Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's second novel starring the great detective Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of the Four weaves together a complex plot involving stolen treasure, a secret pact between guards and prisoners, and the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

A Study in Scarlet is the first of the Sherlock Holmes stories.

When Robert Browning first met the ailing Elizabeth Barrett in 1845 it must have seemed to him like something from a gothic novel.

The Soul of Man under Socialism is an 1891 essay by Oscar Wilde.

The Best American Humorous Short Stories features tales from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain and many other well known writers.

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

Major Barbara is a 1905 play by George Bernard Shaw.

The Count of Monte Cristo is Alexandre Dumas' classic tale of revenge and adventure.

William Morris was an English writer, architect, and artist and was integral to the birth of socialism in Great Britain.

The Son of Tarzan is Edgar Rice Burroughs' fourth novel in the Tarzan series.

Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, from 1871, is a children's novel that is often put in the genre literary nonsense.

There never was anybody, wrote the Spectator, who had adventures as well as Miss Bird.

The Return of Tarzan is Edgar Rice Burroughs' third novel in the series starring the man raised by apes. First serialized in 1914 in All-Story Cavalier magazine, it was published as a novel in 1916.

The Land That Time Forgot is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel that starts out as a nerve-wracking wartime naval adventure but develops into the story of a unique and mysterious prehistoric lost world.

Notes from the Underground is Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1864 masterpiece following the ranting, slightly unhinged memoir of an isolated, anonymous civil servant.

Leaves of Grass is a collection of poems by Walt Whitman originally published in 1855 at the poet's own expense.

The following book consists of brief biographical commentaries about Beethoven, each followed by sections of quotations attributed to the muse.

Arms and the Man was George Bernard Shaw's first commercially successful play.

Oscar Wilde's play An Ideal Husband is a comedy about politics, blackmail and corruption.

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.