1897


Dracula
The Invisible Man
Cyrano de Bergerac
What Maisie Knew
An Antarctic Mystery
The Whirlpool
The War of the Worlds
Misericordia
Uncle Vanya
Captains Courageous
The Woman Who Was Poor
The Beetle
The Water Of The Wondrous Isles
The Gadfly
De Profundis
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 — 28 voters
The Luxe by Anna GodbersenThe Year We Were Famous by Carole Estby DaggVelvet by Mary HooperThese Shallow Graves by Jennifer DonnellyA Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
YA Fiction set in the 1890s
57 books — 14 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
496 books — 512 voters

Oscar Wilde
“ Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! Some kill their love when they are young, And some when they are old; Some strangle with the hands of Gold: The kindest use a knife, because The dead so soon grow cold. Some love too little, some too long, Some sell and others buy; Some do the deed with many tears, And some without a sigh: For each man kills th ...more ”
― Oscar Wilde, Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde including the Ballad of Reading Gaol

Vivekananda
“ … an Emperor says, "I will kill you if you do not come", and the man bursts into a laugh and says, "You never told such a falsehood in your life, as you tell just now. Who can kill me? Me you kill, Emperor of the material world! Never! For I am Spirit unborn and undecaying; never was I born and never do I die; I am the Infinite, the Omnipresent, the Omniscient; and you kill me, child that you are!" That is strength, that is strength! ...more ”
― Swami Vivekananda, The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 3

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