Titus Livius, often known as Livy in English, was a Roman historian.

The Princess and the Goblin is an enduring children's fantasy novel by George MacDonald.

A mariner stops a man on his way to a wedding.

A nine year old boy's mother dies shortly after the death of his father.

First published in 1901, The Black Mask is the second collection of stories.

First published in 1905, A Thief in the Night is the third collection of stories.

Shirley was the second published novel by Charlotte Bronte, after Jane Eyre.

A young man, Olenin, is stationed in the Caucasus, where he falls in love with the place.

Robert Louis Stevenson's 1878 travelogue, An Inland Voyage, details his canoeing trip.

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Silverado Squatters as the travel memoir of his honeymoon.

The most popular novel by Gothic mystery and thriller writer Sheridan Le Fanu.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Poison Belt follows on from The Lost World.

Collected here are a number of short stories by the popular American writer.

From the text: This Simple Sabotage Field Manual Strategic Services (Provisional) is published.

It is the year 2072, sixty years on from the scarlet plague that decimated the earth's population.

Pollyanna Grows Up is the first sequel to Pollyanna, and the only one written by Porter herself.

Longfellow wrote his epic poem The Song of Hiawatha in 1855.

Vathek is one of the earliest and most influential Gothic novels.

Aphra Behn was one of the first professional English female writers.

Songs of Innocence and of Experience compiles two contrasting but directly related books.