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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Mariano Azuela, the first of the novelists of the Revolution, was born in Lagos de Moreno.

De vita Caesarum, known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies.

The power of eloquence to move and persuade men is universally recognized.

Stephen Glennard is in desperate need of money; his career is in ruins and he wants to marry his beautiful fiancee.

H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, from 1895, popularized the idea of a vehicle that allows its user to travel intentionally and selectively across time, and indeed Wells is credited with coining the very term time machine.

British writer John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps is the first of five adventure novels to star Richard Hannay, a man with a remarkable knack for getting out of sticky situations, and indeed getting into them in the first place.