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The Leavenworth Case (1878), subtitled A Lawyer's Story, is an American detective novel and the first novel by Anna Katharine Green. Set in New York City, it concerns the murder of a retired merchant ...
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The Law and the Lady is a detective story, published in 1875 by Wilkie Collins. It is not quite as sensational in style as The Moonstone and The Woman in White.
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Put Yourself in His Place is a 1912 American silent short drama based on an 1870 English novel by Charles Reade. The film was adapted and directed by Theodore Marston, and stars William Garwood and Ma ...
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The Fallen Leaves is an 1879 novel by Wilkie Collins. It details Amelius Goldenheart, an American Christian Socialist's, sojourn to England after exile from his Utopian commune, and his difficulties when ...
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Ishmael is a novel written by E.D.E.N. Southworth. Ishmael is the hero of the 1863–64 serialization Self-Made; or Out of the Depths. He is of low birth but has worked to establish himself in society as ...
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Bishbriksha (English: The Poison Tree) is a Bengali novel written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. The novel was published serially in Bangadarshan. The novel deals with widow remarriage.
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The Philistines (Russian: Мещане, Meshchane) is a three-part novel by Alexey Pisemsky started in 1873 and finished, according to the author's autograph, on 24 October 1877. Originally serialized by Mikhail ...
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In the Forests (Russian: В лесах, V lesakh) is an 1874 novel by Pavel Melnikov-Pechersky, first part of a dilogy, completed in 1881 by the novel On the Hills.
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Viola Tricolor is an 1874 novella by the German writer Theodor Storm. It tells the story of a man who remarries after his wife has died, and how the new woman feels insufficient in her role as wife and ...
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An Ideal City (French Une ville idéale) is an 1875 book by Jules Verne. The book is about music recitals being heard all over the world after being transmitted from the wires connected to an artists's ...
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The Golden Rooster (Ոսկի աքաղաղ Voski ak’aghagh) is an 1870 Armenian language novel by the novelist Raffi. The novel was adapted into a play by the Hamazgayin Theatre. Its English translation by Donald ...
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From Nowhere to the North Pole is an 1875 children's novel by English author Tom Hood. Hood's book was one of the many Alice in Wonderland imitations published in the 19th century. In it the hero Frank ...
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Cherry Ripe is a romance novel by the British writer Ellen Buckingham Mathews under her pen name of Helen Matthews, which was first published in 1878. Like much of her other work it is a sentimental rural ...
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A Peep Behind the Scenes is a British novel by O.F. Walton, first published in 1877. It portrays the life of a travelling fair and in particular Rosalie, a girl who works as part of a theatre troupe under ...
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Cumandá o Un drama entre salvajes (English: Cumanda or A Drama Between Savages) is a classic Ecuadorian novel by Juan León Mera. The novel was written in 1877.
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The History of a Town is a fictional chronicle by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin first published in 1870 and regarded as the major satirical Russian novel of the 19th century. Originally it came out subtitled: ...
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The Manchester Man is a novel by the British writer Isabella Banks. It was first published in three volumes in 1876. The story follows the life of a Manchester resident, Jabez Clegg, during the nineteenth ...
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Juan Moreira is an Argentine novel by Eduardo Gutiérrez. It was written during the winter of 1879 and is considered one of the most important works of Argentine literature. Shortly after its publication ...
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The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana is an 1871 novel by the American author Edward Eggleston. The novel originated from a series of stories written for Hearth and Home, a pe ...