1879


A Doll's House
The Brothers Karamazov
Daisy Miller
The Egoist
Cousin Henry
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice
Röda Rummet
Dr. Wortle's School
Four Major Plays: A Doll's House / Ghosts / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder
The Shadow in the Corner
Der Flaschenteufel und andere Geschichten
Confidence
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Les Mystères de Montréal: roman de moeurs (French Edition)
The Begum's Fortune
Marie, Dancing by Carolyn MeyerThe Ruby in the Smoke by Philip PullmanDangerous Neighbors by Beth KephartClockwork Angel by Cassandra ClareFolly by Marthe Jocelyn
YA Fiction set in the 1870s
33 books — 11 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollBlack Beauty by Anna SewellAround the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Best Books of the Decade: 1870s
261 books — 353 voters

Charles Jacobs Peterson
“ ...the art of dressing well consists in knowing the prevailing fashions, and adapting them to your particular style. What suits one will not always look beautiful on another. There should be discrimination, the result of a cultivated taste. To deviate from the prevailing mode entirely is, on the other hand, a grave blunder; for anything odd makes a lady a laughing-stock, and the dress quite out of fashion is, therefore, to be avoided. Peterson's Magazine, June 1879 ...more ”
― Peterson's Magazine

“ The deleriums of fever and the recollections of dreams rise out of the remote past: what the waking and the healthy seem to have forgotten, the sleeping and the sick remember. ”
― Paul Radestock, Schlaf und Traum : eine physiologisch-psychologische Untersuchung

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