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Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 475 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.76 — 315,690 ratings — published 1759
Gulliver’s Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 382 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.59 — 306,566 ratings — published 1726
Robinson Crusoe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 357 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.68 — 340,931 ratings — published 1719
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Paperback)
by (shelved 282 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.70 — 165,709 ratings — published 1774
The Castle of Otranto (Paperback)
by (shelved 279 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.20 — 46,896 ratings — published 1764
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 237 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.88 — 37,541 ratings — published 1796
Les Liaisons dangereuses (Paperback)
by (shelved 230 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 4.05 — 61,514 ratings — published 1782
Evelina (Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.71 — 19,496 ratings — published 1778
Moll Flanders (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.51 — 49,623 ratings — published 1722
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.72 — 23,512 ratings — published 1767
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
by (shelved 202 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,192,599 ratings — published 1991
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.75 — 34,763 ratings — published 1749
The Mysteries of Udolpho (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.44 — 18,145 ratings — published 1794
Pamela (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 2.75 — 14,132 ratings — published 1740
Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 4.09 — 53,810 ratings — published 1794
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.92 — 28,067 ratings — published 1792
Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.40 — 8,671 ratings — published 1748
The Vicar of Wakefield (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.46 — 10,970 ratings — published 1766
Voyager (Outlander, #3)
by (shelved 108 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 4.39 — 339,678 ratings — published 1993
A Modest Proposal (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,469 ratings — published 1729
Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
by (shelved 105 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 4.34 — 396,901 ratings — published 1992
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.97 — 64,257 ratings — published 1798
The Social Contract (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.78 — 60,775 ratings — published 1762
Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.26 — 13,679 ratings — published 1748
The Nun (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.76 — 9,478 ratings — published 1796
Vathek (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.22 — 7,805 ratings — published 1786
The Rape of the Lock (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.54 — 17,764 ratings — published 1717
The Frozen River (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 4.36 — 726,176 ratings — published 2023
Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
by (shelved 87 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 4.36 — 276,428 ratings — published 1996
A Journal of the Plague Year (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.55 — 12,305 ratings — published 1722
Roxana (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.41 — 5,920 ratings — published 1724
The Italian (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.53 — 6,493 ratings — published 1796
Cecilia (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,050 ratings — published 1782
Manon Lescaut (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.29 — 18,257 ratings — published 1731
Lyrical Ballads (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.95 — 13,501 ratings — published 1798
The Female Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.51 — 3,359 ratings — published 1752
Jacques the Fatalist (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.79 — 10,153 ratings — published 1796
The Fiery Cross (Outlander, #5)
by (shelved 74 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 4.26 — 232,856 ratings — published 2001
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 4.04 — 593,478 ratings — published 1985
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.78 — 20,483 ratings — published 1998
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,039,252 ratings — published 1859
Caleb Williams (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.46 — 4,961 ratings — published 1794
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.74 — 15,330 ratings — published 1789
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.46 — 7,022 ratings — published 1759
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,052,094 ratings — published 1813
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.85 — 94,771 ratings — published 1791
A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander, #6)
by (shelved 65 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 4.44 — 196,803 ratings — published 2005
Fever 1793 (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.93 — 136,395 ratings — published 2000
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.95 — 109,634 ratings — published 2011
Camilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as 18th-century)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,994 ratings — published 1796
“...the idea that Smith can somehow be seen as representative of modern capitalism is a stretch. He was a man of his time, in the very particular society of oligarchic, 18th century Scotland. It was a world in which he thrived precisely by not fighting the status quo, but rather by making a proposal for harnessing greed, while keeping merchants in their social place and celebrating the ruling class of the time, and trying to envision a way in which it could play a part in a modernizing economy. In many ways, he got it right. While capitalism flourished in 18th century Scotland, the landed elite remained firmly in place and has managed to do so to this very day. In that aspect, Smith was quite visionary.”
― Adam Smith: The Kirkcaldy Papers
― Adam Smith: The Kirkcaldy Papers
“History is philosophy teaching by examples.”
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