1868 · Skopia

Showing 8 works across all media from 1868

1868

★ 7.1

The Balcony

1868 · Musee d'Orsay, Paris

Three people at a green railing all looking different ways and none at each other. Berthe Morisot is the one seated and dreaming.

★ 6.8

Fiction · Mystery

The Moonstone

Wilkie Collins

1868 · 528 pages

T.S. Eliot called it the first and best of modern English detective novels. A diamond looted from an Indian shrine arrives as a birthday present and vanishes that night.

★ 6.6

Novel · Coming of age story

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

Louisa May Alcott

Little Women · 1868

★ 5.5

Poem

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.

Sarah Williams

The Old Astronomer · 1868

★ 5.3

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Woman's Sphere · 1868

★ 3.6

Speech

For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.

T.H. Huxley

A Liberal Education · 1868

★ 3.6

Essay · Philosophical literature

Hebraism and Hellenism,—between these two points of influence moves our world.

Matthew Arnold

Culture and Anarchy · 1868

★ 1.9