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| Date | Title | Author | Country | Type | |||||||
| 1802 | Delphine | Madame de Stael | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1804 | William Tell | Friedrich Schiller | Germany | Drama | |||||||
| 1805 | René | François René de Chateaubriand | France | Novel | |||||||
| The Marquise of O... | Heinrich von Kleist | Germany | Story | ||||||||
| 1807 | Poems | William Wordsworth | England | Poetry | |||||||
| 1808-32 | Faust | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Germany | Drama | |||||||
| 1810 | The Lady of the Lake | Walter Scott | Scotland | Poetry | |||||||
| 1812 | Poems | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Germany | Poetry | |||||||
| 1812-57 | Grimm’s Fairy Tales | Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm | Germany | Stories | |||||||
| 1813 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | England | Novel | |||||||
| Swiss Family Robinson | Johann David Wyss | Switzer. | Novel | ||||||||
| 1814 | Waverly | Walter Scott | Scotland | Novel | |||||||
| Mansfield Park | Jane Austen | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1815 | Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1815-16 | The Devil's Elixir | E.T.A. Hoffmann | Germany | Novel | |||||||
| 1816 | Kubla Khan | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | England | Poem | |||||||
| Emma | Jane Austen | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1818 | Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen | England | Novel | |||||||
| Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage | George Gordon Byron | England | Poetry | ||||||||
| Endymion | John Keats | England | Poetry | ||||||||
| Nightmare Abbey | Thomas Love Peacock | England | Novel | ||||||||
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | England | Novel | ||||||||
| Ozmandias | Percy Bysshe Shelley | England | Poem | ||||||||
| 1819 | Ivanhoe | Walter Scott | Scotland | Novel | |||||||
| Rip Van Winkle | Washington Irving | USA | Story | ||||||||
| 1819-24 | Don Juan | George Gordon Byron | England | Poetry | |||||||
| 1820 | Odes | John Keats | England | Poetry | |||||||
| Prometheus Unbound | Percy Byssche Shelley | England | Poetry | ||||||||
| Melmouth the Wanderer | Charles Maturin | Ireland | Novel | ||||||||
| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Washington Irving | USA | Story | ||||||||
| 1821 | Prince Friedrich of Homburg | Heinrich von Kleist | Germany | Drama | |||||||
| Poems | William Cullen Bryant | USA | Poetry | ||||||||
| 1825 | Diary | Samuel Pepys | England | Diary | |||||||
| Boris Godunov | Alexander Pushkin | Russia | Poetry | ||||||||
| Eugene Onegin | Alexander Pushkin | Russia | Poetry | ||||||||
| The Talisman | Walter Scott | Scotland | Novel | ||||||||
| 1825-42 | The Betrothed | Alessandro Manzoni | Italy | Novel | |||||||
| 1826 | The Last of the Mohicans | James Fennimore Cooper | USA | Novel | |||||||
| 1827 | Book of Songs | Heinrich Heine | Germany | Poetry | |||||||
| 1831 | Queen Margot | Alexandre Dumas | France | Drama | |||||||
| Scarlet and Black | Stendhal | France | Novel | ||||||||
| Notre Dame de Paris | Victor-Marie Hugo | France | Novel | ||||||||
| 1831-35 | Canti | Giacomo Leopardi | Italy | Poetry | |||||||
| 1833 | Eugénie Grandet | Honoré de Balzac | France | Novel | |||||||
| Lélia | George Sand | France | Novel | ||||||||
| 1834 | Old Goriot | Honoré de Balzac | France | Novel | |||||||
| The Last Days of Pompeii | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1835 | Chatterton | Alfred de Vigny | France | Drama | |||||||
| Young Goodman Brown | Nathaniel Hawthorne | USA | Story | ||||||||
| 1836 | The Government Inspector | Nikolai Gogol | Russia | Drama | |||||||
| 1837 | Twice-Told Tales | Nathaniel Hawthorne | USA | Stories | |||||||
| 1839 | The Charterhouse of Parma | Stendhal | France | Novel | |||||||
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1840 | A Hero of Our Time | Mikhail Lermontov | Russia | Novel | |||||||
| Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque | Edgar Allan Poe | USA | Stories | ||||||||
| 1841 | The Murders in the Rue Morgue | Edgar Allan Poe | USA | Story | |||||||
| The Deerslayer | James Fennimore Cooper | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1842 | My Last Duchess | Robert Browning | England | Poem | |||||||
| Dead Souls | Nikolai Gogol | Russia | Novel | ||||||||
| The Demon | Mikhail Lermontov | Russia | Poem | ||||||||
| 1843 | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | England | Novella | |||||||
| 1843-47 | A Harlot High and Low | Honoré de Balzac | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1844 | Poems | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | England | Poetry | |||||||
| The Luck of Barry Lyndon | William Makepeace Thackeray | England | Novel | ||||||||
| The Count of Monte-Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | France | Novel | ||||||||
| 1845 | The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas | France | Novel | |||||||
| Carmen | Prosper Mérimée | France | Novel | ||||||||
| The Raven and Other Poems | Edgar Allan Poe | USA | Poetry | ||||||||
| 1846 | Cousin Bette | Honoré de Balzac | France | Novel | |||||||
| The Devil's Pool | George Sand | France | Novel | ||||||||
| The Man in the Iron Mask | Alexandre Dumas | France | Novel | ||||||||
| The Cask of Amontillado | Edgar Allan Poe | USA | Story | ||||||||
| 1846-63 | The Book of Nonsense | Edward Lear | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1847 | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | England | Novel | |||||||
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | England | Novel | ||||||||
| Evangeline | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | USA | Poetry | ||||||||
| 1848 | Mary Barton | Elizabeth Gaskell | England | Novel | |||||||
| Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1850 | Poems | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | England | Poetry | |||||||
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | England | Novel | ||||||||
| In Memoriam | Alfred Lord Tennyson | England | Poetry | ||||||||
| The Prelude | William Woodsworth | England | Poetry | ||||||||
| The Black Tulip | Alexandre Dumas | France | Novel | ||||||||
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1851 | Moby Dick | Herman Melville | USA | Novel | |||||||
| 1852 | Camille | Alexandre Dumas (fils) | France | Drama | |||||||
| Enamels and Cameos | Théophile Gautier | France | Poetry | ||||||||
| A Sportsman’s Sketches | Ivan Turgenev | Russia | Novel | ||||||||
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1853 | Les Chatiments | Victor-Marie Hugo | France | Novel | |||||||
| Bleak House | Charles Dickens | England | Novel | ||||||||
| Bartleby the Scrivener | Herman Melville | USA | Story | ||||||||
| 1854 | Hard Times | Charles Dickens | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1855 | Men and Women | Robert Browning | England | Poetry | |||||||
| North and South | Elizabeth Gaskell | England | Novel | ||||||||
| The Warden | Anthony Trollope | England | Novel | ||||||||
| Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman | USA | Poetry | ||||||||
| 1857 | Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | France | Novel | |||||||
| The Flowers of Evil | Charles Baudelaire | France | Poetry | ||||||||
| Barchester Towers | Anthony Trollope | England | Novel | ||||||||
| Little Dorrit | Charles Dickens | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1859 | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | England | Novel | |||||||
| Idylls of the King | Alfred Lord Tennyson | England | Poetry | ||||||||
| The Virginians | William Makepeace Thackeray | England | Novel | ||||||||
| Oblomov | Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov | Russia | Novel | ||||||||
| 1860 | The Storm | Alexander Ostrovsky | Russia | Drama | |||||||
| The Mill on the Floss | George Eliot | England | Novel | ||||||||
| The Woman in White | Wilkie Collins | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1861 | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | England | Novel | |||||||
| Silas Marner | George Eliot | England | Novel | ||||||||
| 1862 | Goblin Market and Other Poems | Christina Rossetti | England | Poetry | |||||||
| Les Miserables | Victor-Marie Hugo | France | Novel | ||||||||
| Fathers and Sons | Ivan Turgenev | Russia | Novel | ||||||||
| 1864 | A Journey to the Centre of the Earth | Jules Verne | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1865 | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1865-69 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | Russia | Novel | |||||||
| 1866 | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevski | Russia | Novel | |||||||
| Poems and Ballads | Algernon Swinburne | England | Poetry | ||||||||
| 1867 | Peer Gynt | Henrik Ibsen | Norway | Drama | |||||||
| 1868 | The Moonstone | Wilkie Collins | England | Novel | |||||||
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1868-70 | The Earthly Paradise | William Morris | England | Poetry | |||||||
| 1869 | Lorna Doone | Richard Blackmore | England | Novel | |||||||
| Phineas Finn | Anthony Trollope | England | Novel | ||||||||
| A Sentimental Education | Gustave Flaubert | France | Novel | ||||||||
| Collected Poems | Matthew Arnold | England | Poetry | ||||||||
| 1870 | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1870-81 | The House of Life | Dante Gabriel Rosetti | England | Poetry | |||||||
| 1871 | Through the Looking-Glass | Lewis Carroll | England | Novel | |||||||
| 1872 | Fairy Tales and Stories | Hans Christian Andersen | Denmark | Stories | |||||||
| Erewhon | Samuel Butler | England | Novel | ||||||||
| Middlemarch | George Eliot | England | Novel | ||||||||
| The Possessed | Fyodor Dostoyevski | Russia | Novel | ||||||||
| 1873 | Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne | France | Novel | |||||||
| A Season in Hell | Arthur Rimbaud | France | Poetry | ||||||||
| 1874 | L’Après-midi d’un faune | Stéphane Mallarmé | France | Poetry | |||||||
| Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy | England | Novel | ||||||||
| The Idiot | Fyodor Dostoyevski | Russia | Novel | ||||||||
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | Russia | Novel | ||||||||
| 1876 | Daniel Deronda | George Eliot | England | Novel | |||||||
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1879 | Daisy Miller | Henry James | England | Novel | |||||||
| The Egoist | George Meredith | England | Novel | ||||||||
| Jacques Vingtras | Jules Valles | France | Novel | ||||||||
| A Doll’s House | Henrik Ibsen | Norway | Drama | ||||||||
| 1880 | Nana | Émile Zola | France | Novel | |||||||
| The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoyevski | Russia | Novel | ||||||||
| Ben-Hur | Lew Wallace | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1881 | Sagesse | Paul Verlaine | France | Poetry | |||||||
| 1882 | Ismaelillo | José Marti | Cuba | Poetry | |||||||
| 1883 | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | Scotland | Novel | |||||||
| 1884 | Cavalleria Rusticana | Giovanni Verga | Italy | Novel | |||||||
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1885 | Germinal | Émile Zola | France | Novel | |||||||
| 1886 | The Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy | England | Novel | |||||||
| The Death of Ivan Ilyich | Leo Tolstoy | Russia | Novella | ||||||||
| Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson | Scotland | Novel | ||||||||
| Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | Scotland | Novella | ||||||||
| 1887 | Poésies | Stéphane Mallarmé | France | Poetry | |||||||
| The Father | August Strindberg | Sweden | Drama | ||||||||
| 1889 | Three Men in a Boat | Jerome K. Jerome | England | Novel | |||||||
| The Master of Ballantrae | Robert Louis Stevenson | Scotland | Novel | ||||||||
| Miss Julie | August Strindberg | Sweden | Drama | ||||||||
| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court | Mark Twain | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1890 | Poems | Emily Dickinson | USA | Poetry | |||||||
| 1891 | Tess of the D’Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy | England | Novel | |||||||
| News from Nowhere | William Morris | England | Novel | ||||||||
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | England | Novel | ||||||||
| Hedda Gabler | Henrik Ibsen | Norway | Drama | ||||||||
| An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | Ambrose Bierce | USA | Story | ||||||||
| 1892 | Pelleas and Melisande | Maurice Maeterlinck | Belgium | Drama | |||||||
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle | England | Stories | ||||||||
| The Diary of a Nobody | George and Weedon Grossmith | England | Novel | ||||||||
| Ward Number Six | Anton Chekhov | Russia | Story | ||||||||
| The Yellow Wallpaper | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | USA | Story | ||||||||
| 1893 | The Master Builder | Henrik Ibsen | Norway | Drama | |||||||
| The Second Mrs. Tanqueray | Arthur Wing Pinero | England | Drama | ||||||||
| 1894 | Arms and the Man | George Bernard Shaw | Ireland | Drama | |||||||
| Esther Waters | George Moore | Ireland | Novel | ||||||||
| The Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling | England | Stories | ||||||||
| Tevye Stories | Sholom Aleichem | Ukraine | Stories | ||||||||
| 1895 | The Importance of Being Ernest | Oscar Wilde | England | Drama | |||||||
| The Time Machine | H.G. Wells | England | Novel | ||||||||
| Effi Briest | Theodor Fontane | Germany | Novel | ||||||||
| Lilith | George MacDonald | Scotland | Novel | ||||||||
| The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| 1895-99 | Poems | W.B. Yeats | Ireland | Poetry | |||||||
| 1896 | The Sea Gull | Anton Chekhov | Russia | Drama | |||||||
| Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy | England | Novel | ||||||||
| The Bostonians | Henry James | England | Novel | ||||||||
| A Shropshire Lad | Alfred E. Housman | England | Poetry | ||||||||
| 1897 | Dracula | Bram Stoker | Ireland | Novel | |||||||
| 1898 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Edmond Rostand | France | Drama | |||||||
| The War of the Worlds | H.G. Wells | England | Novel | ||||||||
| The Open Boat | Stephen Crane | USA | Story | ||||||||
| The Turn of the Screw | Henry James | USA | Novella | ||||||||
| 1899 | Hunger | Knut Hamsun | Norway | Novel | |||||||
| 1900 | Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad | England | Novel | |||||||
| Uncle Vanya | Anton Chekhov | Russia | Drama | ||||||||
| Sister Carrie | Theodore Dreiser | USA | Novel | ||||||||
| Monsieur Beaucaire | Booth Tarkington | USA | Novel | ||||||||
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