The Importance of Being Earnest
1895 · 431 pages
Wilde gives two idle men imaginary people, a wicked brother and an invalid friend, to escape their obligations, then sets them courting women who will marry no one but a man named Ernest.
★ 8.0
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The Time Machine
1895 · 320 pages
Wells sent his traveler to the year 802,701, where the gentle Eloi live above ground and the Morlocks feed on them below. Every time machine since is a copy of his.
★ 6.6
Effi Briest
1895 · 255 pages
Married at seventeen to a baron of thirty-eight who once courted her mother, Effi is stranded in a bleak Baltic town. Fontane lets a code nobody believes in destroy her anyway.
★ 6.6