The novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe, focuses on a slave named Uncle Tom to weave a portrayal of the cruelty of slavery, finding redemption in the idea that Christian love can conquer something so destructive.

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a novel portraying the corruption of the American meat industry in the early part of the twentieth century.

If the reading of this little book encourages any on their pilgrim way; if it arouses them to greater diligence.

Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol under financial duress, but it became one of his most popular and enduring stories.

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.

Jules Verne's classic science fiction story Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is the fourth book in Baum's Oz series.

The Adventures of Pinocchio is a children's story about a wooden marionette who is wished to life.

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood retells the legends of the English outlaw Robin Hood, adapting the old ballads to be read by children.

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Identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes in North America - it is an epidemic.

A once rare disease, autism is now a worldwide epidemic affecting half a million American children.

In the face of the vastness, the magic, the unknown quality of life.

This book is full of helpful tips from the author's decades of gardening experience.

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

Charles Eastman, whose Sioux name was Ohiyesa (pronounced Oh hee' yay suh).

The Vampyre is a short story written by John William Polidori and first published in 1819.

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

First published in 1920, The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants.

Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fenelon, more commonly known as Francois.