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.
Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell.
A Personal Record is writer Joseph Conrad's autobiography.
Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire's novel Zadig, or The Book of Fate skillfully weaves the story.