The Beggar's Opera is the only ballad opera that is still popularly performed today.
A young Dutch trader, Kaspar Almayer, marries Captain Lingard's adopted Malay daughter.
A Personal Record is writer Joseph Conrad's autobiography.
Hailed as one of American literature's most influential works.
Areopagitica: A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England.
Nostromo is a classic anti-hero, who lives in a fictitious mining village on the coast.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a harrowing critique of social class and the powerlessness of women.
The nonsensical poem The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in Eight Fits) was written by Lewis Carroll.
The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale is one of Stevenson's darker, more political novels.
The Swiss Family Robinson tells the story of a Swiss family who are shipwrecked in the East Indies.
The Lady and the Pirate is a romance adventure novel from the well-known American author.
Baroness Orczy's classic adventure novel El Dorado is the sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel.
Written by Benjamin Franklin in 1758, The Way to Wealth collects together Franklin's adages.
Ever since 1759, when Voltaire wrote Candide in ridicule of the notion.
Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to Little Men is commonly considered to be the last novel.
Little Men is the sequel to Louisa May Alcott's classic, Little Women.
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is an example of Conrad's later political writing.
Zane Grey, renowned as an author for his portrayals of the rugged Wild West.
Wieland, named by his father after a German nickname for the devil.
Brimming with romance and adventure, Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote.