Liza of Lambeth (1897) narrates Liza's last four months alive.

In a Glass Darkly collects together five short stories from gothic horror and mystery writer Sheridan Le Fanu.

Charles Darwin is the English naturalist whose work laid the foundation for evolutionary biology and theory.

Published in 1901, M. P. Shiel's The Purple Cloud is an early last man science fiction novel.

The young orphan Pollyanna is sent to live with her stern Aunt in a dour New England town.

Walter Scott's novel Rob Roy follows a young Englishman, Frank Osbaldistone, to Scotland, where he travels to retrieve a debt.

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge opens with the story's hero, Peyton Farquhar, hanging bound from a bridge, awaiting hanging.

Agnes Grey is the daughter of a minister who faces financial ruin.

A Swedish family migrate to Nebraska at the turn of the 20th century.

The Secret Sharer contains many of Conrad's favorite motifs.

Pierre and Jean is a short realist novel by Guy de Maupassant.

The fifth book in the popular Barsoom series, The Chessmen of Mars is a 1922 science fiction novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Adam Bede follows the lives of a fictional rural community.

Thomas Hardy's final novel Jude the Obscure explores notions of class, religion, marriage and modernization through its protagonist Jude Fawley, a working-class man who dreams of being a scholar.

British writer John Buchan's Greenmantle is the second of five adventure novels to star Richard Hannay, a man with a remarkable knack for getting out of sticky situations, and indeed getting into them in the first place.

George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss, orginally published in 1860 as three volumes, tells of the lives of brother and sister Tom and Maggie Tulliver as they grow up upon the River Floss.

Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple became a huge seller in America from its first publication there in 1794, subsequently going through over two hundred editions.

The first novel by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton was published in 1848.

Born in Exile is an 1892 novel by George Robert Gissing, a prominent realist author of late-Victorian England who wrote twenty-three novels between 1880 and 1903.

Wallace Stevens' torrid words serve as both epigraph and incantation for Adrienne Weiss's powerful debut collection.