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1897

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Fiction · Epistolary novel

Dracula

Bram Stoker
1897 · 512 pages

An English solicitor rides into the Carpathians to close a property deal and finds his client is a corpse with plans for London. Every undead figure since works from Stoker's Count.

★ 7.0
Nonfiction · Sociology

Suicide

A Study In Sociology
Emile Durkheim
1897 · 405 pages

Protestants kill themselves more often than Catholics, single people more often than married. Durkheim turned the most private act into a social fact, and every social science since counts the way he counted.

★ 6.8
Fiction · Science fiction

The War of the Worlds

H.G. Wells
1897 · 138 pages

Cylinders fall on Horsell Common outside Woking, and the Martians rise out of them with heat-rays and walking machines. Wells turned the British Empire's own conquests around and pointed them at Surrey.

★ 6.6
Essay

Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the expression of man's emotions by external signs; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity.

★ 3.8