The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents was H. G. Wells' first collection of short stories.
The Path of the Law is a short essay by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The comical Wheels of Chance was written in 1896 at the height of the golden age of the bicycle.
Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son tells the story of the wealthy owner of a shipping company.
Everybody dreams, but there are few who place any importance to the phenomena of sleep.
This is the story of Ab, a man of the Age of Stone, who lived so long ago.
A beautiful American girl, Daisy Miller, is pursued by the sophisticated Winterbourne.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1817 work Biographia Literaria is an autobiography in discourse.
Titus Livius, often known as Livy in English, was a Roman historian.
A mariner stops a man on his way to a wedding.
A nine year old boy's mother dies shortly after the death of his father.
First published in 1905, A Thief in the Night is the third collection of stories.
Shirley was the second published novel by Charlotte Bronte, after Jane Eyre.
Robert Louis Stevenson's 1878 travelogue, An Inland Voyage, details his canoeing trip.
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Silverado Squatters as the travel memoir of his honeymoon.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Poison Belt follows on from The Lost World.
Collected here are a number of short stories by the popular American writer.
It is the year 2072, sixty years on from the scarlet plague that decimated the earth's population.
Pollyanna Grows Up is the first sequel to Pollyanna, and the only one written by Porter herself.
Vathek is one of the earliest and most influential Gothic novels.