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1837
Showing 28 works across all media from 1837
The French Revolution
A History
1837 · 798 pages
Carlyle writes the Revolution in the present tense, as though standing in the crowd. The Bastille falls and the Terror arrives as things still happening, history delivered as thunder rather than explanation.
★ 6.9
Fairy Tales
1837 · 200 pages
Andersen wrote his tales instead of collecting them, and put grief where the folk versions put magic. The mermaid pays for legs with her voice and every step feels like walking on knives.
★ 6.7
Selected Poetry
1837 · 288 pages
Pushkin's clerk in "The Bronze Horseman" loses everything to a flood, curses the tsar's statue, and is chased by it through Petersburg. Every Russian writer since has worked inside the language he made.
★ 6.7
Novels, Tales, Journeys
The Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin (Vintage Classics)
1837 · 512 pages
Pushkin cut Russian storytelling down to speed and clarity. An officer bullies an old countess for the secret of three winning cards, and a young soldier is swept into Pugachev's peasant rebellion.
★ 6.4
Eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty.
Andrew Jackson's Farewell Address · 1837
Inaugural Address of Martin van Buren · 1837
The American Scholar · 1837
★ 3.5
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
Henrietta Temple · 1837