The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon is the compilation of 34 short stories and essays by Washington Irving.

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.

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

The Fairy Books, or Coloured Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour.

The Fairy Books, or Coloured Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour.

The Fairy Books, or Coloured Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour.

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.

The World Set Free is H. G. Wells' prophetic 1914 novel, telling of world war and the advent of nuclear weapons.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is the fourth book in Baum's Oz series.

Anne of Green Gables is a best-selling novel and Canadian classic. It was originally intended for all audiences, but is now commonly considered a children's book.

First published in 1899, The Amateur Cracksman was the first collection of stories detailing the exploits and intrigues of gentleman thief A. J. Raffles in late Victorian England.