1879 · Skopia

Showing 15 works across all media from 1879

A Doll's House

1879 · 72 pages

Nora Helmer forged a signature to save her husband's life and has been paying the debt in secret ever since. The play ends on a closing door that modern theater still hears.

★ 8.0

Autobiography and memoir · Travel writing

We are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world....and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

1879

★ 6.9

Novel

If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once, be dried up.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov · 1879

★ 6.4

Genre painting · Impressionism

The Rehearsal

Edgar Degas

1879 · The Frick Collection, New York City

Dancers stretch while a spiral staircase cuts the corner and the frame slices figures off. Degas cared about the practice, not the performance.

★ 6.1

Novel

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov · 1879

★ 5.6

Scientific literature

When the views advanced by me in this volume, and by Mr. Wallace, or when analogous views on the origin of species are generally admitted, we can dimly foresee that there will be a considerable revolution in natural history.

Charles Darwin

On the Origin of Species · 1879

★ 5.5

Portrait · Impressionism

Portraits at the Stock Exchange

Edgar Degas

1879 · Musee d'Orsay, Paris

Degas turned from dancers to financiers, catching heads bent close over documents in the crush of the Paris exchange.

★ 5.2

Speech

If you tie up a horse to a stake, do you expect he will grow fat? If you pen an Indian up on a small spot of earth, and compel him to stay there, he will not be contented, nor will he grow and prosper. I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They can not tell me.

Chief Joseph

1879

★ 4.4

Essay

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot

1879

★ 3.7

Inequality...has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalising our lower class.

Matthew Arnold

Equality · 1879

★ 3.5

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

Henry George

1879

★ 3.5

Letter

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing a new truth or fact.

Charles Darwin

1879

★ 2.1

Historical literature

Gift, like genius, I often think, only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Ellice Hopkins

1879

★ 1.9

Opera · Comedy

It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.

W.S. Gilbert

1879

★ 1.2

Travel writing

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Robert Louis Stevenson

1879

★ 1.1