First published in 1901, The Black Mask is the second collection of stories.

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

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

The most popular novel by Gothic mystery and thriller writer Sheridan Le Fanu.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Poison Belt follows on from The Lost World.

From the text: This Simple Sabotage Field Manual Strategic Services (Provisional) is published.

It is the year 2072, sixty years on from the scarlet plague that decimated the earth's population.

Longfellow wrote his epic poem The Song of Hiawatha in 1855.

Vathek is one of the earliest and most influential Gothic novels.

Songs of Innocence and of Experience compiles two contrasting but directly related books.

Sonnets from the Portuguese is the collection of love poems written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

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

The Shadow Line is a novella by Joseph Conrad. A young man becomes captain of a ship in the Orient

The Last of the Mohicans is the second book in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy.

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is a novella by American author Stephen Crane.

Honoré de Balzac's renowned Lost Illusions consists of two volumes.

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit is, according to Dickens, a novel about selfishness.

A country girl moves to the big city and lives her own version of the American Dream.

Daniel Deronda meets the beautiful, extravagant Gwendolen in Germany.

Erasmus of Rotterdam wrote the essay The Praise of Folly during a week.