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

David Copperfield is considered to be Charles Dickens's most autobiographical novel.

Brimming with romance and adventure, Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote.

Wieland, named by his father after a German nickname for the devil.

Zane Grey, renowned as an author for his portrayals of the rugged Wild West.

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

Little Men is the sequel to Louisa May Alcott's classic, Little Women.

Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to Little Men is commonly considered to be the last novel.

Ever since 1759, when Voltaire wrote Candide in ridicule of the notion.

Written by Benjamin Franklin in 1758, The Way to Wealth collects together Franklin's adages.

Baroness Orczy's classic adventure novel El Dorado is the sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel.

The Lady and the Pirate is a romance adventure novel from the well-known American author.

The Swiss Family Robinson tells the story of a Swiss family who are shipwrecked in the East Indies.

The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale is one of Stevenson's darker, more political novels.

The nonsensical poem The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in Eight Fits) was written by Lewis Carroll.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a harrowing critique of social class and the powerlessness of women.

Nostromo is a classic anti-hero, who lives in a fictitious mining village on the coast.

Areopagitica: A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England.

Hailed as one of American literature's most influential works.

A Personal Record is writer Joseph Conrad's autobiography.