Stonehenge is the sacred site Lilly desires to visit more than any other place in the world.
An Outcast of the Islands is Joseph Conrad's second novel, first published in 1896 and inspired by Conrad's time as mate of the steamer The Vigar.
Conrad reputedly wrote Under Western Eyes (1911) in response to Crime and Punishment, which he detested.
The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a futuristic novel set in London in 1984. Chesterton envisions neither great technological leaps nor totalitarian suppression.
Arnold Bennett's The Grand Babylon Hotel, from 1902, tells the story of a German prince mysteriously disappearing.
In the South Seas is a collection of Robert Louis Stevenson's articles and essays on his travels in the Pacific.
The orphan Kim, whose father was an Irish soldier, makes his living by begging on the streets of Lahore and running errands.
The Moonstone is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction, Wilkie Collins.
Although considered by many to be Robert Louis Stevenson's greatest work of literature, Weir of Hermiston was left unfinished by its author's untimely death in 1894.
The star of these stories is Father Brown, a character created by writer G. K. Chesterton.
The star of these stories is Father Brown, a character created by writer G. K. Chesterton.
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, published in 1919, is one of Baroness Orczy's sequels to The Scarlet Pimpernel.
The experiences related in this volume fell to me in the summer of 1902.
The character Allan Quatermain is the hero of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines.
The Critique of Pure Reason is one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy, and the first of Kant's three Critiques.
The Scarlet Pimpernel is the original masked hero adventure story.
The Call of the Wild is Jack London's most popular book and is considered by many to be his best.
Jack London's White Fang is the story of a wolf-dog's journey from wildness into becoming civilized by humanity.
Arthur Conan Doyle's His Last Bow collects together eight Sherlock Holmes stories.
Alice in Wonderland (also known as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), from 1865, is the peculiar and imaginative tale of a girl who falls down a rabbit-hole into a bizarre world of eccentric and unusual creatures.