Frederick Douglass was an ex-slave and a great orator in early 19th-century USA.

The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a futuristic novel set in London in 1984. Chesterton envisions neither great technological leaps nor totalitarian suppression.

After asking the sun, a cloud, the wind, and a wall to marry her, a mouse finds just the right husband.

The Moonstone is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction, Wilkie Collins.

The Moon and Sixpence is a fictional novel heavily influenced by the life of French painter Paul Gauguin.

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.

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

The Merchant of Venice is classed as one of Shakespeare's comedies, but is more often remembered for its dramatic characters and situations.

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

The Marvelous Land of Oz is the second book in Baum's Oz series.

The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later is the final book in Dumas' d'Artagnon Romances trilogy.

"The Little Witch at School" is an artful blend of stories, games and cartoons.

The Little White Bird is a series of short episodes, narratives.

The Fairy Books, or Coloured Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour.

The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons is a short pamphlet by Henry Steel Olcott.

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, published in 1919, is one of Baroness Orczy's sequels to The Scarlet Pimpernel.

The Last of the Mohicans is the second book in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy.

Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, wrote the apocalyptic novel The Last Man in 1826.

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

The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908.