A remarkable writer and intellectual in her own right, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley first encountered the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley when she was only a teenager. After fathering three of her children, Shelley drowned during a storm.

A nine year old boy's mother dies shortly after the death of his father.

Oliver Twist is born an orphan and grows up handed from bad position to worse.

Omoo: A Narrative of the South Seas is the sequel to Melville's Typee.

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

Scottish writer J M Barrie wrote both a play and a novel about the boy Peter Pan.

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

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

Why did a Union-loving, secession-opposing young college student volunteer.

A mariner stops a man on his way to a wedding.

Titus Livius, often known as Livy in English, was a Roman historian.

Vira’s crystal ball only shows bleak and harsh truth.

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

A well-known children's song features a family reunion and lots of anticipated fun.

Shirley was the second published novel by Charlotte Bronte, after Jane Eyre.

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

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

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

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.