Reading in the 1890s
Abraham Lincoln: A History. John Hay and John G. Nicolay
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle
The Awakening. Kate Chopin
Captains Courageous. Rudyard Kipling
The Country of the Pointed Firs. Sarah Orne Jewett
Dracula. Bram Stoker
The Golden Bough. James George Frazer
How the Other Half Lives. Jacob August Riis
The Importance of Being Earnest. Oscar Wilde
In Darkest Africa. Henry Morton Stanley
The Jungle Book. Rudyard Kipling
McTeague. Frank Norris
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. Stephen Crane
A Message to Garcia. Elbert Hubbard
Outlines of a Critical Theory of Ethics. John Dewey
The Picture of Dorian Gray. Oscar Wilde
Prairie Folks. Hamlin Garland
The Principles of Psychology. William James
The Prisoner of Zenda. Anthony Hope
Quo Vadis. Henryk Sienkiewicz
Red Badge of Courage. Stephen Crane
Rhymes of Childhood. James Whitcomb Riley
Sonnets and Other Verses. George Santayana
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. Ambrose Bierce
Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Thomas Hardy
The Theory of the Leisure Class. Thorstein Veblen
The Time Machine. H.G. Wells
The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson. “Mark Twain”
Uncle Vanya. Anton Chekhov
A Waif of the Plains. Bret Harte
The War of the Worlds. H.G. Wells