William Wells Brown's Clotel or, The President's Daughter is often considered the first novel.

The Ancient Greek Euripides wrote the play Hippolytus, a tragedy based on the myth.

British writer Edith Maude Hull was best known for her classic romantic novel.

Supported by a family inheritance that gave her £500 a year, Mary Henrietta Kingsley traveled.

The Imaginary Invalid is a three-part comedy about a miser who imagines illnesses for himself.

The Cloud upon the Sanctuary is a work of Christian mysticism written in 1909.

The Female Quixote completely inverts the adventures of Don Quixote.

Maugham wrote The Magician after meeting the famous magician and occultist Aleister Crowly in Paris.

Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes recounts Robert Louis Stevenson's 120 mile.

Sheridan Le Fanu's historical mystery novel The House by the Churchyard was written in 1863.

Sacred Books of the East includes selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta.

Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, from 1651, is one of the first and most influential arguments.

The horror novel The Lair of the White Worm, also titled The Garden of Evil.

The Boats of the Glen Carrig is horror writer William Hope Hodgson's 1907 novel.

The Second Deluge is a science fiction novel by Garrett P. Serviss.

Henri Barbusse's Under Fire: The Story of a Squad (in the original French Le Feu.

Filipino national hero Jose Rizal wrote The Social Cancer in Berlin in 1887.

Browning's dramatic poem The Ring and the Book narrates the trial of a Roman for the death.

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage was the poem which brought Lord Byron public recognition.

In his satiric poem Don Juan, Lord Byron refigures the legend as a man easily seduced by women.