A country girl moves to the big city and lives her own version of the American Dream.
Rudyard Kipling's 1897 novel Captains Courageous follows the adventures and subsequent growth.
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit is, according to Dickens, a novel about selfishness.
Honoré de Balzac's renowned Lost Illusions consists of two volumes.
Father Goriot is one of French novelist Honore de Balzac's most important pieces of writing.
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is a novella by American author Stephen Crane.
The Last of the Mohicans is the second book in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy.
The Deerslayer is the last book in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy.
The Shadow Line is a novella by Joseph Conrad. A young man becomes captain of a ship in the Orient
Evelina is the daughter of an English aristocrat, but is brought up in the country.
Though Frances Burney's novels significantly influenced writers such as Jane Austen.
Sonnets from the Portuguese is the collection of love poems written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience compiles two contrasting but directly related books.
Aphra Behn was one of the first professional English female writers.
Vathek is one of the earliest and most influential Gothic novels.
Longfellow wrote his epic poem The Song of Hiawatha in 1855.
Pollyanna Grows Up is the first sequel to Pollyanna, and the only one written by Porter herself.
It is the year 2072, sixty years on from the scarlet plague that decimated the earth's population.
From the text: This Simple Sabotage Field Manual Strategic Services (Provisional) is published.
Collected here are a number of short stories by the popular American writer.