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1800–1900 AD

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Works and Correspondence

David Ricardo

1942

Principles of War

Carl von Clausewitz

1943

On War

Carl von Clausewitz

1926

The Red and the Black

Stendhal

1948

The Pursuit of Happiness

Matthew Josephson

1948

Faust

Goethe

1907

The World as Will and Idea

Arthur Schopenhauer

1951

Experimental Researches in Electricity

Michael Faraday

1901

Complete Poetical Works

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1951

Selected Poetry and Prose

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1904

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History

Thomas Carlyle

1910

The French Revolution

Thomas Carlyle

1948

Masses for Organ and Chorus

Franz Schubert

1892

Essays on the American Constitution

Paul Leicester Ford

1920

Social Statics

Frédéric Bastiat

1964

Economic Sophisms

Frédéric Bastiat

1964

Selected Essays on Political Economy

Frédéric Bastiat

1922

The Last Day of a Condemned Man

Victor Hugo

1897

Selected Poems

Victor Hugo

1919

Dramas

Victor Hugo

1908

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

1842

Spain

George Henry Borrow

1889

The Man Who Laughs

Victor Hugo

1850

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

1959

Journey to America

Alexis de Tocqueville

1945

Democracy in America

Alexis de Tocqueville

1949

The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville

1909

Principles of Political Economy

John Stuart Mill

1916

On Liberty

John Stuart Mill

1946

Representative Government

John Stuart Mill

1952

Collected Logical Works

George Boole

1885

Microcosm

Hermann Lotze

1899

Miscellaneous Writings

Benjamin Jowett

1947

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx

1954

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

Jacob Burckhardt

1943

Force and Freedom

Jacob Burckhardt

1930

Moby Dick

Herman Melville

1949

Melville

Geoffrey Stone

1950

The Man Versus the State

Herbert Spencer

1926

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

1952

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

1927

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

1949

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoevsky

1908

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

Mary Baker Eddy

1901

Experiments in Plant Hybridisation

Gregor Mendel

1923

Dramatic Works

Leo Tolstoy

1930

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

1950

Book of Mormon

Joseph Smith

1896

Past Money in France

Andrew Dickson White

1906

Lectures on Modern History

Lord Acton

1952

Essays on Church and State

Lord Acton

1953

Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics

Gertrude Himmelfarb

1895

A Lecture on the Study of History

Lord Acton

1904

Letters of Lord Acton to Mary Gladstone

Lord Acton

1906

Acton and His Circle

Mandell Creighton

1882

History of the Papacy

Mandell Creighton

1921

Modern Democracies

James Bryce

1888

The American Commonwealth

James Bryce

1950

Principles of Economics

Carl Menger

1899

The Conquest of the United States by Spain

William Graham Sumner

1907

Christian Science

Mark Twain

1907

The Education of Henry Adams

Henry Adams

1938

Progress and Poverty

Henry George

1897

The Life of Nelson

Alfred Thayer Mahan

1907

Pragmatism

William James

1953

Selected Fiction

Henry James

1949

The Use and Abuse of History

Friedrich Nietzsche

1888

Looking Backward

Edward Bellamy

1948

Fabian Essays

George Bernard Shaw et al.

1900

Introduction to the Science of Politics

Sir Frederick Pollock

1952

The History of English Law

Pollock and Maitland

1948

Writings and Speeches

Eugene V. Debs

1949

An Outline of Psychoanalysis

Sigmund Freud

1930

Human Nature and Conduct

John Dewey

1911

Creative Evolution

Henri Bergson

1911

Laughter

Henri Bergson

1935

The Two Sources of Morality and Religion

Henri Bergson

1947

The Wit and Wisdom of Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead

1948

Essays in Science and Philosophy

Alfred North Whitehead

1926

Science and the Modern World

Alfred North Whitehead

1949

An Introduction to Metaphysics

Henri Bergson

1960

Value and Price

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

1962

Shorter Classics

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

1981

A Plea for Liberty

Herbert Spencer and Others

1838

The American Democrat

James Fenimore Cooper

1984

Democratic Editorials and Essays

William Leggett