1897


Dracula
The Invisible Man
Cyrano de Bergerac
What Maisie Knew
The Whirlpool
The War of the Worlds
Misericordia
An Antarctic Mystery
Uncle Vanya
Captains Courageous
The Woman Who Was Poor
The Beetle
The Water Of The Wondrous Isles
The Gadfly
De Profundis
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
496 books — 511 voters
Dracula by Bram StokerThe Invisible Man by H.G. WellsCaptains Courageous by Rudyard KiplingWhat Maisie Knew by Henry JamesUncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
Best Books 1897
36 books — 29 voters

Émile Durkheim
Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract;
Émile Durkheim, Suicide: A Study in Sociology

Lester B. Pearson
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Lester B. Pearson

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