Middlemarch
1872 · 810 pages
Dorothea Brooke marries a dry scholar for the wrong reasons and a gifted doctor lets small compromises close around him. Eliot knows more about how people actually fail than any English novelist.
★ 9.6
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Demons
1872 · 768 pages
Pyotr Verkhovensky assembles a revolutionary cell of five in a provincial Russian town and binds them together by having them murder one of their own. Dostoevsky saw the whole twentieth century coming.
★ 7.3
The Birth of Tragedy
Out of the Spirit of Music
1872 · 120 pages
Greek tragedy came from a collision of two forces, Nietzsche argues: Apollo's clear forms against Dionysus's music and intoxication. Socrates killed it by insisting the world could be explained rather than endured.
★ 7.0
The Extraordinary Journeys
Around the World in Eighty Days (Oxford World's Classics)
1872 · 247 pages
Phileas Fogg wagers half his fortune that steamships and railways have shrunk the world to eighty days, and leaves that evening. Seventeen years later the reporter Nellie Bly ran the route in seventy-two.
★ 5.5