Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is exactly what it claims.

Daniel Deronda meets the beautiful, extravagant Gwendolen in Germany.

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

Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) was an eccentric, reclusive poet, though born to a family.

The Monk: A Romance tells of the spectacular downfall of a Spanish monk. Ambroio lusts.

Rudyard Kipling's 1897 novel Captains Courageous follows the adventures and subsequent growth.

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

Considered the inventor of the essay itself, Michel de Montaigne published Essays.

Bel Ami was the second published novel by French writer Guy de Maupassant.

Life is a Dream is a play about free will and fate.