Christine is brought up by her itinerant musician father, whose death she mourns endlessly.

Knut Hamsun's novel The Growth of the Soil won the Norwegian writer a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.

Jack London's novel The Sea Wolf became an instant bestseller on its release in 1904.

In Jack London's 1910 story Before Adam a young boy dreams that he is living the life of an early hominid, giving human evolution an early and entertaining portrayal.

Death consists in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing.

Creative Unity is a collection of essays from Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore, who in 1913 became Asia's first recipient of the Nobel Prize.

Student! Your life is your own. You have only yourself to thank for what you are, have been and will be.

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

First published in 1886, The Bostonians is one of James' wittiest social satires.

Washington Square by Henry James is the story of the gentle, dull Catherine Sloper who falls for the ambivalent Morris Townsend, who her father believes is a fortune hunter.

Lady Susan is the only full novel written by Jane Austen that was not published in her lifetime.

The Turn of the Screw is s ghostly Gothic tale by Henry James.

The niece of James Fenimore Cooper and a good friend and correspondent of Henry James, Constance Fenimore Woolson was a well known short story writer in the later part of the 19th century.

Catherine, a seventeen year old girl, travels with her family to Bath and makes many new acquaintance, including two young men who pursue her.

It was in the year 1869 that impressed with the degree in which, even during the last twenty years, when the world seemed wholly occupied with other matters.

One of H. G. Wells' first ventures outside of the science fiction realm, the novel Love and Mr. Lewisham was published in the year 1900.

H. G. Wells' comic 1910 novel, The History of Mr. Polly, stars Alfred Polly, a timid man who is more successful at daydreaming than working in the local draper's shops.

Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol under financial duress, but it became one of his most popular and enduring stories.

Charlotte Bronte's Villette is the gothic tale of Lucy Snowe, who travels to the fictional town of Villette in Belgium to teach at a girl's school.

H. G. Wells, in his 1906 In the Days of the Comet uses the vapors of a comet to trigger a deep and lasting change in humanity's perspective on themselves and the world.