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Below are the titles of the 19th-century texts that Annotated has produced editions on or is in the process of editing, along with suggested resources for each of those texts. We prioritize the production of our editions according to the texts most commonly used in middle school, high school, and college classrooms as well as those for which we receive sponsorship and frequent requests.

 

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Featured Edition

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"The Cask of Amontillado"  by Edgar Allan Poe

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von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang (1749-1832). 
The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) by Goethe
Faust, Parts I & II (1808, 1832) by Goethe

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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770-1831).

Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) by Hegel

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Scott, Walter (1770–1850). The Pirate (1822)

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Wordsworth, William (1770–1850). Selected Poetry

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772–1834). Selected Poetry

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Austen, Jane (1775-1817). 

Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility (1811) by Jane Austen

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• Suggested Audiobook of Pride and Prejudice (Free)

• Suggested Audiobook of Sense and Sensibility (Free)

• Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts

• In Our Time - Sensibility (BBC Podcast)

• Pride and Prejudice 200th Anniversary Podcast (BBC)

• The Historical Context of 'Pride and Prejudice' (NPR)

• Crash Course Literature: Pride and Prejudice (Part 1)

• Crash Course Literature: Pride and Prejudice (Part 2)

• Jane Austen (The School of Life)

• Stuff You Missed in History Class: Austen (Podcast)

• Jane Austen (Oxford Bibliographies)

• At Home with the Georgians (Documentary)

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Irving, Washington (1783-1859).

"Rip Van Winkle" (1819) by Washington Irving

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820) by Irving

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Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859).

Children's and Household Tales (1812, 1815) 

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De Quincey, Thomas (1785–1859).

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821)

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George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824). Selected Poetry

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Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851).

The Last of the Mohicans (1826) by Cooper

The Red Rover (1827) by James Fenimore Cooper

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822). Selected Poetry

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Keats, John (1795–1821). Selected Poetry

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Shelley, Mary (1797-1851).

Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley

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Balzac, Honoré (1799-1850). Le Père Goriot (1835)

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Dumas, Alexandre (1802-1870).

The Count of Monte Cristo (1844) by Alexandre Dumas

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Hugo, Victor (1802-1885).

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) by Victor Hugo

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882). Selected Writings

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864).

"Young Goodman Brown" (1835) by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The Birth-Mark" (1843) by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806–1861). Selected Poetry

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Mill, John Stuart (1806–1873). Selected Prose

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882). Selected Verse

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Northup, Solomon (1808-1863). 12 Years a Slave (1853)

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Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849).

Annotated™ Edition: "The Cask of Amontillado" (1846)

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838) by Poe

"The Oval Portrait" (1842) by Edgar Allan Poe

"The Masque of the Red Death" (1842) by Poe

"The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843) by Edgar Allan Poe

"The Black Cat" (1843) by Edgar Allan Poe

"The Purloined Letter" (1844) by Edgar Allan Poe

"The Imp of the Perverse" (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe

Selected Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe

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• Suggested Audiobook: "The Cask of Amontillado"

• Suggested Audiobook: The Selected Works of Poe

• Suggested Audiobook: "Masque of the Red Death"

• Suggested Audiobook: "The Raven" (Free)

• Open Book: The Work of Poe (BBC Podcast)

• The Horror Writer: Edgar Allan Poe (PBS Podcast)

• The Death of Poe (Stuff You Missed in History Class)

• The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe (Podcast)

• Edgar Allan Poe (True Crime Stories Podcast) [Pt 1]

• Edgar Allan Poe (True Crime Stories Podcast) [Pt 2]

• Rue Morgue & Amontillado (Overdue Podcast)

• Summary and Analysis of Poe’s ‘Amontillado’

• Extraordinary Tales (Animated Poe Anthology)

• The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore

• Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site

• The Raven Society (University of Virginia)

• Edgar Allan Poe Digital Collection (Harry Ransom)

• The Edgar Allan Poe Review

• Poe Studies Literary Journal (Wiley Online Library)

• Edgar Allan Poe (Oxford Bibliographies)

• American Renaissance (Oxford Bibliographies)

• Detective Fiction (Oxford Bibliographies)

• The Poe Museum

• An Exploration of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

• Edgar Allan Poe (Poetry Foundation)

• HouseofUsher.net

• Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive (PBS Documentary)

• The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe (Doc by Biography)

• Terror of the Soul: Edgar Allan Poe Biography (Doc)

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Gogol, Nikolai (1809-1852). “The Nose” (1836)

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Darwin, Charles (1809-1882).

The Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin

The Descent of Man (1871) by Charles Darwin

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Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892). Selected Verse

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Gaskell, Elizabeth (1810–1865).

Mary Barton (1848) by Elizabeth Gaskell

"The Old Nurse's Story" (1852) by Elizabeth Gaskell

North and South (1855) by Elizabeth Gaskell

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Dickens, Charles (1812-1870).

The Pickwick Papers (1837) by Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist (1838) by Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens

David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens

Bleak House (1853) by Charles Dickens

Little Dorrit  (1855) by Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens

Great Expectations (1861) by Charles Dickens

Our Mutual Friend (1865) by Charles Dickens

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• Suggested Audiobook of A Christmas Carol (Audible)

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•  Suggested Audiobook of Bleak House (Audible) 

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•  Suggested Audiobook of A Tale of Two Cities (Audible) 

•  Suggested Audiobook of Great Expectations (Free) 

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• In Our Time - Dickens (BBC Podcast)

• Charles Dickens (The Victorian Web)

• Charles Dickens (British Library)

• Charles Dickens (The School of Life)

• Charles Dickens (Oxford Bibliographies) [Version I]

• Charles Dickens (Oxford Bibliographies) [Version II]

• The Historical Novel (Oxford Bibliographies)

• Social-Problem Novel (Oxford Bibliographies)

• Satire (Oxford Bibliographies)

• Serialization (Oxford Bibliographies)

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• Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (BBC Radio 3)

• Dreaming Dickens: A Dream-Walk with Dickens

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• Dickens’s London with Simon Callow (YouTube)

• Why Should You Read Dickens? (TED Ed Video)

• Biography - Charles Dickens (Documentary)

• Dickens (aka Uncovering the Real Dickens [Doc])

• Charles Dickens's England (Documentary)

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Browning, Robert (1812–1889). Selected Poetry

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Jacobs, Harriet (1813–1897).

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Jacobs

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Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855).

Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë

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• To Walk Invisible (Documentary)

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Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862).

"Civil Disobedience" (1849) by Henry David Thoreau

Walden (1854) by Henry David Thoreau

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Brontë, Emily (1818-1848).

Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë

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• To Walk Invisible (Documentary)​

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Marx, Karl (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895).

The Communist Manifesto (1848) by Marx and Engels

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Douglass, Frederick (~1818-1895).

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)

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