1890


The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
Hunger
Dracula
O Cortiço
The Turn of the Screw
La Bête humaine
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Heart of Darkness
Hedda Gabler
News from Nowhere
The Golden Bough
The Awakening
Alien Hearts
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeDracula by Bram StokerThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeThe Time Machine by H.G. WellsThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Best Books of the Decade: 1890s
490 books — 502 voters
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Sign of Four by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Golden Bough by James George FrazerHunger by Knut HamsunThe Red Fairy Book by Andrew  Lang
Best Books 1890
80 books — 30 voters


Vincent van Gogh
Recently I've been working very hard and quickly; in this way I try to express the desperately fast passage of things in modern life. Yesterday, in the rain, I painted a large landscape with fields as far as the eye can see, viewed from a height, different kinds of greenery, a dark green field of potatoes, the rich purple earth between the regular rows of plants, to one side a field of peas white with bloom, a field of clover with pink flowers and the little figure of a mower, a field of tall, ...more
Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Jacob A. Riis
Oh, God! That bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!
Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives

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