Best of
19th-Century

1894

The Adventure of the Empty House (The Return of Sherlock Holmes, #1)


Arthur Conan Doyle - 1894
    

Complete Shorter Fiction


Oscar Wilde - 1894
    W.H.;" and the parables Wilde referred to as "Poems in Prose," including "The Artist," "The House of Judgment," and "The Teacher of Wisdom."

The Story of an Hour


Kate Chopin - 1894
    From the famous proto-feminist tale "The Story of an Hour" to the subtly sexy "A Respectable Woman," Chopin sheds light on the frustrations, desires, and dreams of her own era and their reverberations today. Artist Gemma Correll's quirky illustrations provide a perfect modern counterpoint to Chopin's classic prose.(

The Mountains of California


John Muir - 1894
    Blending keen observations of flora, geography, and geology, the natural forces that shape the landscape, and the changing seasons, Muir paints a timeless portrait of the wilderness he called “the Range of Light, the most divinely beautiful of all the mountain chains I have ever seen.” Also included are visits to two famous Cascades peaks, Mount Shasta and Mount St. Helens

The Book of Monelle


Marcel Schwob - 1894
    A carefully woven assemblage of legends, aphorisms, fairy tales and nihilistic philosophy, it remains a deeply enigmatic and haunting work more than a century later, a gathering of literary and personal ruins written in a style that evokes both the Brothers Grimm and Friedrich Nietzsche. The Book of Monelle was the result of Schwob's intense emotional suffering over the loss of his love, a "girl of the streets" named Louise, whom he had befriended in 1891 and who succumbed to tuberculosis two years later. Transforming her into the innocent prophet of destruction, Monelle, Schwob tells the stories of her various sisters: girls succumbing to disillusionment, caught between the misleading world of childlike fantasy and the bitter world of reality. This new translation reintroduces a true fin-de-siècle masterpiece into English.A secret influence on generations of writers, from Guillaume Apollinaire and Jorge Luis Borges to Roberto Bolaño, Marcel Schwob (1867-1905) was as versed in the street slang of medieval thieves as he was in the poetry of Walt Whitman (whom he translated into French). Paul Valéry and Alfred Jarry both dedicated their first books to him, and he was the uncle of Surrealist photographer Claude Cahun.

The Treasure of Silver Lake


Karl May - 1894
    Written by Karl May in 1891, when he was at the peak of his creativity. It was read by millions of avid adventure lovers and has never been out of print in its native language. Now you may enjoy this gripping adventure in English, thanks to the efforts of Herbert Windolf.

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson/Those Extraordinary Twins


Mark Twain - 1894
    It began life as a slapstick comedy about Siamese twins, but as he wrote, something deepened. "The tale kept spreading along, and spreading along, and other people got to intruding themselves and taking up more and more time with their talk and their affairs. It changed from a farce to a tragedy while I was going along with it," Twain wrote in his frank afternote to the novel. In the end, the voice that comes to dominate the tale is Roxana's, a light-skinned slave who switches her infant son with her master's son to keep him from being sold down the river. Roxana, Twain's most complex and fully-realized adult female character, is a compelling and memorable tragic heroine, trapped with her son by the brutal system of slavery and by their own inescapable racial identities. At his best, Twain is the most uniquely American of writers, and it is inevitable that his best work revolves around the issues of race and of slavery embedded in the American psyche. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson is a dark and powerful novel of race in America, written by the American master.

Poetical Works


John Keats - 1894
    A commentary by Buxton Forman on the early printed editions, a chronology of Keat's life, and a note on the wealth of manuscript material complete the authoritative text.

The Tevye Stories and Others


Sholom Aleichem - 1894
    

The Garden of Epicurus


Anatole France - 1894
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Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan


Lafcadio Hearn - 1894
    Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a bewitching look into a world that few Westerners saw in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—a world that still endures in many ways in spite of the changes that have taken place during the modernization of Japan.

The Prisoner of Zenda & Rupert of Hentzau


Anthony Hope - 1894
    Rudolph Rassendyl's quiet life is interrupted by his unexpected and personal involvement in the affairs of Ruritania, whilst travelling through the town of Zenda, finding himself engaged in plans to rescue the imprisoned king.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: Volume 2


Arthur Conan Doyle - 1894
    Clive Merrison stars as Holmes with Michael Williams as Watson in these adventures, volume 2 of the second collection from the unique fully dramatised BBC canon of Conan Doyle's short stories and novels featuring the world-famous sleuth.The stories included are: 'The Musgrave Ritual' / 'The Reigate Squires' / 'The Crooked Man' / 'The Resident Patient'.Gripping, suspenseful and hugely entertaining, these acclaimed dramatisations bring the world of Holmes and Watson to life, and are guaranteed to appeal to any fan of the great detective.

The Black Monk


Anton Chekhov - 1894
    Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Studies of Death


Count Stenbock - 1894
    Studies of Death: Romantic Tales appeared in 1894, ornamented with a striking frontispiece by its author. The seven stories reveal an original imagination and a spry, urbane style quite removed from the melancholy murmurings of the Count's verse.Towards the last the Count was mentally as well as physically ill. At Withdeane Hall he terrified the domestic staff with his persecution complex and his delirium tremens. On his travels he had been escorted, and with him went a dog, a monkey and a life-size doll. He was convinced that the doll was his son and referred to it as 'le Petit comte'. Every day it had to be brought to him, and when it was not there he would ask for news of its health. He was buried at the Brighton Catholic Cemetery. Before burial the heart was extracted and sent to Estonia & placed among the Stenbock monuments in the church at Kusal. It was preserved in some fluid in a glass urn in a cupboard built into the wall of the church. At the time of his death, his uncle and heir, far away in Esbia, saw an apparition of his tear-stained face at his study window.On the day of his death Eric, drunk and furious, had tried to strike someone with a poker and toppled into a grate.-- R. B. RussellContents Include: Hylas; Narcissus; Death of a Vocation; Viol D'Amour; Egg of the Albatross; True Story of a Vampire; Worm of Luck; The Other Side; Translations from Balzac -- Christ in Flanders; A Passion in the Desert.Limited Ed. of 300 Copies ~ UK Import

Dorothy's Double - Volume III (of 3)


G.A. Henty - 1894
    Dorothy Hawtrey's life is turned topsy turvy by a rogue enemy who cultivates a poor girl who resembles Dorothy and uses her to impersonate Dorothy.

Discords


George Egerton - 1894
    A Psychological Moment at Three Periods: The Child / The Girl / The WomanHer ShareGone UnderWedlockVirgin SoilThe Regeneration of Two

Tales of Unease


Arthur Conan Doyle - 1894
    We move from the mysteries of Egypt and the strange powers granted by The Ring of Thoth to the isolated ghost-lands of the Arctic in The Captain of the Polestar, we encounter a monstrous creature in The Terror of Blue John Cap and the beings that live above our heads in The Brazilian Cat and The Leather Funnel; and we shudder at the thing in the next room in Lot 249.Sit down in your uneasy chair and enjoy this collection of chillers.

The Neuro-Psychoses of Defence


Sigmund Freud - 1894
    'The Neuro-Psychoses of Defence' is a psychological essay on defence hysteria and its causes. Sigismund Schlomo Freud was born on 6th May 1856, in the Moravian town of Příbor, now part of the Czech Republic. He studied a variety of subjects, including philosophy, physiology, and zoology, graduating with an MD in 1881. Freud made a huge and lasting contribution to the field of psychology with many of his methods still being used in modern psychoanalysis. He inspired much discussion on the wealth of theories he produced and the reactions to his works began a century of great psychological investigation.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, Vol.2


Lafcadio Hearn - 1894
    Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a bewitching look into a world that few Westerners saw in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—a world that still endures in many ways in spite of the changes that have taken place during the modernization of Japan.

Gemenele


Alexandre Dumas - 1894
    In 1830, the last Bourbon King, Charles X, was forced to abdicate in favour of Dumas' employer, Louis Philippe (1773-1850), who styled himself "King of the French" and endeavoured to rule as a constitutional monarch. In 1832, the widowed mother of the young Bourbon pretender, Henri V, Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicilie (1798-1870), the Countess de Berry, made a clandestine return from exile and attempted to lead an uprising against Louis-Philippe in favor of her son. Her supporters generally refused to take up arms, except in La Vendée, the center of Royalist opposition to the French Revolution, and the scene of savage partisan warfare in the 1790's. There, an abortive upraising was suppressed by Government forces, and tailed off into banditry. From this episode, Dumas fashioned an immense and very interesting novel. The eponymous "Louves de Machecoul" are the beautiful twin daughters of the Marquis de Souday, a royalist partisan fighter who fled into exile when Napoleon suppressed the resistance, and returned to reclaim his ancestral lands in 1815. The family are all ardent Legitimists--supporters of the Countess de Berry. The twins encounter the wimpy Michel, son of a commoner who had become rich by betraying the Royalist guerillas to Napoleon’s forces, who, after the war, is killed in a suspicious hunting accident. Michel, smitten with the twins, promptly offers his services to the Legitimist cause. Michel fights bravely in the uprising and falls in love with Mary, while the other twin, Berthe, falls in love with Michel. Through a misunderstanding, Michel is betrothed to the wrong twin. As the revolution collapses, the characters find themselves hunted by the Government forces of the energetic General Dermoncourt, and continually subject to betrayal and arrest. Alexandre Dumas was a proponent of a set of antique and aristocratic virtues: duty, honor, courage, and loyalty. In Louves de Machecoul these virtues lead to a pointless war. General Dermoncourt, in his tribute to the Countess de Berry, describes her as "having been born two centuries too late." The Countess who believes that duty requires her to struggle to uphold her son's rights, learns that the struggle requires the death of her most devoted adherents. This novel, with its flashes of ambivalence, realistic descriptions of guerilla war, emotional growth of its characters, and insight into the tensions of post-revolutionary France, suggests that the mature Dumas had become a wiser and more thoughtful man than course of many of his earlier novels would have suggested.

Thou Art the Man


Mary Elizabeth Braddon - 1894
    When Mountford, an epileptic subject to seizures and memory loss, awakened near a bloody corpse, he was forced to escape to avoid execution for the crime. The years passed, nothing was heard of Mountford, and it was supposed he had either died or fled the country. A decade later, Sibyl, now Lady Penrith, is travelling along a desolate moor when a crazed man stops her carriage and hands her a scrawled note. Believing the note to be from Mountford, Sibyl sets out to investigate, and with the help of her niece Coralie Urquhart she will uncover the long-hidden truth behind the murder and the horrible fate of Brandon Mountford!Thou Art the Man (1894) is a thrilling and fast-paced novel of murder and mystery. It is also, as Laurence Talairach-Vielmas discusses in her introduction to this edition, a fascinating look at the ways Braddon adapted late-Victorian theories of heredity, disease, and criminology into her fiction. This edition reprints the unabridged text of the 1895 "yellowback" edition, complete with a facsimile of its cover, and includes a new introduction and explanatory notes.

The Queen Who Flew


Ford Madox Ford - 1894
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Morose Vignettes


Rémy de Gourmont - 1894
    Precursory in some ways of surrealism, the pieces contained herein, representing a distilled essence of prose fiction, an osmazome of literature, are brief, flippant and excessively impressionistic. That combination of traits, and the variety of its deployment in the three phases of the text, entitles it to be considered a remarkable book, entitled to consideration as a true work of art, despite its small size.