Reflections on the Revolution in France Burke   1790   127

Rights of Man Paine   1791   129

The Life of Samuel Johnson Boswell   1791   131

Lyrical Ballads Wordsworth   1798   133

A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty Irving   1809   135

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Byron   1812   137

Pride and Prejudice Austen   1813   139

Christabel Coleridge   1816   141

Ivanhoe Scott   1820   143

Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems Keats   1820   145

Adonais Shelley   1821   147

Elia Lamb   1823   149

Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F.R.S. Pepys   1825   151

The Last of the Mohicans Cooper   1826   153

Pericles and Aspasia Landor   1836   155

The Pickwick Papers Dickens   1837   157

Sartor Resartus Carlyle   1834   159

Nature Emerson   1836   161

History of the Conquest of Peru Prescott   1847   163

The Raven and Other Poems Poe   1845   165

Jane Eyre Brontë   1847   167

Evangeline Longfellow   1847   169

Sonnets Mrs. Browning   1847   171

The Biglow Papers Lowell   1848   173

Vanity Fair Thackeray   1848   175

The History of England Macaulay   1849   177

In Memoriam Tennyson   1850   179

The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne   1850   181

Uncle Tom's Cabin Mrs. Stowe   1852   183

The Stones of Venice Ruskin   1851   185

Men and Women Browning   1855   187

The Rise of the Dutch Republic Motley   1856   189

Adam Bede George Eliot   1859   191

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Darwin   1859   193

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Fitzgerald   1859