Why did a Union-loving, secession-opposing young college student volunteer.
Alice in Wonderland (also known as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), from 1865, is the peculiar and imaginative tale of a girl who falls down a rabbit-hole into a bizarre world of eccentric and unusual creatures.
Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol under financial duress, but it became one of his most popular and enduring stories.
Jules Verne's classic science fiction story Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is the fourth book in Baum's Oz series.
The Adventures of Pinocchio is a children's story about a wooden marionette who is wished to life.
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood retells the legends of the English outlaw Robin Hood, adapting the old ballads to be read by children.
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is an example of Conrad's later political writing.
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit is, according to Dickens, a novel about selfishness.
Abandoned by her husband after receiving a fatal medical diagnosis.
Of all the problems which the alert and curious mind of modern man is considering, none occupies him more than that of the relations of the sexes.
Although Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar is named after the legendary Roman political leader, the central character is thought by many to be Marcus Brutus, Caesar's friend turned foe who struggles throughout the play with conflicting obligations.
Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, from 1871, is a children's novel that is often put in the genre literary nonsense.
The experiences related in this volume fell to me in the summer of 1902.
The star of these stories is Father Brown, a character created by writer G. K. Chesterton.
Arnold Bennett's The Grand Babylon Hotel, from 1902, tells the story of a German prince mysteriously disappearing.
The Fairy Books, or Coloured Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour.
The House on the Borderland is a supernatural horror novel by William Hope Hodgson.
James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is the fictional account of the life of a young American man in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
The Sheik is a book by Edith Maude Hull, an English novelist of the early twentieth century.