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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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