Books to 1800 Flashcards
The Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu
[Japan]
11th Century
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Luo Guanzhong
[China]
14th Century
The Water Margin
Shi Nai’an & Luo Guanzong
[China]
1370
The Golden Ass
Lucius Apuleius
[Latin]
1469
Tirant Io Blanc
Joanot Martorell
[Catalan]
1490
La Celestina
Fernando de Rojas
[Spain]
1499
Amadis of Gaul
Carci Rodriguez de Montalvo
[Spain]
1508
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Francois Rabelais
[France]
1532-1564
The Lusiad
Luis Vaz de Camoes
[Portugal]
1572
Monkey: A Journey to the West
Wu Cheng’en
{China]
1592
Unfortunate Traveller
Thomas Nashe
[England]
1594
Thomas of Reading
Thomas Deloney
[England]
1600
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
[Spain]
1605-1615
The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
[Spain]
1617
The Conquest of New Spain
Bernal Diaz del Castillo
[Spain]
1632
The Adventurous Simplicissimus
Hans von Grimmelshausen
[Germany]
1668
The Princess of Cleves
Marie-Madelaine Pioch de Lavergne, Comtessa de La Fayette
[France]
1678
Oroonoko
Aphra Behn
[England]
1688
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
[England]
1719
Love in Excess
Eliza Haywood
[England]
1719
Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe
[England]
1722
Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan Swift
[Ireland]
1726
A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift
[Ireland]
1729
Joseph Andrews
Henry Fielding
[England]
1742
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
J. Arbuthnot; J. Gay; T. Parnell; A. Pope; J. Swift
[Ireland, Scotland, England]
1713 (beginning)
Pamela
Samuel Richardson
[England]
1742
Clarissa
Samuel Richardson
[England]
1749
Tom Jones
Henry Fielding
[England]
1749
Fanny Hill
John Cleland
[England]
1749
Peregrine Pickle
Tobias George Smollett
[Scotland]
1751
The Female Quixote
Charlotte Lennox
[US]
1752
Candide
Voltaire
[France]
1759
Rasselas
Samuel Johnson
[England]
1759
Julie (The New Eoise)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
[Switzerland]
1760
Emile (On Education)
Jean-Jaques Rousseau
[Switzerland]
1762
The Castle of Otranto
Horace Wapole
[England]
1765
The Vicar of Wakefield
Oliver Goldsmith
[Ireland]
1766
Tristram Shandy
Laurence Sterne
[Ireland]
1759-67
A Sentimental Journey
Laurence Sterne
[Ireland]
1768
The Man of Feeling
Henry Mackenzie
[Scotland]
1771
Humphry Clinker
Tobias George Smollett
[Scotland]
1771
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[Germany]
1774
Evelina
Fanny Burney
[England]
1778
Reveries of a Solitary Walker
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
[Switzerland]
1782
Dangerous Liaisons
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
[France]
1782
Confessions
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
[Switzerland]
1782
The 120 Days of Sodom
Marquis de Sade
[France]
1785
Anton Reiser
Karl Philipp Moritz
[Germany]
1785
Vathek
William Beckford
[England]
1786
Justine
Marquis de Sade
[France]
1791
A Dream of Red Mansions (The Story of the Stone)
Cao Xueqin
[China]
1791
The Adventures of Caleb Williams (Things as They Are)
William Godwin
[England]
1794
The Interesting Narrative
Olaudah Equiano
[Nigeria]
1794
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Radcliffe
[England]
1794
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[Germany]
1795
The Monk: A Romance
M.G. Lewis
[England]
1796
Camilla
Fanny Burney
[England]
1796
Jacques the Fatalist
Denis Diderot
[France]
1796
The Nun
Denis Diderot
[France]
1796
Hyperion
Friedrich Holderlin
[Germany]
1797