An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge opens with the story's hero, Peyton Farquhar, hanging bound from a bridge, awaiting hanging.

Robert Louis Stevenson's 1878 travelogue, An Inland Voyage, details his canoeing trip.

Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People in 1882.

A young Dutch trader, Kaspar Almayer, marries Captain Lingard's adopted Malay daughter.

Although originally classified as one of Shakespeare's comedies, All's Well That Ends Well is now more commonly classified as one of his ambiguous problem plays, so called because they defy neat classification as either comedy or tragedy.

The character Allan Quatermain is the hero of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines.

"Alizay, pirate girl" is an artful blend of story, game and cartoon

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.

Agnes Grey is the daughter of a minister who faces financial ruin.

Stonehenge is the sacred site Lilly desires to visit more than any other place in the world.

Adam Bede follows the lives of a fictional rural community.

First published in 1905, A Thief in the Night is the third collection of stories.

A Study in Scarlet is the first of the Sherlock Holmes stories.

A Personal Record is writer Joseph Conrad's autobiography.

In 1856 the Reverend Edmund Donald Carr was overtaken by a blizzard.

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

Midsummer Night's Dream is Shakespeare's classic tale of two couples who can't quite pair up to everyone's satisfaction.

Sara Crewe's young but doting father sends her to a London boarding school when she is seven.

This fascinating travelogue details the visit of author Ellen Clacy to the massive gold mines that were erected in Australia in the nineteenth century.

It's been said if two or more people strongly agree on any one thing.