Frederick Douglass was an ex-slave and a great orator in early 19th-century USA.

Uncle Vanya is one of Anton Checkov's four major plays.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the immensely powerful autobiography of Harriet Jacobs.

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, though written in 1884.

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is a witty and insightful satirical novel.

Oliver Twist is born an orphan and grows up handed from bad position to worse.

David Copperfield is considered to be Charles Dickens's most autobiographical novel.

Brimming with romance and adventure, Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote.

Wieland, named by his father after a German nickname for the devil.

Zane Grey, renowned as an author for his portrayals of the rugged Wild West.

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is an example of Conrad's later political writing.

Little Men is the sequel to Louisa May Alcott's classic, Little Women.

Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to Little Men is commonly considered to be the last novel.

Ever since 1759, when Voltaire wrote Candide in ridicule of the notion.

Written by Benjamin Franklin in 1758, The Way to Wealth collects together Franklin's adages.

Baroness Orczy's classic adventure novel El Dorado is the sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel.

The Lady and the Pirate is a romance adventure novel from the well-known American author.

The Swiss Family Robinson tells the story of a Swiss family who are shipwrecked in the East Indies.

The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale is one of Stevenson's darker, more political novels.

The nonsensical poem The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in Eight Fits) was written by Lewis Carroll.