The Essential Emily Dickinson
1886 · 112 pages
Dickinson wrote nearly eighteen hundred poems in a Massachusetts bedroom, on death, God, and her own mind, and remade the English lyric. Begin with "Because I could not stop for Death."
★ 8.9
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Beyond Good and Evil
1886 · 240 pages
Philosophers smuggle their own prejudices in as truth, Nietzsche says, and the morality they defend was invented by the weak. He writes in short bursts aimed straight at the reader.
★ 8.2
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
1886 · 499 pages
Nothing in fiction gets nearer to dying. Ivan Ilyich knocks his side hanging a curtain, and his family and his doctors keep up the pretense while a peasant servant tells the truth.
★ 7.3
The Mayor of Casterbridge
1886 · 448 pages
Drunk at a country fair, a farm laborer sells his wife and baby to a sailor for five guineas. Years later he is mayor of Casterbridge, and Hardy lets the past collect.
★ 7.0
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
And Other Tales of Terror
1886 · 224 pages
Stevenson handed psychology its permanent image of the divided self. A respectable London doctor admits a brutal little stranger to his house, and the lawyer who investigates finds the truth worse than blackmail.
★ 6.9