four Travelers"
• Frankenstein
• From the Earth to the Moon
• Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan
• The Future Eve
• The Gadfly
• "Gemmalie"
• Gentlemen of the Night
• "The Ghoul (1873)"
• "The Ghoula"
• The Gingerbread Man
• The Glorious Resurrection
• Goblin Market
• The Golden Demon
• "Goldilocks"
• The Grandmother
• The Great Carbuncle
• Great Expectations
• The Great God Pan
• The Grey Man
• The Brothers Grimm fairy tales
  • "The Brave Little Tailor"
  • The Bremen Town Musicians
  • Briar Rose
  • Brother and Sister
  • "The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs"
  • The Elves and the Cobbler
  • Frau Trude
  • The Frog Prince
  • "Gambling Hansel"
  • Godfather Death
  • "The Golden Bird"
  • The Golden Goose
  • "The Gold Mountain"
  • The Goose Girl
  • The Grave Mound
  • "Hans the Hedgehog"
  • Hansel and Gretel
  • The Innocents Abroad
  • Iron Hans
  • "Jorinde and Joringel"
  • "The Juniper Tree"
  • "King Thrushbeard"
  • The Lazy Spinner
  • Little Red Riding Hood
  • "Maid Maleen"
  • "Mother Holle"
  • "The Nix in the Mill-Pond"
  • "One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes"
  • Rapunzel
  • Rumpelstiltskin
  • The Seven Ravens
  • "The Singing, Springing Lark"
  • The Six Servants
  • The Six Swans
  • Snow White
  • "The Star Money"
  • St. Joseph in the Forest
  • "The Table, the Donkey, and the Stick"
  • "The Three Little Men in the Wood"
  • "The Three Snake Leaves"
  • "The Two Brothers"
  • The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids
• Guy Mannering
• Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates
• The Happy Prince
• Hard Times
• Heart of Darkness
• Heidi
• A Hero of Our Time
• Hester
• The History of a Town
• The History of the Fairchild Family
• The Homunculus of Maimonides
• Hope Leslie
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• The Hunting of the Snark
• The Idiot
• Idylls of the King
• In Search of the Castaways
• The Invisible Man
• The Island of Doctor Moreau
• Ivanhoe
• Ivan Turbincă
• Jabberwocky
• John's Lily
• The fairy tales of Joseph Jacobs:
  • "The Black Bull of Norroway" ("East Of The Sun And West Of The Moon" variant)
  • "The Buried Moon"
  • "Cap o' Rushes"
  • "Catskin" (a "Cinderella" variant)
  • "Childe Rowland"
  • "Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree" (a variant on "Snow White")
  • "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
  • "How Jack Sought The Golden Apples"
  • "Jack and the Beanstalk"
  • "Kate Crackernuts" (a "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" gender flip)
  • "The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh"
  • "Molly Whuppie"
  • "My Own Self"
  • "The Rose Tree"
  • "The Swan Maidens"
  • "Tam Lin"
  • "Tattercoats"
  • "The Three Little Pigs"
  • "The Voyage of Maelduin"
• Jane Eyre
• John Barrington Cowles
• "John Charrington's Wedding"
• John Devil
• John The Valiant
• Journey to the Center of the Earth
• Jude the Obscure
• The Jungle Book
• The Kalevala
• Kalevipoeg
• The Kellys and the O'Kellys
• Kenilworth
• Kidnapped
• Kim
• The King in Yellow
• The King Of The Golden River
• King Solomon's Mines
• Knightshade
• Kubla Khan
• Lads Love
• Lady Audley's Secret
• The Lady of Shalott
• The Lady, or the Tiger?
• Lady Susan
• The Last Day of a Condemned Man
• The Last Man
• La Vendée
• The Law and the Lady
• Lay Down Your Arms
• The Leatherstocking Tales
• Leaves of Grass
• Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow
• The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
• Life in the Iron Mills
• The Light Princess
• Lilith (1895)
• Little Dorrit
• Little Lord Fauntleroy
• "Little Otik"
• Little Women
  • Little Men (Jo's Boys is included in this)
• Looking Backward
• The Lord of the Winds
• The Loreley
• The Lord of Bembibre
• Lorna Doone
• The Lost Princess
• Lot No 249
• Love and Freindship
• The Macdermots of Ballycloran
• Madame Bovary
• Mademoiselle de Scuderi
• "The Magic Mirror"
• Man and Wife
• "The Man of the Crowd"
• The Man Who Laughs
• The Man Without a Country
• Mansfield Park
• Martin Chuzzlewit
• Mary Barton
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The Master of Ballantrae
• Max and Moritz
• Max Havelaar
• The Magical Monarch of Mo
• The Mayor of Casterbridge
• The Maypole of Merry Mount
• Mc Teague
• Melmoth the Wanderer
• The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
• Michael Kohlhaas
• Michael Strogoff
• Middlemarch
• The Mill on the Floss
• The Mines of Falun
• Les Misérables
• Moby-Dick
• The Monastery
• The Monster of Lake LaMetrie
• The Moonstone
• The Mysterious Island
• The Mysterious Stranger
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood
• The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
• A Nameless Nobleman
• Nansō Satomi Hakkenden
• The Necklace
• "The Necklace Of Princess Fiorimonde"
• A New England Nun
• The New Job
• News from Nowhere
• Nicholas Nickleby
• Nínay
• No Name
• Nobody's Girl (En Famille)
• Noli Me Tangere
• North and South
• Northanger Abbey
• Notes from Underground
• The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
• Oblomov
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
• Oera Linda Book
• "Olalla"
• The Old Curiosity Shop
• Old Mortality
• Oliver Twist
• Orient Cycle
• Otto of the Silver Hand
• Our Mutual Friend
• Palliser novels
• "The Pavilion on the Links"
• The Pearl of Great Price
• Le Père Goriot
• Persuasion
• Peter Schlemihl The Shadowless Man
• La Petite Fadette
• Phantastes
• The Phantom Ship (1837)
  • "The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains"
• Pharaoh
• The Pickwick Papers
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Pippa Passes
• The Pirate
• The Pit and the Pendulum
• The Portrait of a Lady
• Povestea lui Harap Alb
• Pride and Prejudice
• The Prince and the Pauper
• "Prince Lindworm"
• The Princess and the Goblin
• The Princess and Curdie
• A Princetonian
• The Prisoner of Zenda
• The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
• A Problem
• The Professor
• The Queen of Spades
• Quo Vadis
• Raffles stories
• Ragged Dick
• The Raiders
• Ramona
• "Rappaccini's Daughter"
• "The Raven"
• The Red and the Black
• The Red Badge of Courage
• La Reine Margot
• The Reluctant Dragon
• The Return of the Native
• Rob Roy
• A Romance of Two Worlds
• Romance with a Double Bass
• Romola
• Ruslan and Ludmila
• Salammbô
• The Sandman (1816)
• Sandokan
• The Scarlet Flower
• The Scarlet Letter
• The fairy tales of Franz Xaver von Schönwerth:
  • "The Enchanted Quill"
  • "Follow Me, Jodel!"
  • "King Goldenlocks"
  • "Nine Bags Of Gold"
  • "The Three Flowers"
  • "The Turnip Princess"
• The Selfish Giant
• Selina Sedilia
• Sense and Sensibility
• Sentimental Education
• Some Serbian Epic Poetry
• Seven Brothers
• She
• Sherlock Holmes stories and novels
• Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
• The Shooting Party
• Sienkiewicz Trilogy
• Silas Marner
• Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
• Simon's Papa
• The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
  • "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
  • "Rip Van Winkle"
  • "The Spectre Bridegroom"
• The Sleeper Awakes (original title When the Sleeper Wakes)
• "Snow-White-Fire-Red"
• Sonnets from the Portuguese
• The Son's Veto
• The Sorrows of Satan
• The Spider and the Fly
• Stage-Land
• Stalky & Co.
• The Steam House
• Der Stechlin
• The Story of King Odd
• The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was
• The Story of Valentine and His Brother
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Striking and Picturesque Delineations
• The String of Pearls
• Struwwelpeter
• The Swiss Family Robinson
• The Sword of Saint Ferdinand
• Sylvie and Bruno
• The Tale of Kiều
• A Tale of Two Cities
• The Tales Of Ensign Stål
• The Tell-Tale Heart
• The Temptress
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
• A Terrible Vengeance
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles
• Thérèse Raquin
• Three Men in a Boat
• The Three Musketeers
• Through the Looking Glass
• The Time Machine
• Till Eulenspiegel by Charles de Coster
• Toldi
• Tom Brown's Schooldays
• Treasure Island
• Tribulations of a Chinaman in China
• Trilby
• The Tsars Window
• The Turn of the Screw
• 'Twas the Night Before Christmas
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• Typee
• Uarda
• "Uncle Cornelius His Story"
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Under The Lilacs
• Under Two Flags
• Undine
• The Unknown Sea (1898)
• Vanity Fair
• Vampire City
• The Vampire Countess
• The Vampyre
• Varney the Vampire
• Vendetta!
• Venus in Furs
• Villette
• Viy
• War and Peace
• The War of the Worlds
• Washington Square
• The Water-Babies
• Waverley
• The Way We Live Now
• The Well at the World's End
• "The Were-Wolf (1890)"
• What Katy Did and its sequels
• What Maisie Knew
• The White Company
• A White Heron
• The White Old Maid
• The White People
• "Whuppity Stoorie"
• William Wilson
• Winnetou novels
• "A Winter Amid the Ice"
• "The Witch (1896)"
• Wives and Daughters
• The Woman in White
• The Woman Of Colour
• The Woman with the Velvet Necklace
• The Wreck of the Hesperus
• Wuthering Heights
• Wylder's Hand
• Les Xipéhuz
• The Yellow Wallpaper
• The Young Visiters
• Youth

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