Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is exactly what it claims.

Daniel Deronda meets the beautiful, extravagant Gwendolen in Germany.

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

Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) was an eccentric, reclusive poet, though born to a family.

The Monk: A Romance tells of the spectacular downfall of a Spanish monk. Ambroio lusts.

Rudyard Kipling's 1897 novel Captains Courageous follows the adventures and subsequent growth.

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

Considered the inventor of the essay itself, Michel de Montaigne published Essays.

Bel Ami was the second published novel by French writer Guy de Maupassant.

Life is a Dream is a play about free will and fate.

Honoré de Balzac's renowned Lost Illusions consists of two volumes.

Father Goriot is one of French novelist Honore de Balzac's most important pieces of writing.

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is a novella by American author Stephen Crane.

Pierre Corneille's tragicomedy Le Cid is based on the legend of the same name.

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

The Deerslayer is the last book in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy.

The Shadow Line is a novella by Joseph Conrad. A young man becomes captain of a ship in the Orient

In his satiric poem Don Juan, Lord Byron refigures the legend as a man easily seduced by women.

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage was the poem which brought Lord Byron public recognition.

Evelina is the daughter of an English aristocrat, but is brought up in the country.