Using colonial tax and census records, scholars think the indigenous population dropped at least 90%.

Booney Dugan is fresh out of jail and looking to start over.

J M Barrie's most famous character, Peter Pan, originated in a whimsical story from his book The Little White Bird.

The World's Desire (1890) is a fantasy novel about the hero Odysseus.

The Fairy Books, or Coloured Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour.

The Fairy Books, or Coloured Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour.

The Fairy Books, or Coloured Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour.

The Fairy Books, or Coloured Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour.

The Fairy Books, or Coloured Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour.

The Fairy Books, or Coloured Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour.

James Allen's All These Things Added was first published in 1903 and contains both Entering the Kingdom and The Heavenly Life, which were both later published as separate books.

In the dystopian vision of H. G. Wells' novel The Sleeper Awakes (1910), a man awakes to a London where all he knew has radically changed after his sleep of two hundred and three years.

H. G. Wells' A Modern Utopia is a fusion of fiction and philosophy.

The World Set Free is H. G. Wells' prophetic 1914 novel, telling of world war and the advent of nuclear weapons.

H. G. Wells' prophetic The War in the Air foretold the use of airplanes in warfare and the coming of World War I.

This is a guide-book to joy. It is for the use of the sad, the bored, the tired, anxious, disheartened and disappointed.

Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, wrote the apocalyptic novel The Last Man in 1826.

H. G. Wells, in his 1906 In the Days of the Comet uses the vapors of a comet to trigger a deep and lasting change in humanity's perspective on themselves and the world.

Charlotte Bronte's Villette is the gothic tale of Lucy Snowe, who travels to the fictional town of Villette in Belgium to teach at a girl's school.

H. G. Wells' comic 1910 novel, The History of Mr. Polly, stars Alfred Polly, a timid man who is more successful at daydreaming than working in the local draper's shops.