The New Atlantis is Sir Francis Bacon's creation of an ideal land.

The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents was H. G. Wells' first collection of short stories.

Dubbed The Wickedest Man In the World, Aleister Crowley is best known for his occult writings.

The comical Wheels of Chance was written in 1896 at the height of the golden age of the bicycle.

Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son tells the story of the wealthy owner of a shipping company.

Everybody dreams, but there are few who place any importance to the phenomena of sleep.

Before the dawn of history mankind was engaged in the study of dreaming.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1817 work Biographia Literaria is an autobiography in discourse.

A young man, Olenin, is stationed in the Caucasus, where he falls in love with the place.

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Silverado Squatters as the travel memoir of his honeymoon.

The most popular novel by Gothic mystery and thriller writer Sheridan Le Fanu.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Poison Belt follows on from The Lost World.

Collected here are a number of short stories by the popular American writer.

It is the year 2072, sixty years on from the scarlet plague that decimated the earth's population.

Pollyanna Grows Up is the first sequel to Pollyanna, and the only one written by Porter herself.

Longfellow wrote his epic poem The Song of Hiawatha in 1855.

Vathek is one of the earliest and most influential Gothic novels.

Aphra Behn was one of the first professional English female writers.

Evelina is the daughter of an English aristocrat, but is brought up in the country.

The Shadow Line is a novella by Joseph Conrad. A young man becomes captain of a ship in the Orient