Category Archives: Published before 1800

The Life of Harriot Stuart

Author(s): Charlotte Lennox The Life of Harriot Stuart, Written by Herself presents a complex and...

The Fortunate Foundlings

Author(s): Eliza Haywood A story of love and adventure, following the fortunes of a young...

The Female American

Author(s): Unca Eliza Winkfield “The Female American; Or The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield, Written...

The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems

Author(s): Geoffrey ChaucerD. Laing Purves Generally considered to be the first book written in English...

The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Volume 4

Author(s): Marguerite of Navarre THE HEPTAMERON (here Volume 4 of 5), first published posthumously in...

The Barnaby’s in America: Final sequel to The Widow Barnaby

Author(s): Frances Milton Trollope I scruple not to confess that with all her faults, and...

The Coquette, Or The History of Eliza Wharton

Author(s): Hannah Webster Foster The classic early American epistolary novel about the seduction and ruin...

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom

Author(s): Tobias Smollett You can call me Dr. Fathom. Or Count Fathom. But I’m not...

The Adventures of Roderick Random

Author(s): Tobias Smollett I am Roderick Random. This is the contemporary story of my struggle...

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Volume I)

Author(s): Tobias Smollett The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle is a picaresque novel by the Scottish...

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Volume II)

Author(s): Tobias Smollett Volume II continues the story of the fortunes and misfortunes of the...

Mary: A Fiction

Author(s): Mary Wollstonecraft Eliza, Mary’s mother, is obsessed with novels, rarely considers anyone but herself,...

Mary: A Fiction (version 2)

Author(s): Mary Wollstonecraft Mary: A Fiction, published in 1788, is a tragic story that decries...

Moll Flanders – Version 2

Author(s): Daniel Defoe This warm and witty novel presents itself as the first person narration...

Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 3

Author(s): Laurence Sterne This is volume 3 of 4.The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy,...

Arthur Mervyn

Author(s): Charles Brockden Brown Arthur Mervyn is the story of a young man from the...