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The Card Players - Paul Cézanne
Arts · 1894
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Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
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The Naked Maja - Francisco de Goya y Lucientes
Read lessonThe Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth - Thomas Jefferson
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Candide - Voltaire
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Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (Whistler’s Mother) - James McNeill Whistler
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Gray's Anatomy - Henry Gray & Henry Vandyke Carter
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- 1700s · 11
Candide - Voltaire
Arts · 1759
"Jack and Jill"
Arts · 1765
The Swing (The Happy Accidents of the Swing) - Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Arts · 1767
Common Sense - Thomas Paine
Arts · 1775
The Marriage of Figaro - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Arts · 1786
The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell
Arts · 1791
The Old Farmer's Almanac
Arts · 1792
The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology - Thomas Paine
Arts · 1794
The Naked Maja - Francisco de Goya y Lucientes
Arts · 1797
"Humpty Dumpty"
Arts · 1797
"The Rime of the Acient Mariner" - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Arts · 1798
- 1800s · 134
The Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth - Thomas Jefferson
Arts · 1804
The Lady of the Lake
Arts · 1810
"Thanatopsis" - William Cullen Bryant
Arts · 1811
Sense and Sensibility
Arts · 1811
Grimms' Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm
Arts · 1812
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Arts · 1813
Pride and Prejudice
Arts · 1813
Waverley
Arts · 1814
Mansfield Park
Arts · 1814
Emma
Arts · 1816
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Arts · 1818
Farmers' Almanac
Arts · 1818
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog - Caspar David Friedrich
Arts · 1819
Ivanhoe
Arts · 1819
Rip Van Winkle
Arts · 1819
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" - Washington Irving
Arts · 1820
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Arts · 1820
The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth (the Jefferson Bible) - Thomas Jefferson
Arts · 1820
The Spy
Arts · 1821
The Hay Wain - John Constable
Arts · 1821
Tales of a Traveler
Arts · 1824
The Talisman
Arts · 1825
Ave Maria - Franz Schubert
Arts · 1825
The Last of the Mohicans
Arts · 1826
Fanshawe
Arts · 1828
Liberty Leading the People - Eugène Delacroix
Arts · 1830
"Mary Had a Little Lamb"
Arts · 1830
Nocturne No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 9. - Frédéric Chopin
Arts · 1830
The Book of Mormon - Joseph Smith
Arts · 1830
The Heidenmauer
Arts · 1832
Tales of the Alhambra
Arts · 1832
The Pickwick Papers
Arts · 1836
Twice-Told Tales
Arts · 1837
The Adventures of Oliver Twist
Arts · 1837
The Deerslayer
Arts · 1841
"Three Blind Mice"
Arts · 1842
"The Tell-Tale Heart" - Edgar Allan Poe
Arts · 1843
A Christmas Carol
Arts · 1843
The Count Of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Arts · 1844
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Arts · 1844
The Life of Our Lord - Charles Dickens (written, not published)
Arts · 1846
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Arts · 1847
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
Arts · 1847
David Copperfield
Arts · 1849
Kavanagh
Arts · 1849
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Arts · 1850
The Scarlet Letter
Arts · 1850
Moby Dick; or, The Whale - Herman Melville
Arts · 1851
The House of the Seven Gables
Arts · 1851
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Arts · 1852
Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred Lord Tennyson
Arts · 1854
Hard Times
Arts · 1854
Charge of the Light Brigade
Arts · 1854
Song of Hiawatha
Arts · 1855
“Song of Myself” - Walt Whitman
Arts · 1855
Courtship of Miles Standish - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Arts · 1858
The Courtship of Miles Standish
Arts · 1858
Gray's Anatomy - Henry Gray & Henry Vandyke Carter
Arts · 1858
The Courtship of Miles Standish - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Arts · 1858
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Arts · 1859
A Tale of Two Cities
Arts · 1859
Great Expectations
Arts · 1860
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Arts · 1861
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
Arts · 1862
Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe - Édouard Manet
Arts · 1863
Saratoga Race Course (Saratoga Springs, NY)
Arts · 1863
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Arts · 1864
Idylls of the King
Arts · 1864
From the Earth to the Moon
Arts · 1865
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - Lewis Carrol
Arts · 1865
Lucretia - Rembrandt
Arts · 1866
Night on Bald Mountain - Modest Mussorgsky
Arts · 1867
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Arts · 1868
Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy
Arts · 1868
The World Almanac (and Book of Facts)
Arts · 1868
The Innocents Abroad
Arts · 1869
The Innocents Abroad - Mark Twain
Arts · 1869
War & Peace - Leo Tolstoi
Arts · 1869
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Arts · 1870
Pimlico Race Course (Baltimore)
Arts · 1870
An Old-Fashioned Girl
Arts · 1870
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Arts · 1870
Die Walküre ("Ride of the Valkyries") - Richard Wagner
Arts · 1870
Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (Whistler’s Mother) - James McNeill Whistler
Arts · 1871
Little Men - Louisa May Alcott
Arts · 1871
Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys
Arts · 1871
“Jabberwocky“ - Lewis Carroll
Arts · 1871
Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carrol
Arts · 1871
The Window
Arts · 1871
Roughing It
Arts · 1872
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
Arts · 1873
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today - Mark Twain
Arts · 1873
Around the World in Eighty Days
Arts · 1873
1st Kentucky Derby (Horse Racing)
Arts · 1875
Churchill Downs (Louisville)
Arts · 1875
Eight Cousins, or The Aunt Hill
Arts · 1875
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Arts · 1876
Dance of the Hours - Amilcare Ponchielli
Arts · 1876
1st Wimbledon Championships (Tennis)
Arts · 1877
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ - Lew Wallace
Arts · 1880
The Prince and the Pauper
Arts · 1881
"The New Colossus" - Emma Lazarus
Arts · 1883
Treasure Island
Arts · 1883
Life on the Mississippi
Arts · 1883
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte - Georges Seurat
Arts · 1884
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Arts · 1884
A Child's Garden of Verses
Arts · 1885
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Arts · 1886
A Study of Scarlet
Arts · 1887
The Red Vineyard - Vincent van Gogh
Arts · 1888
"Scheherazade" - Rimsky-Korsakov
Arts · 1888
The Starry Night - Vincent van Gogh
Arts · 1889
The Kiss - Rodin
Arts · 1889
The Master of Ballantrae
Arts · 1889
Crossing the Bar
Arts · 1889
Wheat Stacks with Reaper - Vincent van Gogh
Arts · 1890
Portrait of Dr. Gachet - Vincent van Gogh
Arts · 1890
Meules - Claude Monet
Arts · 1890
Irises - Vincent van Gogh
Arts · 1890
The Sign of the Four
Arts · 1890
The American Claimant
Arts · 1892
Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?) - Paul Gauguin
Arts · 1892
"The Yellow Wallpaper" - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Arts · 1892
The Nutcracker Suite - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Arts · 1892
A Translation Harmony and Analysis of the Gospels - Leo Tolstoy
Arts · 1892
The Card Players - Paul Cézanne
Arts · 1894
"The Story of an Hour" - Kate Chopin
Arts · 1894
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
Arts · 1894
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
Arts · 1895
Tom Sawyer, Detective
Arts · 1896
The Gospel in Brief - Leo Tolstoy
Arts · 1896
Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand
Arts · 1897
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Arts · 1897
The Gulf Stream - Winslow Homer
Arts · 1899
