Written by Benjamin Franklin in 1758, The Way to Wealth collects together Franklin's adages.

Baroness Orczy's classic adventure novel El Dorado is the sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel.

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

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.

Nostromo is a classic anti-hero, who lives in a fictitious mining village on the coast.

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 Personal Record is writer Joseph Conrad's autobiography.

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.

Scottish writer J M Barrie wrote both a play and a novel about the boy Peter Pan.

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.

Typee is a fictional, but heavily autobiographical book by Herman Melville.

Omoo: A Narrative of the South Seas is the sequel to Melville's Typee.

Twenty Years After is the second of the d'Artagnan Romances, following The Three Musketeers.

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