William Dean Howells' 1885 novel, The Rise of Silas Lapham tells the story of its protagonist's materialistic aspirations; his rise from rags to riches.

Browning's dramatic poem The Ring and the Book narrates the trial of a Roman for the death.

The Republic is Plato's most famous work and one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy and politics.

Published in 1901, M. P. Shiel's The Purple Cloud is an early last man science fiction novel.

THE human being who thrills to the experience of beauty in nature and in art does not forever rest.

The soul-consuming and friction-wearing tendency of this hurrying, grasping, competing age is the excuse for this book.

The Portrait of a Lady is perhaps Henry James' greatest novel.

The Politics of Aristotle is the second part of a treatise of which the Ethics is the first part.

First published in 1920, The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants.

Since its publication in 1678, The Pilgrim's Progress has never been out of print.

A beautiful young man, Dorian Gray, sits for a portrait. In the garden of the artist's house he falls into conversation with Lord Wotton.

The Pickwick Papers was Dickens' first published novel and the first ever publishing phenomenon with illegal copies, theatrical performances and merchandise.

Regarded as one of Arnold Bennett's finest works, The Old Wives' Tale was first published in 1908.

The niece of James Fenimore Cooper and a good friend and correspondent of Henry James, Constance Fenimore Woolson was a well known short story writer in the later part of the 19th century.

Described by H. P. Lovecraft as being one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination.

In a world in which spiritual techniques, teachers, concepts, and organizations are legion.

The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) is the archetypal Gothic novel.

The Monk: A Romance tells of the spectacular downfall of a Spanish monk. Ambroio lusts.

THE MIND OF JESUS! What a study is this! To attain a dim reflection of it.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes collects together eleven stories detailing the famous exploits and adventures of Baker Street's greatest detective.