Another case of mistaken identity from the king of the plot twist, Twelfth Night tells the tale of the beautiful young Viola who is separated from her twin brother, Sebastian, when their ship is lost at sea.

King Lear is considered one of Shakespeare's greatest plays. King Lear decides to step down and divide his kingdom between his three daughters.

Midsummer Night's Dream is Shakespeare's classic tale of two couples who can't quite pair up to everyone's satisfaction.

The Tempest is thought by many to be Shakespeare's greatest and most perfect play.

The Taming of the Shrew is perhaps one of Shakespeare's most controversial plays by modern standards.

Although Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar is named after the legendary Roman political leader, the central character is thought by many to be Marcus Brutus, Caesar's friend turned foe who struggles throughout the play with conflicting obligations.

Although originally classified as one of Shakespeare's comedies, All's Well That Ends Well is now more commonly classified as one of his ambiguous problem plays, so called because they defy neat classification as either comedy or tragedy.

As You Like It is truly one of Shakespeare's greatest romantic comedies.

Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s, and first published in 1598.

This fascinating travelogue details the visit of author Ellen Clacy to the massive gold mines that were erected in Australia in the nineteenth century.

A remarkable writer and intellectual in her own right, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley first encountered the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley when she was only a teenager. After fathering three of her children, Shelley drowned during a storm.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Alice in Wonderland (also known as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), from 1865, is the peculiar and imaginative tale of a girl who falls down a rabbit-hole into a bizarre world of eccentric and unusual creatures.

Arthur Conan Doyle's His Last Bow collects together eight Sherlock Holmes stories.

Jack London's White Fang is the story of a wolf-dog's journey from wildness into becoming civilized by humanity.