H. G. Wells' comic 1910 novel, The History of Mr. Polly, stars Alfred Polly, a timid man who is more successful at daydreaming than working in the local draper's shops.
One of H. G. Wells' first ventures outside of the science fiction realm, the novel Love and Mr. Lewisham was published in the year 1900.
Catherine, a seventeen year old girl, travels with her family to Bath and makes many new acquaintance, including two young men who pursue her.
The Turn of the Screw is s ghostly Gothic tale by Henry James.
Lady Susan is the only full novel written by Jane Austen that was not published in her lifetime.
The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908.
In Jack London's 1910 story Before Adam a young boy dreams that he is living the life of an early hominid, giving human evolution an early and entertaining portrayal.
Jack London's novel The Sea Wolf became an instant bestseller on its release in 1904.
Knut Hamsun's novel The Growth of the Soil won the Norwegian writer a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.
Christine is brought up by her itinerant musician father, whose death she mourns endlessly.
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is the love story between the good shepherd Gabriel Oak and the proud heiress Bathsheba Everdene.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a novel in three parts, written as a letter from Gilbert Markham to his brother-in-Law.
In the third book in L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series, Anne of the Island, our protagonist leaves her teaching work in Avonlea in order to study for her B.A. at Redmond College.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz chronicles the adventure of Dorothea in the land of Oz.
The Marvelous Land of Oz is the second book in Baum's Oz series.
Ozma of Oz is the fourth book in Baum's Oz series.
Anne of Avonlea continues the story of Anne Shirley (heroine of Anne of Green Gables).
Sara Crewe's young but doting father sends her to a London boarding school when she is seven.
The Professor was the first novel Charlotte Bronte wrote, but was only published posthumously.
The Moon and Sixpence is a fictional novel heavily influenced by the life of French painter Paul Gauguin.