Books First Published in 1880s: Free EPUB Editions

The 1880s is where the Victorian novel starts to break apart: naturalism, the first detective series, the return of the historical romance, and short fiction becoming a market of its own.

These are the editions on editions.ink first published in that decade, ordered by year.

Books first published in the 1880s

Ordered by year of first publication. The list is generated from the book pages, so new releases land here automatically.

Year	Title	Words	Reading time
1880	Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome — E. M. Berens	109,063	~7 h
1880	The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky	348,612	~23 h
1883	Thus Spake Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsche	89,892	~6 h
1883	Treasure Island — Robert Louis Stevenson	67,000	~4 h
1884	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain	109,000	~7 h
1885	Bel-Ami — Guy de Maupassant	107,605	~7 h
1885	Germinal — Émile Zola	177,416	~12 h
1886	Beyond Good and Evil — Friedrich Nietzsche	62,067	~4 h
1886	Kidnapped — Robert Louis Stevenson	85,398	~6 h
1886	Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde — Robert Louis Stevenson	25,500	~2 h
1886	The Mayor of Casterbridge — Thomas Hardy	138,000	~9 h
1887	A Study in Scarlet — Arthur Conan Doyle	43,367	~3 h
1888	The Happy Prince and Other Tales — Oscar Wilde	16,085	~1 h
1889	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court — Mark Twain	121,033	~8 h

Questions readers ask

How many books on editions.ink are from the 1880s?

14 titles, about 1,500,038 words, roughly 100 hours of reading.

What should I read first from this decade?

The Happy Prince and Other Tales is the shortest, at about 1.1 hours.

How are the dates chosen?

By first publication of the work in book form; the book pages give the exact edition and source used.

Can I read these on a Kindle or Kobo?

Yes: EPUB for most readers, AZW3 for older Kindles and KEPUB for Kobo devices, all direct downloads.

Part of the complete catalogue, with the word count and reading time table and the author index.