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Erec and Enide - Chrétien de Troyes
Erec and Enide - Chrétien de Troyes
- Author: Chrétien de Troyes
- Genre: Romance / Published before 1800
A medieval romance in which Erec goes through many trials until he is sure of Enide’s loyalty and true love (Summary by M. J. Boyle)...
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Volume I) - Tobias Smollett
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Volume I) - Tobias Smollett
- Author: Tobias Smollett
- Genre: Published before 1800
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle is a picaresque novel by the Scottish author Tobias Smollett (1721 – 1771), first published in 1751, and revised and reissued in 1758. It is the story of the fortunes and misfortunes of the egotistical dandy...
The Wisdom of the Ancients, A Series of Mythological Fables - Francis Bacon
The Wisdom of the Ancients, A Series of Mythological Fables - Francis Bacon
- Author: Francis Bacon
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Published before 1800
"Now I suppose most people will think I am but entertaining myself with a toy, and using much the same kind of licence in expounding the poets’ fables which the poets themselves did in inventing them; and it is true that if I had a mind to vary and...
Mary: A Fiction (version 2) - Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary: A Fiction (version 2) - Mary Wollstonecraft
- Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
- Genre: Published before 1800
Mary: A Fiction, published in 1788, is a tragic story that decries marriages not based on love. It can be considered an example of feminist fiction. Mary's parents are in a loveless marriage. As the second-born, female child, she is neglected; her...
The Adventures of Roderick Random - Tobias Smollett
The Adventures of Roderick Random - Tobias Smollett
- Author: Tobias Smollett
- Genre: Published before 1800
I am Roderick Random. This is the contemporary story of my struggle against the adversity of orphan-hood, poverty, press gangs, bloody duels, rival fortune hunters, and the challenge to be well-dressed through it all. In the course of recounting my...
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom - Tobias Smollett
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom - Tobias Smollett
- Author: Tobias Smollett
- Genre: Published before 1800
You can call me Dr. Fathom. Or Count Fathom. But I'm not who I say I am. And can you blame me? My mother was a soldiers' harlot who pocketed extra loot by wandering through the battlefield stripping the dead and dying of valuables. I don't even know...
The Coquette, Or The History of Eliza Wharton - Hannah Webster FOSTER
The Coquette, Or The History of Eliza Wharton - Hannah Webster FOSTER
- Author: Hannah Webster FOSTER
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Published before 1800
The classic early American epistolary novel about the seduction and ruin of a passionate young woman. Based on the true story of Elizabeth Whitman, whose lonesome death in childbirth in a Connecticut inn sparked widespread discussion and outrage,...
The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver GOLDSMITH
The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver GOLDSMITH
- Author: Oliver GOLDSMITH
- Genre: Published before 1800
Published in 1766 'The Vicar of Wakefield' was Oliver Goldsmith's only novel. It was thought to have been sold to the publisher for £60 on Oliver Goldsmith's behalf by Dr Johnson to enable Goldsmith to pay off outstanding rent and to release himself...
Mary: A Fiction - Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary: A Fiction - Mary Wollstonecraft
- Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
- Genre: Published before 1800
Eliza, Mary's mother, is obsessed with novels, rarely considers anyone but herself, and favours Mary's brother. She neglects her daughter, who educates herself using only books and the natural world. Ignored by her family, Mary devotes much of her...
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Volume II) - Tobias Smollett
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Volume II) - Tobias Smollett
- Author: Tobias Smollett
- Genre: Published before 1800
Volume II continues the story of the fortunes and misfortunes of the egotistical dandy Peregrine Pickle. The novel is written as a series of adventures, with every chapter typically describing a new adventure. There is also a very long independent...
The Fortunate Foundlings - Eliza Haywood
The Fortunate Foundlings - Eliza Haywood
- Author: Eliza Haywood
- Genre: General Fiction / Published before 1800
A story of love and adventure, following the fortunes of a young man and woman each trying to make their way in the wide world. Horatio and Louisa are twins, abandoned in infancy and adopted by a wealthy bachelor. For various reasons both leave his...
The Female Quixote Vol. 2 - Charlotte LENNOX
The Female Quixote Vol. 2 - Charlotte LENNOX
- Author: Charlotte LENNOX
- Genre: Romance / Published before 1800
Second Volume of the novel that formally inverts Don Quixote: as the don mistakes himself for the knightly hero of a Romance, so Arabella mistakes herself for the maiden love of a Romance. While the don thinks it his duty to praise the Platonically...
Manon Lescaut - Abbé PRÉVOST
Manon Lescaut - Abbé PRÉVOST
- Author: Abbé PRÉVOST
- Genre: Romance / Published before 1800
Published in 1731, Manon Lescaut (on which the Puccini opera is based) takes as its themes passionate, tragic love, and redemption through suffering. It is the story of the Chevalier des Grieux, a student, who sees Manon as she is being taken to a...
The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Volume 4 - Marguerite of Navarre
The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Volume 4 - Marguerite of Navarre
- Author: Marguerite of Navarre
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published before 1800
THE HEPTAMERON (here Volume 4 of 5), first published posthumously in 1558, is divided into seven complete days containing 10 stories each, and an eighth day containing only 2 stories. The stories, many of which deal with love and infidelity,...
Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji) - Murasaki SHIKIBU
Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji) - Murasaki SHIKIBU
- Author: Murasaki SHIKIBU
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Sagas / Published before 1800
The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari) is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century, around the peak of the Heian Period. It is sometimes called the world's first novel,...
The Barnaby's in America: Final sequel to The Widow Barnaby - Frances Milton Trollope
The Barnaby's in America: Final sequel to The Widow Barnaby - Frances Milton Trollope
- Author: Frances Milton Trollope
- Genre: Published before 1800
I scruple not to confess that with all her faults, and she has some, I love her dearly : I owe her many mirthful moments, and the deeper pleasure still of believing that she has brought mirthful moments to others also. Honestly avowing this to be...
Utopia (Burnet translation) - Thomas MORE
Utopia (Burnet translation) - Thomas MORE
- Author: Thomas MORE
- Genre: Published before 1800 / Medieval
This book is all about the fictional country called Utopia. It is a country with an ‘ideal’ form of communism, in which everything really does belong to everybody, everyone does the work they want to, and everyone is alright with that. This country...
Arthur Mervyn - Charles Brockden Brown
Arthur Mervyn - Charles Brockden Brown
- Author: Charles Brockden Brown
- Genre: Published before 1800
Arthur Mervyn is the story of a young man from the country who arrives in a city stricken with Yellow Fever. He soon comes down with the illness and is rescued by a kindly doctor. Arthur tells the doctor and his wife the story of his life, thereby...
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 3 - Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 3 - Laurence Sterne
- Author: Laurence Sterne
- Genre: Published before 1800
This is volume 3 of 4. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy) is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759, and seven others following over the next...
The Female Quixote Vol. 1 - Charlotte LENNOX
The Female Quixote Vol. 1 - Charlotte LENNOX
- Author: Charlotte LENNOX
- Genre: Romance / Published before 1800
The novel formally inverts Don Quixote: as the don mistakes himself for the knightly hero of a Romance, so Arabella mistakes herself for the maiden love of a Romance. While the don thinks it his duty to praise the Platonically pure damsels he meets...
The Blazing World - Margaret Lucas Cavendish
The Blazing World - Margaret Lucas Cavendish
- Author: Margaret Lucas Cavendish
- Genre: Science Fiction / Published before 1800
The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish is, all at once, a satire, a treatise on natural philosophy, a work of proto-science fiction, and a defiant venture into a scientific world where women were not usually allowed. It tells the tale of a young...
A Description of Millenium Hall and the Country Adjacent - Sarah Scott
A Description of Millenium Hall and the Country Adjacent - Sarah Scott
- Author: Sarah Scott
- Genre: Science Fiction / Published before 1800
Utopian novel by Sarah Scott, published in 1762 describes women living in complete harmony. Summary by kathrinee...
The Fiend's Delight - Ambrose Bierce
The Fiend's Delight - Ambrose Bierce
- Author: Ambrose Bierce
- Genre: Satire / Published before 1800 / Single Author Collections
This book, the fiend’s delight, was published in 1873, during the lifetime of author Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914, pseudonym Dod Grile. It is a collection of short stories which cover many subjects. Dependent upon the reader the stories may seem...
The Life of Harriot Stuart - Charlotte LENNOX
The Life of Harriot Stuart - Charlotte LENNOX
- Author: Charlotte LENNOX
- Genre: Published before 1800
The Life of Harriot Stuart, Written by Herself presents a complex and problematic view of self-creation in the eighteenth century. Within the novel, there is a constantly reoccurring theme of self-invention through fiction, which is echoed by the...
The Female American - Unca Eliza Winkfield
The Female American - Unca Eliza Winkfield
- Author: Unca Eliza Winkfield
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Published before 1800
“The Female American; Or The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield, Written by Herself in Two Volumes” was anonymously published under the pseudonym Unca Eliza Winkfield in 1767. Unca Eliza, a half-Native American and half-English woman, is shipwrecked...
