The School for Scandal Sheridan 1777 119 The Task Cowper 1785 121 Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Burns 1786 123 The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne White 1789 125 Reflections on the Revolution in France Burke 1790 127 Rights of Man Paine 1791 129 The Life of Samuel Johnson Boswell 1791 131 Lyrical Ballads Wordsworth 1798 133 A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty Irving 1809 135 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Byron 1812 137 Pride and Prejudice Austen 1813 139 Christabel Coleridge 1816 141 Ivanhoe Scott 1820 143 Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems Keats 1820 145 Adonais Shelley 1821 147 Elia Lamb 1823 149 Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F.R.S. Pepys 1825 151 The Last of the Mohicans Cooper 1826 153 Pericles and Aspasia Landor 1836 155 The Pickwick Papers Dickens 1837 157 Sartor Resartus Carlyle 1834 159 Nature Emerson 1836 161 History of the Conquest of Peru Prescott 1847 163 The Raven and Other Poems Poe 1845 165 Jane Eyre Brontë 1847 167 Evangeline Longfellow 1847 169 Sonnets Mrs. Browning 1847 171 The Biglow Papers Lowell 1848 173 Vanity Fair Thackeray 1848 175 The History of England Macaulay 1849 177 In Memoriam Tennyson 1850 179 The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne 1850 181 Uncle Tom's Cabin Mrs. Stowe 1852 183 The Stones of Venice Ruskin 1851 185 Men and Women Browning 1855 187 The Rise of the Dutch Republic Motley 1856 189 Adam Bede George Eliot 1859 191 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Darwin 1859 193