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.

The Duchess of Malfi was published in 1623, but the date of writing may have been as early as 1611.

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a novel portraying the corruption of the American meat industry in the early part of the twentieth century.

Sylvie and Bruno is set in Victorian England and in Fairyland, each setting with their own narrative.

The Moonstone is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction, Wilkie Collins.

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

Howards End is a masterful discussion of changing social class-consciousness.

The Longest Journey (1907) follows the young Rickie Elliot's journey to maturity.

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

The orphan Kim, whose father was an Irish soldier, makes his living by begging on the streets of Lahore and running errands.

Chrétien de Troyes' Four Arthurian Romances continued and expanded on existing Arthurian legends, but began the Arthurian Romance genre, so popular in Medieval literature.

From the author: My aim, after summarizing the sociology of the Chinese as a prerequisite to the understanding of their ideas and sentiments, and dealing as fully as possible, consistently with limitations of space.

The Education of Henry Adams is the autobiography of the Bostonian Henry Adams.

In the South Seas is a collection of Robert Louis Stevenson's articles and essays on his travels in the Pacific.

Scottish writer Andrew Lang is best remember for his prolific collections of folk and fairy tales, but he was also an accomplished poet, literary critic, novelist and contributor in the field of anthropology.

The Critique of Practical Reason is the second of Kant's three Critiques, following Critique of Pure Reason.

Arnold Bennett's The Grand Babylon Hotel, from 1902, tells the story of a German prince mysteriously disappearing.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon is the compilation of 34 short stories and essays by Washington Irving.

The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a futuristic novel set in London in 1984. Chesterton envisions neither great technological leaps nor totalitarian suppression.

The Haunted Bookshop speaks of the ghosts that inhabit all places of books - the ghosts of all great literature.