Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, though written in 1884.

Oliver Twist is born an orphan and grows up handed from bad position to worse.

David Copperfield is considered to be Charles Dickens's most autobiographical novel.

Wieland, named by his father after a German nickname for the devil.

Zane Grey, renowned as an author for his portrayals of the rugged Wild West.

Little Men is the sequel to Louisa May Alcott's classic, Little Women.

Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to Little Men is commonly considered to be the last novel.

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 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.

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.

Hailed as one of American literature's most influential works.

The Beggar's Opera is the only ballad opera that is still popularly performed today.

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.

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

H. G. Wells' Ann Veronica, first published in 1909, looks at political and feminist issues.

The New Atlantis is Sir Francis Bacon's creation of an ideal land.