Beyond Lies the Wub was the first story ever published by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick.

Stephen Glennard is in desperate need of money; his career is in ruins and he wants to marry his beautiful fiancee.

This Side of Paradise is a novel about post-World War I youth and their morality.

Life at Pontesordo was in truth not very pleasant for an ardent and sensitive little boy of nine.

The Romany Rye is a fictional, yet highly autobiographical novel by George Borrow, which follows his novel Lavengro.

Parnassus on Wheels is a novel by Christopher Morley, published in 1917.

Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh follows four generations of the Pontifex family.

James Allen's All These Things Added was first published in 1903 and contains both Entering the Kingdom and The Heavenly Life, which were both later published as separate books.

If the reading of this little book encourages any on their pilgrim way; if it arouses them to greater diligence.

This is a guide-book to joy. It is for the use of the sad, the bored, the tired, anxious, disheartened and disappointed.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Dead Souls is a socially critical black comedy.

Thomas Hardy (1840 1928) was a naturalist and writer, whose fiction sits on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution and is filled with an imminent sense of nostalgia for the coming transformation of the British countryside.

A Princess of Mars is the first in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series. This science fiction planetary romance, packed full of dangerous feats and swordplay, is set on a dying Mars.

Miles Franklin wrote My Brilliant Career as a romance to entertain her friends.