19th Century Literature
From Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass to Mamsfield Park, from The Posthumous Papers Of the Pickwick Club to Ralph Waldo Emerson a Descriptive Bibliography, we can help you find the 19th century literature books you are looking for. As the world's largest independent marketplace for new, used and rare books, you always get the best in service and value when you buy from Biblio.co.nz, and all of your purchases are backed by our return guarantee.
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through
the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, tell the story of a young
girl in a fantasy world filled with peculiar, anthropomorphic
creatures. The classic tale of literary nonsense takes the reader on an
exploration of logic and absurdities. The Alice books — sometimes
combined or referred to with the abbreviated title Alice in Wonderland —
have been translated into at least 97 languages with over a hundred
different editions.... Read more about this item
the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, tell the story of a young
girl in a fantasy world filled with peculiar, anthropomorphic
creatures. The classic tale of literary nonsense takes the reader on an
exploration of logic and absurdities. The Alice books — sometimes
combined or referred to with the abbreviated title Alice in Wonderland —
have been translated into at least 97 languages with over a hundred
different editions.... Read more about this item
A Tale Of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
Written by Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel that follows Manette, a French doctor imprisoned for 18 long years in Paris’s Bastille. Following his release, he goes to live in London with his daughter Lucie, who had never met him and believed him to be dead. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution and Reign of Terror, A Tale of Two Cities is a fictitious story that falls both into the historical and adventure genres. The famous book is one of the...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
In Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe, the title character Uncle Tom is a long-suffering slave, loyal to both his faith and his master. Presented with an opportunity to escape, he instead chooses to remain in slavery to avoid embarrassing his master. After being sold to a slave trader, Tom suffers brutal treatment and is eventually beaten to death for his refusal to betray his friends — made to represent an ideal of true Christianity. Enormously popular (it was the best-selling novel of the...
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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter: A Romance (1850) is considered the American author Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'masterwork.' A work of historical fiction set in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Puritan settlement of 1642-1949 itells the story of Hester Prynne, who after having a child as a result of an extra-marital affair attempts to live a life of repentance and dignity although she is marked by having to wear a Scarlett A on her person. Throughout the novel, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and...
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Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
Published in 1820 by author Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe is an influential historical romance novel set in medieval England. Ivanhoe represents a departure from Scott’s other novels, and remains his most well-known work. Scott explores many different themes in Ivanhoe, chief among them the rivalry and tension between the Saxons and Normans, feudal injustice as well as the oppression of England’s Jewish communities at the time.Critical reception was very positive at the time of publication, and Scott is...
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Life On the Mississippi
by Mark Twain
Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before and after the American Civil War. The book begins with a brief history of the river from its discovery by Hernando de Soto in 1542. It continues with anecdotes of Twain's training as a steamboat pilot, as the 'cub' of an experienced pilot. He describes, with great affection, the science of navigating the ever-changing Mississippi River.
Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
Mansfield Park is a novel by Jane Austen, written at Chawton Cottage between 1812 and 1814. It was published in July 1814 by Thomas Egerton, who published Jane Austen's two earlier novels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. When the novel reached a second edition, its publication was taken over by John Murray, who also published its successor, Emma.
A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court
by Mark Twain
The original American satiristCracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, Hank Morgan wakes to find himself in King Arthur's England. Branded by Twain's aptitude for broad comedy and biting social satire, the grim truths of Twain's Camelot-fear, injustice, ignorance-resound as clearly now as when it was written
The Song Of Hiawatha
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From the book:The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. They were collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the reknowned historian, pioneer explorer, and geologist. He was superintendent of Indian affairs for Michigan from 1836 to 1841. Schoolcraft married Jane, O-bah-bahm-wawa-ge-zhe-go-qua (The Woman of the Sound Which the Stars Make Rushing Through the...
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The Pickwick Papers
by Charles Dickens
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (commonly known as The Pickwick Papers) is the first novel published by Charles Dickens. The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club catapulted the 24-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the lover Tupman, the sportsman Winkle &, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr. Pickwick, & his cockney Sancho Panza, Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell...
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Tess Of the D'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, was first published as a censored and serialized version in the British illustrated newspaper, The Graphic in 1891. An intimate portrait of a woman, one of literature's most admirable and tragic heroines...Tess Durbeyfield knows what it is to work hard and expect little. But her life is about to veer from the path trod by her mother and grandmother. When her ne'er-do-well father learns that his family is the last of a long noble line, the d'Urbervilles, he sends...
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Works Of Charles Dickens
by Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English author of many notable works, including Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, and A Tale of Two Cities. Multiple publishing firms have released bound collections of his works. Notable sets of Dickens Works have been published by Chapman and Hall in a 24 piece set, and Baker and Taylor in a 12 volume set.
Captains Courageous
by Rudyard Kipling
Harvey Cheyne is the over-indulged son of a millionaire. When he falls overboard from an ocean liner her is rescued by a Portuguese fisherman and, initially against his will, joins the crew of the We're Here for a summer. Through the medium of an exciting adventure story, Captains Courageous (1897) deals with a boy who, like Mowgli in The Jungle Book, is thrown into an entirely alien environment.
The Life and Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby
by Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby is left responsible for his mother and sister when his father dies. The novel follows his attempt to succeed in supporting them, despite his uncle Ralph's antagonistic lack of belief in him. It is one of Dickens' early comic novels.
Kenilworth
by Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh in 1771. Educated for the law, he obtained the office of sheriff-depute of Selkirkshire in 1799 and in 1806 the office of clerk of session, a post whose duties he fulfilled for some twenty-five years. His lifelong interest in Scottish antiquity and the ballads which recorded Scottish history led him to try his hand at narrative poems of adventure and action. The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), Marmion (1808), and The Lady of the Lake (1810) made his reputation as...
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Rob Roy
by Sir Walter Scott
Young Frank Osbaldistone, sent to live in Scotland, is drawn to the powerful figure of Rob Roy MacGregor, who, with his wife, fights for justice and dignity for Scotland. Twists of plot and a romantic outlaw's cunning escapes make this a classic epic.
Orley Farm
by Anthony Trollope
When Joseph Mason of Groby Park, Yorkshire, died, he left his estate to his family. A codicil to his will, however, left Orley Farm (near London) to his much younger second wife and infant son. The will and the codicil were in her handwriting, and there were three witnesses, one of whom was no longer alive. A bitterly fought court case confirmed the codicil.
Twenty years pass. Lady Mason lives at Orley farm with her adult son, Lucius. Samuel Dockwrath, a tenant, is asked to leave by Lucius, who wants to... Read more about this item
Twenty years pass. Lady Mason lives at Orley farm with her adult son, Lucius. Samuel Dockwrath, a tenant, is asked to leave by Lucius, who wants to... Read more about this item
Felix Holt, the Radical
by George Eliot
Felix Holt, the Radical is a social novel written by George Eliot about political disputes in a small English town at the time of the First Reform Act of 1832. In January 1868, Eliot penned an article entitled "Address to Working Men, by Felix Holt". This came on the heels of the Second Reform Act of 1867 which expanded the right to vote beyond the landed classes and was written in the character of, and signed by, Felix Holt.
19th Century Literature Books & Ephemera
The Posthumous Papers Of the Pickwick Club
by Dickens, Charles
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (commonly known as The Pickwick Papers) is the first novel published by Charles Dickens. The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club catapulted the 24-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the lover Tupman, the sportsman Winkle &, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr. Pickwick, & his cockney Sancho Panza, Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell...
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
by Carroll, Lewis
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through
the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, tell the story of a young
girl in a fantasy world filled with peculiar, anthropomorphic
creatures. The classic tale of literary nonsense takes the reader on an
exploration of logic and absurdities. The Alice books — sometimes
combined or referred to with the abbreviated title Alice in Wonderland —
have been translated into at least 97 languages with over a hundred
different editions.... Read more about this item
the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, tell the story of a young
girl in a fantasy world filled with peculiar, anthropomorphic
creatures. The classic tale of literary nonsense takes the reader on an
exploration of logic and absurdities. The Alice books — sometimes
combined or referred to with the abbreviated title Alice in Wonderland —
have been translated into at least 97 languages with over a hundred
different editions.... Read more about this item
Poems
by Wilde, Oscar
From the book:Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyesSee nothing save their own unlovely woe,Whose minds know nothing, nothing care to know, -But that the roar of thy Democracies,Thy reigns of Terror, thy great Anarchies,Mirror my wildest passions like the seaAnd give my rage a brother -! Liberty!For this sake only do thy dissonant criesDelight my discreet soul, else might all kingsBy bloody knout or treacherous cannonadesRob nations of their rights inviolateAnd I remain unmoved - and yet, and...
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
by Dickens, Charles
New York: Crown Publishers / Avenel Books, 1983. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's dust-jacket. 625 pages. First edition facsimile edition, first printing thus with full letter line. With illustrations by Phiz [Halbot Knight Browne]. No previous ownership marks. Page margins toned from age, as per usual with this printing. Else a clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good in a very good dust jacket. .
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NZ$22.01
Wee Wifie
by Carey, Rosa Nouchette
No dust jacket. Decorated green fabric cover with edgewear. Black decorationon front and spine, with gilt print on spine only. Rear cover lightly stained, darkened and worn on the spine. Pages fairly tight and tanned. A hinge split is beginning in the front endpaper, and has happened at a few other places, but not so anything is coming loose. This book has been turned into ebooks and reprinted as replicas. What I have been unable to find is any copies on the market of the early versions as is this...
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NZ$59.48
Tess of the D'urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
Wordsworth Classics 1995 Paperback. Good.
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NZ$13.10
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - with 88 original illustrations
by Mark Twain
New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - with 88 original illustrations.
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NZ$27.79
Ivanhoe
by Scott, Sir Walter
Odhams Press Limited, 1930-01-01. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 17 to 19 cm tall (12mo). Hardcover. Red cloth covers Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.
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NZ$8.48
Works of Charles Dickens (11 Vol)
by Charles Dickens
A.L. Burt Publisher, no date given. Hardcover. Very good/None. Assumed printed circa 1900. Contains Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Barnaby Rduge, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Martin Chuzzlewit, Nicholas Nickleby, Dombey and Son, Old Curiosity Shop, Our Mutual Friend, History of England. Attractively bound with gold gilt top edges and lettering on spines. All pages are clean and unamarked aside from previous owner's name on the flyleaf of one volume. Minor rubbing and shelf wear to boards and...
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NZ$280.40
Tales of a Wayside Inn
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
A periodical version of the Riverside Literature Series. While the cover shows the grime of its 132 years, it remains intact, with clean, tight and intact pages as well. This is the first of three parts of the Tales. The others would be numbers 34 and 35 in the sequence. While the cover is dated February 1888, there is a 1891 copyright date on the back of the title page. There are a couple of illustrations and a map of Norway. Owner's name faintly written in two locations on the front cover.
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NZ$27.62
Phineas Redux
by Trollope. Anthony
Very little wear. Pages clean, tight and unmarked. Originally published in 1874, this could be looked upon as historical fiction, except is was more like current events when Trollope wrote it, making commentary about 19th century British politics. This is the fourth of six novels in Trollope's Palliser series.
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NZ$10.62
The Balloon, and Other Stories
by Woodworth, Francis C
A compact little book with an embossed red fabric cover, coming apart at the top of the spine, both front and back. Contains seven illustrated short stories for children, each with a moral to teach. A number of inscriptions are found on the first few pages, the earliest of which documents a gifting in 1866 (see photo #5). An additional inscription documents the finding of this book in an attic in 1945.
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NZ$11.90
Rob Roy
by Sir Walter Scott
Handling wear to the cover, bumping to the corners and spine, a few marks to the boards and a small amount of foxing to the intro pages. The contents are clean, bright and free from markings or inscriptions.
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NZ$21.24
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
by Hardy, Thomas
Bantam Books, 1981. good paperback. Mass Market Paper Back. Good.
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NZ$10.20
The Higher Criticism And The Verdict Of The Monuments
by Rev. A. H. Sayce
8vo. x + (2) + 575 + (1) + 34pp including Publisher's list at rear. Publisher's plain dark blue cloth covers, gilt lettering with a small cartouche on spine, bevelled edges. Original black eps. Covers : slight rubs top/bottom of spine + corners, faint patchy marks. Contents : Internal hinges cracked, but tightly bound at gutter, a very Clean tight copy. Scarce copy. Please view the photographs for more information.All items will be posted within 1 to 2 working days after payment has been received. Items...
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NZ$209.50
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
by Twain, Mark
1979. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 1979. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. 475 pages. All the original illustrations by Daniel Carter Beard. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [A publication of the Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library]. In the book, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut named Hank Morgan receives a severe blow to the head and is somehow transported in time and space to England during the reign of King...
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NZ$142.09
Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
John G Murdoch & Co, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. 360 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Stamps to front endpaper. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with moderate foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have been moderately rub worn. Noticeable shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a little frayed Spine ends are crushed, with noticeable splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water...
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NZ$12.52
Rob Roy
by Scott Sir Walter
Uncut and in original printer's soft covers with Didot 5-point star. Pagination and chapter numbers start anew for each volume. Vol.1 217 pp.; Vol.2 216 pp.; Vol.3 233 PP.By the author of "Waverly," "Guy Mannering," and "The Antiquary". Ref. Kohler(1) 106(with illustration. Contact bookseller for full detailed description.
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NZ$683.14
The Works of Charles Dickens
by Charles Dickens
P.F. Collier Publisher, no date given. Hardcover. Very good/None. Complete in six volumes, illustrated throughout. Collier's Unabridged Edition, assumed printed circa 1880. Vol I: Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Our Mutual Friend; Vol II: Great Expectations, Little Dorrit, Martin Chuzzlewit; Vol III: Nicholas Nickleby, A Tale of Two Cities, Dombey and Son; Vol IV: The Old Curiosity Shop, Sketches by Boz, Hard Times, Master Humphrey's Clock, A Walk in the Work House, A Christmas Tree; Vol V:...
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NZ$424.85
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Twain, Mark
New York: The Modern Library. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1949. Hardcover. Text is clean. Pages tanning lightly. Cover shows normal wear, corners and spine lightly bumped. Dust jacket shows wear. DJ spine shows some sunning. Obvious chipping to spine ends, tear to front panel. Previous owner name embossed on front free endpaper. ; Toledano binding style '8', Kent Endpapers, Dust jacket style 'i' listing 393 titles. Homeschool Curricula Reference: [Bloom, Who Should We Then Read?...
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NZ$29.74
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (The new Wessex Thomas Hardy)
by Hardy, Thomas
Paperback. Very Good.
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NZ$4.04
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court: Original Illustrations: 100th Anniversary Collection
by Twain, Mark
Paperback. Very Good.
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NZ$7.51
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
by Smith, Adam
Book shows wear as might be expected after over 125 years. The cover is two-toned tan and blue fabric, with gilt print and decoration on the front and spine. The fabric over the spine is shiny and unworn (seems to have some kind of coating) while it is dull and pitted on the front and rear. There is some wear at the corners and the head and tail of the spine as well. A hinge split in front has resulted in the free endpaper to the half-title page coming loose (3 sheets). The next packet of six sheets is...
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NZ$48.86
THE LIFE & ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY
by CHARLES DICKENS. ILLUSTRATED BY PHIZ
CHAPMAN & HALL, LONDON, 1839 HARDBACK BOUND IN A 19TH CENTURY HALF LEATHER BINDING, NUMEROUS FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS, AN EARLY ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION WITH ISSUE POINTS SUCH AS CHAPMAN & HALL TO BOTTOM MARGIN OF THE FIRST FOUR PLATES AFTER FRONTIS, FRONTIS PLATE NOT LISTED IN THE PLATES LIST, VISITER FOR SISTER ON PAGE 123 & LATTER FOR LETTER ON PAGE 160. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 9 x 6 INCHES WITH 16 + 624 PAGES. SOME RUBBING TO MARBLED BOARDS, CORNERS BUMPED, INSCRIPTION DATED 1841 TO FRONT...
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NZ$680.42
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second
by Macaulay, Thomas Babington
No dust jacket. Fabric over the spine has taken its leave at some point in the past 160+ years. The remaining cover is quite worn, of an indeterminate color due to many stains. A small group of pages, including the cover page and frontispiece, has come loose. The remaining pages are tight and intact, with a lot of spotting and many very dark, yet still readable pages. This book is four volumes in one, covering many hundreds of years of English history. An understandably rare book after all these years....
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NZ$19.97
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Mark Twain
Penguin Publishing Group, 1963. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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NZ$10.54
