These are the passionate and poignant letters from General George E. Pickett, C.S.A.

Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601.

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is a witty and insightful satirical novel.

Knut Hamsun's novel The Growth of the Soil won the Norwegian writer a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.

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.

Fearing rejection by her community, Helene Alving stayed with her philandering husband.

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, though written in 1884.

Fenella is officially a damsel, but she’s the despair of her parents.

Father Goriot is one of French novelist Honore de Balzac's most important pieces of writing.

Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is the love story between the good shepherd Gabriel Oak and the proud heiress Bathsheba Everdene.

Evelina is the daughter of an English aristocrat, but is brought up in the country.

A daughter inherits her father's miserliness, which stifles her relationship with her cousin, making love an unsatisfying experience.

Baroness Orczy's classic adventure novel El Dorado is the sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Before the dawn of history mankind was engaged in the study of dreaming.

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is the fourth book in Baum's Oz series.

Brimming with romance and adventure, Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote.

Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son tells the story of the wealthy owner of a shipping company.

David Copperfield is considered to be Charles Dickens's most autobiographical novel.

Daniel Deronda meets the beautiful, extravagant Gwendolen in Germany.

A beautiful American girl, Daisy Miller, is pursued by the sophisticated Winterbourne.