Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams 1918

Matthew Arnold

Essays in Criticism 1865

Honoré de Balzac

The Quest of the Absolute 1834

William Blake

The Four Zoas 1797

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre 1847

Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights 1848

Thomas Carlyle

Sartor Resartus 1833-34

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays 1873

Rebecca Harding Davis

Life in the Iron Mills 1861

Charles Dickens

Bleak House 1853

Hard Times 1854

Benjamin Disraeli

Coningsby 1844

Sybil, or The Two Nations 1845

Tancred 1847

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature 1836

Elizabeth Gaskell

North and South 1855

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mosses from an Old Manse 1846

Thomas Huxley

Science and Culture and Other Essays 1881

Thomas Jefferson

Notes on Virginia 1785

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick 1844

The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860

John Stuart Mill

On Liberty 1859

Friedrich Schiller

Letters upon the Aesthetical Education of Man 1795

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein 1818

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Defence of Poetry 1840

W. M. Thackeray

Vanity Fair 1847

Henry David Thoreau

Waiden 1854

Mark Twain

The Gilded Age 1873

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1889

Walt Whitman

Democratic Vistas 1871

Leaves of Grass 1855, 1856, 1860-61, 1867, 1871, 1876, 1881-82, 1888, 1891-2

William Wordsworth

Preface to the Second Edition of "Lyrical Ballads " 1800