Retells the Old Testament story in which Sheba visits Solomon to test his wisdom.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the immensely powerful autobiography of Harriet Jacobs.

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

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

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

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

The Swiss Family Robinson tells the story of a Swiss family who are shipwrecked in the East Indies.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a harrowing critique of social class and the powerlessness of women.

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.

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.

The Path of the Law is a short essay by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son tells the story of the wealthy owner of a shipping company.

This is the story of Ab, a man of the Age of Stone, who lived so long ago.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1817 work Biographia Literaria is an autobiography in discourse.

A mariner stops a man on his way to a wedding.

First published in 1905, A Thief in the Night is the third collection of stories.