What is your fav books of the 1890s?

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[Amber]

Tolstoy, Father Sergius
Kate Chopin, The Awakening
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Turn of the Screw

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Damn, I forgot Jude the Obscure...possibly partly because I was trying to limit the selection. I deliberately omitted poetry and factual works but there's no reason people can't nominate them!

[Iris]

Heart of Darkness
The Importance of Being Earnest

[Kim]

Heart of Darkness

Should always be read alongside this: Chinua Achebe: "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness'"

[Amber]

+ Drama > Shaw, The Devil's Disciple; Strindberg, Miss Julie
Not so much into poetry ...but let's say Swinburne and D'Annunzio from that period

[Absurd]

None of them.

[Capitalist Pig]

I voted The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds because, of all the books listed, only those 2 have I read. Haven't had a chance to get my hands on a copy of The Invisible Man yet. H.G. Wells kicked ass.

[squirreltual]

+ The Golden Bough

[Iris]

Should always be read alongside this: Chinua Achebe: "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness'"

Interesting article about racism in Heart of Darkness. It is disturbing when you encounter racism in older literature. I would call it the condescending variety of racism in HOD. Once at a thrift shop, I bought a beautifully bound old book about Vienna that was written in 1904. I was excited about my find, until I started reading it. Almost immediately, the author began a scathing description of the Jews and the Jewish ghettos in Vienna with such obvious hatred. For me, it was a glimpse at the mentality that allowed the holocaust.

[Whoobie77]

Dracula's a pretty good book.

"The stake on which we fight is of balanced on life and death"- Van Helsing (paraphrase)

I feel like a simpleton for having read barely any of these.

EDIT: Also, I like how "Otter" is a choice.

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It's my view that the 1890s were a rather rubbish time for literature and that even the H.G. Wells books can seem dated and somewhat tame. I would probably choose a Wilde or an Ibsen or the after-mentioned Jude the Obscure.