Best of
19th-Century

1868

Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys


Louisa May Alcott - 1868
    The books are loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three sisters. The novels are classics - the publisher unable to keep up with the demand when the first book in the series was published. Themes of romance, family drama, gender constraints and the validation of virtue over wealth are explored in these timeless stories.

In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant (Extraordinary Voyages, #5)


Jules Verne - 1868
    Lord Glenarvan examined them attentively for a few minutes, turning them over on all sides, holding them up to the light, and trying to decipher the least scrap of writing, while the others looked on with anxious eyes.

The Musician's Quest


George MacDonald - 1868
    Robert Falconer, who appears briefly in The Tutor's First Love, is the main character in this compelling story.

German Requiem in Full Score


Johannes Brahms - 1868
    Inexpensive but sturdily constructed to provide years of pleasurable use, this full score combines all the musical parts in a clear, readable format, with wide margins, large noteheads, and many other helpful features.Brahms conducted the first major performance of the German Requiem in Bremen Cathedral in April 1868. The occasion — attended by many distinguished musicians, among them Clara Schumann — provided the 34-year-old composer with his first great public success. Scored for mixed chorus, solo voices, and full orchestra, the Requiem reflects Brahms' virtuosic grasp of nineteenth-century vocal technique as well as the polyphonic vocal traditions of the previous three centuries. Above all, it radiates Brahms' stalwart individuality, technical mastery, and stirring emotional appeal, which were soon to secure his unique position in the musical world. More than a century after its debut, this masterpiece of choral music is one of the most performed and recorded works in the repertoire of religious music.

Twilight Hours: A Legacy Of Verse


Sarah Williams - 1868
    The book includes an introduction by the book's editor and collector, the scholar E.H. Plumptre.

Spanish Papers


Washington Irving - 1868
    The first part of the book was published first in 1835 as Legends of the Conquest of Spain (by the Moors). The three other parts of the book chronicle the re-conquest.