Best 19TH Century Literature
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Published in 1851, Herman Melville's *Moby-Dick* is a sprawling novel exploring themes of obsession, revenge, and humanity’s relationship with nature through the pursuit of a white whale by Captain Ahab.
Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables* is an epic 1862 French historical novel exploring themes of justice, poverty, redemption, and revolution through the lives of characters in post-Napoleonic France.
Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is a seminal 19th-century novel exploring an intensely passionate and ultimately destructive relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. The story unfolds across multiple generations on the bleak Yorkshire moors, examining themes of obsession, social clas...
Emily Brontës raw and untamed novel is the epitome of Gothic romance. It tells a story of obsessive, destructive passion between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. The novel rejects polite society's conventions, favoring wild moorland landscapes and volatile emotions. It is passionate, dark, and end...
