A Book Written by an Author in the 19th Century

A selection of books that fulfill the UBN 2025 category of a book written by an author in the 19th century.

Updated January 4, 2025
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The picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde, Oscar
Paper Book
This Norton Critical Edition is the only edition available that includes both the 1890 Lippincott's and the 1891 book versions of The Picture of Dorian Gray, allowing students to compare the two published versions with the editorial guidance of Michael Patrick Gillespie.
Persuasion
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
Set around Lyme Regis and Bath, the story of Anne Elliott's seven-year wait for love is here re-examined by Claude Rawson in his introduction to Austen's last completed novel.
Tales of mystery and imagination
Poe, Edgar Allan
Paper Book
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court
Twain, Mark
Paper Book
This novel tells the story of Hank Morgan, the quintessential self-reliant New Englander who brings to King Arthur’s Age of Chivalry the “great and beneficent” miracles of nineteenth-century engineering and American ingenuity. Through the collision of past and present, Twain...
Little women
Alcott, Louisa May
Paper Book
Before the new movie adaptation starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, and Timothée Chalamet arrives in theaters, discover Louisa May Alcott's enchanting tale of the March sisters for yourself. The quintessential American family story, Little Women captured readers' hearts...
The call of the wild
London, Jack, (Pianist)
Paper Book
Stolen from his home and family, a dog named Buck must quickly learn the harsh law of survival among the men and dogs of the gold-crazed North. His intelligence, courage, and cunning transform him into a feared leader. As wolves attack and men grow desperate, Buck must heed the call of the wild....
Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Extraordinary voyages
Verne, Jules
Digital file
Alice's adventures in Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis
Paper Book
Sterling Publishing welcomes our new partnership with the legendary artist Robert Ingpen. For his first title in a brand-new affiliation with Sterling, renowned children's artist Robert Ingpen presents a lush new edition of one of the world's most famous stories: Alice's...
On the origin of species
Darwin, Charles
Paper Book
Now in paperback, this richly illustrated edition of Charles Darwins paradigm-shattering masterpiece brings Darwins life and controversial theories into full view. Edited and with an introduction by award-winning science journalist David Quammen, it features more than 300...
Wuthering Heights
Brontë, Emily
Paper Book
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Wuthering Heights, first published in 1847, the year before the author's death at the age of thirty, endures today as perhaps the most powerful and intensely original...
The time machine
Wells, H. G.
Paper Book
A classic sci-fi masterpiece is reissued just in time for the Christmas 2001 release of DreamWorks's motion picture version, starring Guy Pearce (L.A. Confidential) and Jeremy Irons (Brideshead Revisited, Reversal of Fortune) and directed by H.G. Wells's great-grandson, Simon Wells.

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