In Jack London's 1910 story Before Adam a young boy dreams that he is living the life of an early hominid, giving human evolution an early and entertaining portrayal.

Jack London's novel The Sea Wolf became an instant bestseller on its release in 1904.

Knut Hamsun's novel The Growth of the Soil won the Norwegian writer a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.

Christine is brought up by her itinerant musician father, whose death she mourns endlessly.

The House on the Borderland is a supernatural horror novel by William Hope Hodgson.

Dead Souls is a socially critical black comedy.

Thomas Hardy (1840 1928) was a naturalist and writer, whose fiction sits on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution and is filled with an imminent sense of nostalgia for the coming transformation of the British countryside.

Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is the love story between the good shepherd Gabriel Oak and the proud heiress Bathsheba Everdene.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a novel in three parts, written as a letter from Gilbert Markham to his brother-in-Law.

A Princess of Mars is the first in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series. This science fiction planetary romance, packed full of dangerous feats and swordplay, is set on a dying Mars.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz chronicles the adventure of Dorothea in the land of Oz.

The Sheik is a book by Edith Maude Hull, an English novelist of the early twentieth century.

Jules Verne's classic science fiction story Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

Miles Franklin wrote My Brilliant Career as a romance to entertain her friends.

The Marvelous Land of Oz is the second book in Baum's Oz series.

Ozma of Oz is the fourth book in Baum's Oz series.

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is the fourth book in Baum's Oz series.

The Adventures of Pinocchio is a children's story about a wooden marionette who is wished to life.

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood retells the legends of the English outlaw Robin Hood, adapting the old ballads to be read by children.

Anne of Green Gables is a best-selling novel and Canadian classic. It was originally intended for all audiences, but is now commonly considered a children's book.