First published in 1905, A Thief in the Night is the third collection of stories.
Shirley was the second published novel by Charlotte Bronte, after Jane Eyre.
Robert Louis Stevenson's 1878 travelogue, An Inland Voyage, details his canoeing trip.
From the text: This Simple Sabotage Field Manual Strategic Services (Provisional) is published.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience compiles two contrasting but directly related books.
Sonnets from the Portuguese is the collection of love poems written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
A country girl moves to the big city and lives her own version of the American Dream.
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is exactly what it claims.
Plain Tales from the Hills contains 40 stories written by Rudyard Kipling.
It is the natural right of every human being to be happy - to escape all the miseries of life.
The spiritual life depends on self-recollection and detachment from the rush of life.
Stonehenge is the sacred site Lilly desires to visit more than any other place in the world.
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.
Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol under financial duress, but it became one of his most popular and enduring stories.
Jules Verne's classic science fiction story Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is the fourth book in Baum's Oz series.
The Adventures of Pinocchio is a children's story about a wooden marionette who is wished to life.
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood retells the legends of the English outlaw Robin Hood, adapting the old ballads to be read by children.
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is an example of Conrad's later political writing.
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit is, according to Dickens, a novel about selfishness.