The Moon and Sixpence is a fictional novel heavily influenced by the life of French painter Paul Gauguin.

Liza of Lambeth (1897) narrates Liza's last four months alive.

Doctor Dolittle takes on an apprentice, Tommy Stubbins, as they set out to find Long Arrow, the world's greatest naturalist.

In a Glass Darkly collects together five short stories from gothic horror and mystery writer Sheridan Le Fanu.

Charles Darwin is the English naturalist whose work laid the foundation for evolutionary biology and theory.

Darwin consolidated a lifetime of work in On the Origin of Species, compiling his discoveries from the voyage of the Beagle, his experiments, research and correspondence.

Published in 1901, M. P. Shiel's The Purple Cloud is an early last man science fiction novel.

The young orphan Pollyanna is sent to live with her stern Aunt in a dour New England town.

Walter Scott's novel Rob Roy follows a young Englishman, Frank Osbaldistone, to Scotland, where he travels to retrieve a debt.

You, my love, will be poor, so as to be more like all other women. In order for us to live together I shall work all day and so be your servant.

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

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

My Antonia, first published 1918, is one of Willa Cather's greatest works.

A Swedish family migrate to Nebraska at the turn of the 20th century.

The Secret Sharer contains many of Conrad's favorite motifs.

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

Pierre and Jean is a short realist novel by Guy de Maupassant.

The fifth book in the popular Barsoom series, The Chessmen of Mars is a 1922 science fiction novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

On the eve of his coming of age, a young Lord begins to see the truth of his parents' lives.

Adam Bede follows the lives of a fictional rural community.