Described by H. P. Lovecraft as being one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination.

Collected here are a number of short stories by the popular American writer.

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

The social philosopher Richard B. Gregg is credited with coining the term voluntary simplicity.

From the text: This Simple Sabotage Field Manual Strategic Services (Provisional) is published.

We may believe in the doctrine of Progress or we may not, but in either case.

Pollyanna Grows Up is the first sequel to Pollyanna, and the only one written by Porter herself.

Longfellow wrote his epic poem The Song of Hiawatha in 1855.

Winesburg, Ohio is a series of loosely linked short stories set in the fictional town.

Vathek is one of the earliest and most influential Gothic novels.

Aphra Behn was one of the first professional English female writers.

Songs of Innocence and of Experience compiles two contrasting but directly related books.

Sonnets from the Portuguese is the collection of love poems written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Though Frances Burney's novels significantly influenced writers such as Jane Austen.

Evelina is the daughter of an English aristocrat, but is brought up in the country.

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

The Shadow Line is a novella by Joseph Conrad. A young man becomes captain of a ship in the Orient

The Last of the Mohicans is the second book in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy.

Pierre Corneille's tragicomedy Le Cid is based on the legend of the same name.

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