The first novel by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton was published in 1848.

Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell.

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.

George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss, orginally published in 1860 as three volumes, tells of the lives of brother and sister Tom and Maggie Tulliver as they grow up upon the River Floss.

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.

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.

British writer John Buchan's Greenmantle is the second of five adventure novels to star Richard Hannay, a man with a remarkable knack for getting out of sticky situations, and indeed getting into them in the first place.

One of Henry James' greatest novels, The Ambassadors is a dark comedy from 1903.

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.

Adam Bede follows the lives of a fictional rural community.

On the eve of his coming of age, a young Lord begins to see the truth of his parents' lives.

The fifth book in the popular Barsoom series, The Chessmen of Mars is a 1922 science fiction novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Pierre and Jean is a short realist novel by Guy de Maupassant.

A daughter inherits her father's miserliness, which stifles her relationship with her cousin, making love an unsatisfying experience.

The Secret Sharer contains many of Conrad's favorite motifs.

A Swedish family migrate to Nebraska at the turn of the 20th century.

My Antonia, first published 1918, is one of Willa Cather's greatest works.

Agnes Grey is the daughter of a minister who faces financial ruin.

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge opens with the story's hero, Peyton Farquhar, hanging bound from a bridge, awaiting hanging.

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.