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...
