Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the immensely powerful autobiography of Harriet Jacobs.
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is a witty and insightful satirical novel.
Oliver Twist is born an orphan and grows up handed from bad position to worse.
Brimming with romance and adventure, Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote.
Wieland, named by his father after a German nickname for the devil.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 young Dutch trader, Kaspar Almayer, marries Captain Lingard's adopted Malay daughter.
The Beggar's Opera is the only ballad opera that is still popularly performed today.
The Little White Bird is a series of short episodes, narratives.
The Three Musketeers follows the young d'Artagnan in his quest to become a musketeer.
Omoo: A Narrative of the South Seas is the sequel to Melville's Typee.