The Romanticism Reading Path

According to Groblé

Goethe, Austen, Mary Shelley, Hugo, Pushkin - the early 19th century's turn toward emotion, imagination, and the self, alongside the comedies of manners and historical romances that set the novel loose across Europe.

16 works · 6,743 pages, in reading order

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  1. 1Faust, First PartJohann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808Grueling · 236 pages
  2. 2Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen · 1813Easy · 435 pages
  3. 3EmmaJane Austen · 1815Easy · 512 pages
  4. 4PersuasionJane Austen · 1817Easy · 250 pages
  5. 5FrankensteinMary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 1818Breezy · 273 pages
  6. 6The Red and the BlackStendhal · 1830Easy · 560 pages
  7. 7The Hunchback of Notre-DameVictor Hugo · 1831Easy · 493 pages
  8. 8Faust, Part TwoJohann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1832Grueling · 400 pages
  9. 9Eugene OneginAlexander Pushkin · 1833Moderate · 240 pages
  10. 10The Charterhouse of ParmaStendhal · 1839Easy · 532 pages
  11. 11Dead SoulsNikolai Gogol · 1842Moderate · 464 pages
  12. 12The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas · 1844Breezy · 1276 pages
  13. 13The Three MusketeersAlexandre Dumas · 1844Breezy · 736 pages
  14. 14Self-Reliance and NatureRalph Waldo Emerson · 1844Moderate · 117 pages
  15. 15Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass · 1845Breezy · 176 pages
  16. 16The Communist ManifestoKarl Marx · 1848Breezy · 43 pages