1850


The Scarlet Letter
David Copperfield
Madame Bovary
The Black Tulip
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Walden or, Life in the Woods
Olive
Diary of a Superfluous Man
Horse
The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy
White Jacket or, the World in a Man-of-War
The Man in the Iron Mask (Le vicomte de Bragelonne #4/4)
The Wide, Wide World
Les Fleurs du Mal
The Moorland Cottage
A Spy in the House by Y.S. LeeWe Hear the Dead by Dianne K. SalerniIn the Shadow of the Lamp by Susanne DunlapGirl at the Grave by Teri Bailey BlackOlivia Twist by Lorie Langdon
YA Fiction set in the 1850s
26 books — 5 voters
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertDavid Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Best Books of the Decade: 1850s
221 books — 309 voters

Thomas Mann
“ Een jaar en twee maanden later, op een nevelige januarimorgen met sneeuw in de lucht van het jaar 1850, zaten de heer en mevrouw Grünlich met hun kleine, driejarige dochtertje in de met lichtbruin hout betimmerde eetkamer op stoelen, die 25 mark per stuk hadden gekost, aan het ontbijt. ”
― Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie

Frédéric Bastiat
“ Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that ...more ”
― Frederic Bastiat, The Law

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