Initially banned in his home country The Kingdom of God Is Within You is Leo Tolstoy's great non-fiction.
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a novel portraying the corruption of the American meat industry in the early part of the twentieth century.
This is a guide-book to joy. It is for the use of the sad, the bored, the tired, anxious, disheartened and disappointed.
Another visionary novel from the great science fiction writer H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau tackles the thorny issues thrown up when humankind plays God and explores notions of society and identity, bringing the mythical chimera.
H.G. Wells' 1897 science fiction novella The Invisible Man tells the story of a scientist named Griffin who theory is this.
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789.
This first novel in Sax Rohmer's series, The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu combined together previously written short stories into a single story about the dealings of this criminal mastermind.
You, my love, will be poor, so as to be more like all other women. In order for us to live together I shall work all day and so be your servant.
The Importance of Being Earnest is the last play Oscar Wilde ever wrote, and remains his most enduringly popular.
The Imaginary Invalid is a three-part comedy about a miser who imagines illnesses for himself.
A Russian prince returns to Saint Petersburg after a long absence in Switzerland, where he was undergoing treatment for epilepsy.
We may believe in the doctrine of Progress or we may not, but in either case.
Sheridan Le Fanu's historical mystery novel The House by the Churchyard was written in 1863.
The Hound of the Baskervilles is a crime novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle starring the great detective of Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes. Wealthy landowner Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in the parkland surrounding his manor.
The Haunted Bookshop speaks of the ghosts that inhabit all places of books - the ghosts of all great literature.
Henry Drummond was a Scottish evangelical writer and lecturer.
Opening with the famous line This is the saddest story I have ever heard.
Sir James George Frazer's The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a broad comparative study.
The Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius is the only complete Latin novel to have survived to this day.
According to the great horror writer H.P. Lovecraft The Ghost Pirates . . . is a powerful account of a doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils.