Pictures at an Exhibition
1874
Mussorgsky wrote it for piano after a memorial show of a friend's drawings, and several of the pictures it describes have since been lost.
★ 7.2
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Far from the Madding Crowd (Oxford World's Classics)
1874 · 496 pages
Three men want Bathsheba Everdene, who runs her own farm: a shepherd, a neighbor she unhinges with a joke valentine, and a soldier. Hardy stages a storm you will not forget.
★ 7.1
Boating
1874 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Manet painted this beside Monet at Argenteuil and let the blue water climb all the way to the top edge of the canvas.
★ 6.3
Melancholy
1874 · Phillips Collection, Washington, District of Columbia
A woman slumped back on a sofa, and Degas reads the whole state of mind off the slope of her shoulders.
★ 4.2
Far From the Madding Crowd · 1874