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1800–1900 AD
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David Ricardo
1942Principles of War
Carl von Clausewitz
1943On War
Carl von Clausewitz
1926The Red and the Black
Stendhal
1948The Pursuit of Happiness
Matthew Josephson
1948Faust
Goethe
1907The World as Will and Idea
Arthur Schopenhauer
1951Experimental Researches in Electricity
Michael Faraday
1901Complete Poetical Works
Percy Bysshe Shelley
1951Selected Poetry and Prose
Percy Bysshe Shelley
1904On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
Thomas Carlyle
1910The French Revolution
Thomas Carlyle
1948Masses for Organ and Chorus
Franz Schubert
1892Essays on the American Constitution
Paul Leicester Ford
1920Social Statics
Frédéric Bastiat
1964Economic Sophisms
Frédéric Bastiat
1964Selected Essays on Political Economy
Frédéric Bastiat
1922The Last Day of a Condemned Man
Victor Hugo
1897Selected Poems
Victor Hugo
1919Dramas
Victor Hugo
1908Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
1842Spain
George Henry Borrow
1889The Man Who Laughs
Victor Hugo
1850The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1959Journey to America
Alexis de Tocqueville
1945Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville
1949The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
1909Principles of Political Economy
John Stuart Mill
1916On Liberty
John Stuart Mill
1946Representative Government
John Stuart Mill
1952Collected Logical Works
George Boole
1885Microcosm
Hermann Lotze
1899Miscellaneous Writings
Benjamin Jowett
1947The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx
1954The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
Jacob Burckhardt
1943Force and Freedom
Jacob Burckhardt
1930Moby Dick
Herman Melville
1949Melville
Geoffrey Stone
1950The Man Versus the State
Herbert Spencer
1926Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
1952Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1927The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1949The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1908Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Mary Baker Eddy
1901Experiments in Plant Hybridisation
Gregor Mendel
1923Dramatic Works
Leo Tolstoy
1930War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
1950Book of Mormon
Joseph Smith
1896Past Money in France
Andrew Dickson White
1906Lectures on Modern History
Lord Acton
1952Essays on Church and State
Lord Acton
1953Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics
Gertrude Himmelfarb
1895A Lecture on the Study of History
Lord Acton
1904Letters of Lord Acton to Mary Gladstone
Lord Acton
1906Acton and His Circle
Mandell Creighton
1882History of the Papacy
Mandell Creighton
1921Modern Democracies
James Bryce
1888The American Commonwealth
James Bryce
1950Principles of Economics
Carl Menger
1899The Conquest of the United States by Spain
William Graham Sumner
1907Christian Science
Mark Twain
1907The Education of Henry Adams
Henry Adams
1938Progress and Poverty
Henry George
1897The Life of Nelson
Alfred Thayer Mahan
1907Pragmatism
William James
1953Selected Fiction
Henry James
1949The Use and Abuse of History
Friedrich Nietzsche
1888Looking Backward
Edward Bellamy
1948Fabian Essays
George Bernard Shaw et al.
1900Introduction to the Science of Politics
Sir Frederick Pollock
1952The History of English Law
Pollock and Maitland
1948Writings and Speeches
Eugene V. Debs
1949An Outline of Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
1930Human Nature and Conduct
John Dewey
1911Creative Evolution
Henri Bergson
1911Laughter
Henri Bergson
1935The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
Henri Bergson
1947The Wit and Wisdom of Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
1948Essays in Science and Philosophy
Alfred North Whitehead
1926Science and the Modern World
Alfred North Whitehead
1949An Introduction to Metaphysics
Henri Bergson
1960Value and Price
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
1962Shorter Classics
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
1981A Plea for Liberty
Herbert Spencer and Others
1838The American Democrat
James Fenimore Cooper
1984Democratic Editorials and Essays
William Leggett