Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is a novella by American author Stephen Crane.

Father Goriot is one of French novelist Honore de Balzac's most important pieces of writing.

Honoré de Balzac's renowned Lost Illusions consists of two volumes.

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit is, according to Dickens, a novel about selfishness.

Rudyard Kipling's 1897 novel Captains Courageous follows the adventures and subsequent growth.

A country girl moves to the big city and lives her own version of the American Dream.

Daniel Deronda meets the beautiful, extravagant Gwendolen in Germany.

Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is exactly what it claims.

Erasmus of Rotterdam wrote the essay The Praise of Folly during a week.

The Trojan Women follows the women of Troy after the famous war which devastated their city.

In 1856 the Reverend Edmund Donald Carr was overtaken by a blizzard.

Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People in 1882.

Fearing rejection by her community, Helene Alving stayed with her philandering husband.

Plain Tales from the Hills contains 40 stories written by Rudyard Kipling.

Silas Marner is accused of stealing funds from his small Christian congregation.

Gustave Flaubert spent his life working on and revising the book he considered his greatest work,.

It is the natural right of every human being to be happy - to escape all the miseries of life.

The spiritual life depends on self-recollection and detachment from the rush of life.

It is a good thing to observe Christmas day. The mere marking of times and seasons.

Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler was first published in 1890.