Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, wrote the apocalyptic novel The Last Man in 1826.

In the dystopian vision of H. G. Wells' novel The Sleeper Awakes (1910), a man awakes to a London where all he knew has radically changed after his sleep of two hundred and three years.

With this novel, the author of Inquest and Executive Action has managed fiction-created-from-fact.

Dagny Taggart Jamison is a private investigator born on the day.

Who killed Kennedy? Many keen minds have their doubts about the findings of the Warren Commission.

In this far-seeing novel, the nations of the near future come to 1984?

When is a story about a basketball player not even about basketball?

Imagination is man's most fearsome weapon.

Heroes of the Santa Fe Trail is the product of decades of primary research by a writer.

Agnes Among the Gargoyles commences at the dedication of an office tower constructed atop Grand Central Station.

It's the future and large areas are nothing but wasteland.

The Romany Rye is a fictional, yet highly autobiographical novel by George Borrow, which follows his novel Lavengro.

Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) follows two women to Italy: the widowed Lilia Herriton and her traveling companion Caroline Abbott.

A Room with a View is a romance and a social critique of Edwardian society.

G. K. Chesterton said of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson that he seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins.

British writer John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps is the first of five adventure novels to star Richard Hannay, a man with a remarkable knack for getting out of sticky situations, and indeed getting into them in the first place.

G.K. Chesterton lends his witty, astute and sardonic prose to the much loved figure of Saint Francis of Assis.

The Republic is Plato's most famous work and one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy and politics.

A Russian prince returns to Saint Petersburg after a long absence in Switzerland, where he was undergoing treatment for epilepsy.

AS a man chooses his coat for its wearing qualities or for the moment's passing whim, so does he choose his destiny.