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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 76 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,338,009 ratings — published 1885
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.83 — 666,433 ratings — published 1886
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as 1880s)
avg rating 4.13 — 495,444 ratings — published 1887
Treasure Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.85 — 541,267 ratings — published 1882
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as 1880s)
avg rating 4.14 — 225,005 ratings — published 1886
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as 1880s)
avg rating 4.39 — 387,627 ratings — published 1880
The Portrait of a Lady (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.80 — 85,227 ratings — published 1881
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.78 — 108,172 ratings — published 1889
Against Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.79 — 15,303 ratings — published 1884
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as 1880s)
avg rating 4.07 — 176,865 ratings — published 1883
King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.79 — 52,712 ratings — published 1885
Pinocchio (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.84 — 88,935 ratings — published 1883
Washington Square (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.71 — 25,861 ratings — published 1880
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.81 — 77,715 ratings — published 1884
Bel-Ami (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.86 — 49,188 ratings — published 1885
The Canterville Ghost (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.88 — 71,132 ratings — published 1887
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as 1880s)
avg rating 4.03 — 114,439 ratings — published 1886
Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.79 — 68,072 ratings — published 1886
Heidi (Heidi, #1-2)
by (shelved 18 times as 1880s)
avg rating 4.04 — 211,459 ratings — published 1880
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.87 — 66,180 ratings — published 1886
Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.83 — 80,315 ratings — published 1889
The Prince and the Pauper (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.87 — 125,574 ratings — published 1881
The Bostonians (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.58 — 8,022 ratings — published 1886
Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.30 — 6,886 ratings — published 1888
Germinal (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1880s)
avg rating 4.20 — 43,171 ratings — published 1885
Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1880s)
avg rating 4.26 — 38,560 ratings — published 1881
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1880s)
avg rating 4.07 — 66,977 ratings — published 1883
The Kreutzer Sonata (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.86 — 35,687 ratings — published 1889
The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
by (shelved 11 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.88 — 23,661 ratings — published 1886
Jo's Boys (Little Women, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.83 — 39,684 ratings — published 1886
The Happy Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as 1880s)
avg rating 4.19 — 37,928 ratings — published 1888
The Complete Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1880s)
avg rating 4.16 — 33,560 ratings — published 1888
The Ladies' Paradise (Les Rougon-Macquart #11)
by (shelved 10 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.99 — 20,647 ratings — published 1883
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as 1880s)
avg rating 4.03 — 37,786 ratings — published 1880
The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 1880s)
avg rating 4.12 — 17,207 ratings — published 1886
A Curious Beginning (Veronica Speedwell, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.96 — 59,121 ratings — published 2015
Ten Days in a Mad-House
by (shelved 9 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.86 — 24,417 ratings — published 1887
Life on the Mississippi (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.87 — 15,545 ratings — published 1883
Little Lord Fauntleroy (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.91 — 25,050 ratings — published 1885
The Aspern Papers (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.70 — 6,888 ratings — published 1888
The Last Days of Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as 1880s)
avg rating 4.16 — 44,208 ratings — published 2016
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.91 — 145,484 ratings — published 1886
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as 1880s)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,100,373 ratings — published 2011
An Enemy of the People (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.87 — 15,325 ratings — published 1882
The Selfish Giant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as 1880s)
avg rating 4.07 — 10,208 ratings — published 1888
The Rise of Silas Lapham (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.43 — 4,337 ratings — published 1885
The Anti-Christ (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1880s)
avg rating 3.88 — 32,728 ratings — published 1888
“One of the most ambitious men to exploit the timber trade was Hugh F. McDanield, a railroad builder and tie contractor who had come to Fayetteville along with the Frisco. He bought thousands of acres of land within hauling distance of the railroad and sent out teams of men to cut the timber. By the mid-1880s, after a frenzy of cutting in south Washington County, he turned his gaze to the untapped fortune of timber on the steep hillsides of southeast Washington County and southern Madison County, territory most readily accessed along a wide valley long since leveled by the east fork of White River. Mr. McDanield gathered a group of backers and the state granted a charter September 4, 1886, giving authority to issue capital stock valued at $1.5 million, which was the estimated cost to build a rail line through St. Paul and on to Lewisburg, which was a riverboat town on the Arkansas River near Morrilton. McDanield began surveys while local businessman J. F. Mayes worked with property owners to secure rights of way. “On December 4, 1886, a switch was installed in the Frisco main line about a mile south of Fayetteville, and the spot was named Fayette Junction.” Within six months, 25 miles of track had been laid east by southeast through Baldwin, Harris, Elkins, Durham, Thompson, Crosses, Delaney, Patrick, Combs, and finally St. Paul.
Soon after, in 1887, the Frisco bought the so-called “Fayetteville and Little Rock” line from McDanield. It was estimated that in the first year McDanield and partners shipped out more than $2,000,000 worth of hand-hacked white oak railroad ties at an approximate value of twenty-five cents each. Mills ran day and night as people arrived “by train, wagon, on horseback, even afoot” to get a piece of the action along the new track, commonly referred to as the “St. Paul line.” Saloons, hotels, banks, stores, and services from smithing to tailoring sprang up in rail stop communities.”
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Soon after, in 1887, the Frisco bought the so-called “Fayetteville and Little Rock” line from McDanield. It was estimated that in the first year McDanield and partners shipped out more than $2,000,000 worth of hand-hacked white oak railroad ties at an approximate value of twenty-five cents each. Mills ran day and night as people arrived “by train, wagon, on horseback, even afoot” to get a piece of the action along the new track, commonly referred to as the “St. Paul line.” Saloons, hotels, banks, stores, and services from smithing to tailoring sprang up in rail stop communities.”
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“Daylight meant that she must exist in a world that was growing darker and darker because she knew that there was not a man within miles who wanted a plain twenty-nine-year-old spinster.”
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