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
News from Nowhere
The Awakening
Alien Hearts
Lalka
Thaïs
De Profundis
Le Secret des Enfants-Rouges by Claude IznerLa Disparue du Père-Lachaise by Claude IznerMystère rue des Saint-Pères by Claude IznerLe Carrefour des Écrasés by Claude IznerLe Talisman de la Villette by Claude Izner
Les Enquêtes de Victor Legris
12 books — 1 voter
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Sign of Four by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Golden Bough by James George FrazerHunger by Knut HamsunNews from Nowhere by William Morris
Best Books 1890
79 books — 27 voters

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
466 books — 500 voters

Oscar Wilde
The artist is the creator of beautiful things.    To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.      The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. ...more
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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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