18th Century

The 18th century lasted from January 1, 1701 to December 31, 1800 in the Gregorian calendar.
During the 18th century, the Enlightenment culminated in the French and American revolutions.

A Founding Mother: A Novel of Abigail Adams
The Armor of Light (Kingsbridge, #4)
A Girl Called Samson
The Last Witch of Scotland
The Art of a Lie
The Square of Sevens
The Bookseller of Inverness
The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
The Mourning Necklace
The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 (Revolution Trilogy, #2)
The Girl from Greenwich Street: A Novel of Hamilton, Burr, and America's First Murder Trial
The Women of Chateau Lafayette
The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding
The Traveler: One Man's Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris
A Novel Disguise (A Lady Librarian Mystery, #1)
Candide
Gulliver’s Travels
Robinson Crusoe
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Castle of Otranto
The Monk
Les Liaisons dangereuses
Evelina
Moll Flanders
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Pamela
Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Ann Radcliffe
“ As I walked over the loose fragments of stone, which lay scattered and surveyed the sublimity and grandeur of the ruins, I recurred, by a natural association of ideas, to the times when these walls stood proudly in their original splendor, when the halls were the scenes of hospitality and festive magnificence, and when they resounded with the voices of those whom death had long since swept from earth. "Thus," said I, "shall the present generation - he who now sink in misery - and he who now swim ...more ”
― Ann Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance

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