The Wonderful Wizard of Oz chronicles the adventure of Dorothea in the land of Oz.

Miles Franklin wrote My Brilliant Career as a romance to entertain her friends.

The Marvelous Land of Oz is the second book in Baum's Oz series.

Ozma of Oz is the fourth book in Baum's Oz series.

Anne of Avonlea continues the story of Anne Shirley (heroine of Anne of Green Gables).

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

The Professor was the first novel Charlotte Bronte wrote, but was only published posthumously.

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.

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

According to the great horror writer H.P. Lovecraft The Ghost Pirates . . . is a powerful account of a doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils.

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

Lady Audley's Secret was one of the first and most successful sensation novels of the late 19th century. A young gentleman of leisure, Robert Audley, is spurred into action when his friend Geroge Talboys goes missing from Audley Court.

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.

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.