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The Era of Romance and Revolution

1762 - 1859

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  1. Jean Jacques Rousseau, France, 1762. The Social Contract.
  2. Adam Smith, Scotland, 1776. Concerning the Wealth of Nations.
  3. Immanuel Kant, Germany, 1785. Groundwork on the Metaphysics of Morals
  4. Hamilton, Madison and Jay, US, 1786. The Federalist Papers.
  5. Edmund Burke, Ireland, 1790. Reflections on the French Revolution.
  6. Thomas Paine, England, 1791. The Rights of Man.
  7. Mary Wollstonecraft, England, 1792. Vindication on the Rights of Women.
  8. James Boswell, England. 1791. The Life of Samuel Johnson.
  9. William Blake, England, 1794. Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience.
  10. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany, 1808. Faust.
  11. George Fredrick Hegel, Germany, 1807. Phenomenology of Mind.
  12. Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats, England, 1812-1818. Poems.
  13. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, England, 1818. Frankenstein.
  14. Stendhal, France, 1830. The Red and the Black.
  15. Alexis de Tocqueville, France, 1835. Democracy in America.
  16. Alexandre Pushkin, Russia, 1837. Eugene Onegin
  17. Jane Austen, England, 1837. Pride and Prejudice.
  18. Edgar Allen Poe, US, 1839. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque.
  19. Nikolai Gogol, Russia, 1842. Dead Souls.
  20. Soren Kierkegaard, Denmark, 1843. Fear and Trembling.
  21. Ralph Waldo Emerson, US. 1847. Poems.
  22. Charlotte Bronte, England, 1847. Jane Eyre.
  23. William Makepeace Thackeray, England, 1848. Vanity Fair.
  24. Karl Marx, Frederick Engels. 1848. The Communist Manifesto.
  25. Herman Melville, US, 1851. Moby Dick.
  26. Walt Whitman, US, 1855. Leaves of Grass.
  27. Henry David Thoreau, US, 1854. Walden.
  28. Charles Baudelaire, France, 1857. Le Fleurs de Mal.
  29. Gustave Flaubert, France 1856. Madam Bovary.
  30. John Stuart Mill, England, 1859. On Liberty.