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.

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.

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

British writer John Buchan's Greenmantle is the second of five adventure novels to star Richard Hannay, a man with a remarkable knack for getting out of sticky situations, and indeed getting into them in the first place.

Vira’s crystal ball only shows bleak and harsh truth.

Ever since she stumbled into her father’s lab and drank a cocktail of his experiments.

The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later is the final book in Dumas' d'Artagnon Romances trilogy.

Dubbed The Wickedest Man In the World, Aleister Crowley is best known for his occult writings.

Before the dawn of history mankind was engaged in the study of dreaming.

This is the story of Ab, a man of the Age of Stone, who lived so long ago.

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

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

The Shadow Line is a novella by Joseph Conrad. A young man becomes captain of a ship in the Orient

Father Goriot is one of French novelist Honore de Balzac's most important pieces of writing.

A religion of just being kind would be a pretty good religion, don't you think so?

Tom Sawyer Abroad sees Tom, Huck Finn and Jim board a futuristic hot air balloon bound for Africa, in a parody of the popular science fiction/travel adventure stories of the time.

A Russian prince returns to Saint Petersburg after a long absence in Switzerland, where he was undergoing treatment for epilepsy.

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