Nostromo is a classic anti-hero, who lives in a fictitious mining village on the coast.

Areopagitica: A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England.

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

The Beggar's Opera is the only ballad opera that is still popularly performed today.

The Little White Bird is a series of short episodes, narratives.

The Three Musketeers follows the young d'Artagnan in his quest to become a musketeer.

Omoo: A Narrative of the South Seas is the sequel to Melville's Typee.

H. G. Wells' Ann Veronica, first published in 1909, looks at political and feminist issues.

Beautiful, honest Nell Trent lives with her devoted Grandfather in his Old Curiosity Shop.

The New Atlantis is Sir Francis Bacon's creation of an ideal land.

The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents was H. G. Wells' first collection of short stories.

Dubbed The Wickedest Man In the World, Aleister Crowley is best known for his occult writings.

The comical Wheels of Chance was written in 1896 at the height of the golden age of the bicycle.

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

Everybody dreams, but there are few who place any importance to the phenomena of sleep.

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1817 work Biographia Literaria is an autobiography in discourse.

A young man, Olenin, is stationed in the Caucasus, where he falls in love with the place.

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Silverado Squatters as the travel memoir of his honeymoon.

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