Heart of Darkness
1899 · 110 pages
Marlow steams up the Congo to retrieve an ivory agent gone strange upriver. Conrad found empire hollow, and the novelist Achebe's charge of racism has kept the book under argument ever since.
★ 8.6
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The Interpretation of Dreams
1899 · 512 pages
Every dream is a disguised wish, Freud claims, and the mind disguises it by condensation and displacement. Psychoanalysis rests on this book, and the dreams it dissects are mostly Freud's own.
★ 7.3
The Awakening and Selected Stories
1899 · 286 pages
On a Louisiana resort island a married woman learns to swim, and the pleasure undoes everything she agreed to be. Edna Pontellier wants a life of her own, and 1899 offers none.
★ 7.1
The Theory of the Leisure Class
1899 · 304 pages
Veblen argued that the rich buy expensive things to prove they can afford waste, and that idleness is itself a display. He named it conspicuous consumption, and nobody has improved on the term.
★ 6.7