Although considered by many to be Robert Louis Stevenson's greatest work of literature, Weir of Hermiston was left unfinished by its author's untimely death in 1894.
The Moonstone is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction, Wilkie Collins.
The orphan Kim, whose father was an Irish soldier, makes his living by begging on the streets of Lahore and running errands.
In the South Seas is a collection of Robert Louis Stevenson's articles and essays on his travels in the Pacific.
Arnold Bennett's The Grand Babylon Hotel, from 1902, tells the story of a German prince mysteriously disappearing.
The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a futuristic novel set in London in 1984. Chesterton envisions neither great technological leaps nor totalitarian suppression.
Conrad reputedly wrote Under Western Eyes (1911) in response to Crime and Punishment, which he detested.
An Outcast of the Islands is Joseph Conrad's second novel, first published in 1896 and inspired by Conrad's time as mate of the steamer The Vigar.
Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women in two parts, each resoundingly popular and receiving critical acclaim.
The World's Desire (1890) is a fantasy novel about the hero Odysseus.
In the dystopian vision of H. G. Wells' novel The Sleeper Awakes (1910), a man awakes to a London where all he knew has radically changed after his sleep of two hundred and three years.
H. G. Wells' A Modern Utopia is a fusion of fiction and philosophy.
The World Set Free is H. G. Wells' prophetic 1914 novel, telling of world war and the advent of nuclear weapons.
Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, wrote the apocalyptic novel The Last Man in 1826.
H. G. Wells, in his 1906 In the Days of the Comet uses the vapors of a comet to trigger a deep and lasting change in humanity's perspective on themselves and the world.
Catherine, a seventeen year old girl, travels with her family to Bath and makes many new acquaintance, including two young men who pursue her.
The Turn of the Screw is s ghostly Gothic tale by Henry James.
Lady Susan is the only full novel written by Jane Austen that was not published in her lifetime.
The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908.
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.