G. K. Chesterton said of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson that he seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins.

Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) follows two women to Italy: the widowed Lilia Herriton and her traveling companion Caroline Abbott.

The Romany Rye is a fictional, yet highly autobiographical novel by George Borrow, which follows his novel Lavengro.

Agnes Among the Gargoyles commences at the dedication of an office tower constructed atop Grand Central Station.

Heroes of the Santa Fe Trail is the product of decades of primary research by a writer.

Imagination is man's most fearsome weapon.

When is a story about a basketball player not even about basketball?

In this far-seeing novel, the nations of the near future come to 1984?

Who killed Kennedy? Many keen minds have their doubts about the findings of the Warren Commission.

Dagny Taggart Jamison is a private investigator born on the day.

With this novel, the author of Inquest and Executive Action has managed fiction-created-from-fact.

In the dystopian vision of H. G. Wells' novel The Sleeper Awakes (1910), a man awakes to a London where all he knew has radically changed after his sleep of two hundred and three years.

Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, wrote the apocalyptic novel The Last Man in 1826.

H. G. Wells' comic 1910 novel, The History of Mr. Polly, stars Alfred Polly, a timid man who is more successful at daydreaming than working in the local draper's shops.

The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908.

Death consists in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing.

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is the fictional account of the life of a young American man in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

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

The Secret Sharer contains many of Conrad's favorite motifs.

Thomas Hardy's final novel Jude the Obscure explores notions of class, religion, marriage and modernization through its protagonist Jude Fawley, a working-class man who dreams of being a scholar.