The social philosopher Richard B. Gregg is credited with coining the term voluntary simplicity.

It is the year 2072, sixty years on from the scarlet plague that decimated the earth's population.

Pollyanna Grows Up is the first sequel to Pollyanna, and the only one written by Porter herself.

Longfellow wrote his epic poem The Song of Hiawatha in 1855.

Vathek is one of the earliest and most influential Gothic novels.

Aphra Behn was one of the first professional English female writers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daniel Deronda meets the beautiful, extravagant Gwendolen in Germany.

Erasmus of Rotterdam wrote the essay The Praise of Folly during a week.