Explore 180 quotes from the 1880s

Jerome, Jerome Klapa. "Three Men in a Boat." Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel, edited by Jeremy Lewis. Penguin Classics, 2000, ch. 3.

Mallarme, Stephane. Selected Letters of Stéphane Mallarmé. University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Haggard, H. Rider. King Solomon's Mines. Penguin Classics, 2008.

Dickinson, Emily. "There's a certain Slant of light." Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, edited by Cristanne Miller. Belknap Press, 2016, I. 1.

Ibsen, Henrik. "Ghosts." A Doll's House and Other Plays, translated by Deborah Dawkin and Erik Skuggevik. Penguin Classics, 2016, act 1.

Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2012, pt. 1, ch. 2.

Nietzsche, Frederick. Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ: or How to Philosophize with a Hammer, translated by Walter Kaufman and R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 1990.

Nietzsche, Frederick. The Will to Power, translated by Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale, edited by Walter Kaufmann. Vintage, 1968.

Geronimo. Quoted in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, written by Dee Brown. Picador, 2007, ch. 17.

Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, edited by R. Kent Rasmussen. Penguin Classics, 2014, ch. 18.

Wilde, Oscar. "The Devoted Friend." Oscar Wilde: Complete Short Fiction, edited by Ian Small. Penguin Classics, 2003.

Twain, Mark. "A Tramp Abroad." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount, Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 36.

Dickinson, Emily. "Because I could not stop for Death." Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, edited by Cristanne Miller. Belknap Press, 2016, I. 1.

Marx, Karl. Fundamentals of a Critique of Political Economy, translated by Martin Nicolaus. Penguin Classics, 1993.