How are we to live the larger life? Partly through uninspired struggle.

Life at Pontesordo was in truth not very pleasant for an ardent and sensitive little boy of nine.

The Valley of Fear is the last Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in book form in 1915.

The Vampyre is a short story written by John William Polidori and first published in 1819.

Voyage of the Beagle chronicles Charles Darwin's five years as a naturalist on board the H.M.S. Beagle.

Causing mass hysteria as listeners of its 1938 radio broadcast believed a Martian invasion of Earth really was taking place, H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is perhaps the most famous novel of its genre.

Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh follows four generations of the Pontifex family.

The Way We Live Now is a satirical novel by Anthony Trollope.

The collaborative efforts of twelve different authors writing a chapter each.

The Woman in White is credited with being the first of the sensation novels, and one of the finest examples of the genre.

The Bible is one of the two or three oldest books in the world, but unlike most of the ancient books.

From the text: I have now been in India for over two years and a half after my return.

This Side of Paradise is a novel about post-World War I youth and their morality.

Miranda Blair, a writer about mysterious death cases, is investigating the death of a child.

Thus Spake Zarathustra is an important philosophical text by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

Tom Sawyer Abroad sees Tom, Huck Finn and Jim board a futuristic hot air balloon bound for Africa, in a parody of the popular science fiction/travel adventure stories of the time.

Tom Sawyer, Detective follows Twain's popular novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Tom Sawyer Abroad.

Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers is the seventh book in the original Tom Swift series.

Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters is the 24th book in the original Tom Swift series.

Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship is the 18th book in the original Tom Swift series.