A Princess of Mars is the first in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series. This science fiction planetary romance, packed full of dangerous feats and swordplay, is set on a dying Mars.
Liza of Lambeth (1897) narrates Liza's last four months alive.
According to the great horror writer H.P. Lovecraft The Ghost Pirates . . . is a powerful account of a doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils.
Published in 1901, M. P. Shiel's The Purple Cloud is an early last man science fiction novel.
You, my love, will be poor, so as to be more like all other women. In order for us to live together I shall work all day and so be your servant.
Pierre and Jean is a short realist novel by Guy de Maupassant.
Thomas Hardy's final novel Jude the Obscure explores notions of class, religion, marriage and modernization through its protagonist Jude Fawley, a working-class man who dreams of being a scholar.
One of Henry James' greatest novels, The Ambassadors is a dark comedy from 1903.
This first novel in Sax Rohmer's series, The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu combined together previously written short stories into a single story about the dealings of this criminal mastermind.
Trilby (1894) is a gothic horror novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the Fin de siècle period after Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple became a huge seller in America from its first publication there in 1794, subsequently going through over two hundred editions.
The first novel by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton was published in 1848.
Born in Exile is an 1892 novel by George Robert Gissing, a prominent realist author of late-Victorian England who wrote twenty-three novels between 1880 and 1903.
William Dean Howells' 1885 novel, The Rise of Silas Lapham tells the story of its protagonist's materialistic aspirations; his rise from rags to riches.
U. G. Krishnamurti's conversations with the constant stream of people who?
In a world in which spiritual techniques, teachers, concepts, and organizations are legion.
The Politics of Aristotle is the second part of a treatise of which the Ethics is the first part.
No Name is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction, Wilkie Collins.
Following the Equator is an account by Mark Twain of his travels through the British Empire in 1895.
Unto This Last is an essay on economy by John Ruskin.