When Emily Inglethorp is poisoned the police are certain they've found the killer, but Hercule Po...

A first-person narrative of Olaudah Equiano's journey from his native Africa to the New World, th...

Latimer is cursed with psychic abilities that allow him to see the future, yet he's unable to avo...

The Poems of Catullusdescribes the lifestyle of the Latin poet Catullus, his friends, and his lov...

When tragedy strikes on his son's wedding day, Lord Manfred believes it is a foreboding omen, and...

In creating one of the first and most successful examples of the inspirational self-help book, Ja...

The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) is a collection of poems and plays by W.B. Yeats. Containing many...

'Revolutionary...Brontë's most feminist novel.'-Lyndall Gordon'Charlotte Brontë has us by the han...

Phileas Fogg puts up half his fortune wagering that he can circumnavigate the earth in 80 days.En...

An Anglo-American Alliance: A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the Future (1906) is a novel by...

The House by the Church-Yard (1863) is a novel by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. An important source fo...

Officer Harry Feversham leaves his military position right before an important battle to the disa...

The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903) is a semi-autobiographical work by George Gissing. Pu...

Wormwood (1890) is a novel by Marie Corelli. Published at the beginning of Corelli's career as on...

Mathilda (1959) is a posthumous novella by English writer and Romantic Mary Shelley. Written as a...

Edward Waverly enjoyed a privileged upbringing, despite his family's drama. Coming of age during ...

Women in Love is D.H Lawrence's sequel to The Rainbow, and is widely considered by critics to beL...

All's Well That Ends Well (1607) is a comedy by William Shakespeare. All's Well That Ends Well wa...

'Take the box and get away from here as soon as you can. Don't let it out of your sight until it ...

'My novel hasn't got a subject. Yes, I know it sounds stupid...let's say, if you prefer it, it ha...

Dashiell Hammett's 1930 detective novel is a cornerstone of American crime fiction, introducing t...

Dashiell Hammett's 1930 detective novel is a cornerstone of American crime fiction, introducing t...

In this autobiographical memoir, Sergeant examines the gendered societal positions of the era, no...

In this autobiographical memoir, Sergeant examines the gendered societal positions of the era, no...

'Doyle's modesty of language conceals a profound tolerance of the human complexity'-John Le Carré...

After the death of his parents, Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents in Nebraska, whe...

First appearing in 1845 The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, with its painfully vivid...

The Golden Boys Rescued by the Radio (1923) is an adventure novel by L.P. Wyman and one of seven ...

A prosperous New Orleans family, led by Honoré Grandissime, is faced with a moral and financial d...

Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852) is a novel by American writer Herman Melville. Published the y...

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon is a unique addition to Jules Verne's beloved adventure serie...

A sharp-witted detective investigates the mystery of a gem, plundered from India and now vanished...

Action, romance, fantastic creatures and a bit of satire distinguish this groundbreaking novel of...

Ivanov (1889) is a drama in four acts by Russian writer Anton Chekhov. Written in ten days, the p...

Barry Craven is an adventurous but troubled Englishman who, after suffering a tragic loss, sudden...

Uncovering a governmental conspiracy to frame a friend for murder puts David Balfour on the run a...

Imagine a plague so horrific, only forty percent of the population lived to tell the tale. Writte...

'The first poetess of romantic fiction.'-Sir Walter Scott''Mrs. Radcliffe is a mistress of hints,...

'London's style is typically lush but his viewpoint is skeptical and dystopian...the story remind...

Soon after meeting near the famed city of love, Paris,Heloiseand Abelard fall into a deep and pas...

Featuring nineteen sweet and humorous works of short fiction, P.G Wodehouse's The Man Upstairs an...

After the tragic death of his son, Allan Quatermain's grief is inconsolable. Feeling that the onl...

Sowing and Reaping (1876) is a novel by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. One of the first novels pub...

Set in both England and colonial India, The Woman in the Bazaarfollows Captain George Coventry as...

The House Behind the Cedars (1900) is African-American writer Charles Chesnutt's debut novel. Ins...

Erewhon, an anagram for 'nowhere,' is a faraway land where citizens follow a unique set of rules ...

Adolf Verloc is working as a spy in London, when he's recruited to commit a terrorist act that co...

The Man-Made World (1911) is a sociological study by American author and feminist Charlotte Perki...