First published in 1909, A Thief in the Night is the first novel detailing the exploits and intrigues of gentleman thief A. J. Raffles in late Victorian England.

The Professor was the first novel Charlotte Bronte wrote, but was only published posthumously.

The Moon and Sixpence is a fictional novel heavily influenced by the life of French painter Paul Gauguin.

Doctor Dolittle takes on an apprentice, Tommy Stubbins, as they set out to find Long Arrow, the world's greatest naturalist.

Charles Darwin is the English naturalist whose work laid the foundation for evolutionary biology and theory.

Darwin consolidated a lifetime of work in On the Origin of Species, compiling his discoveries from the voyage of the Beagle, his experiments, research and correspondence.

The young orphan Pollyanna is sent to live with her stern Aunt in a dour New England town.

Walter Scott's novel Rob Roy follows a young Englishman, Frank Osbaldistone, to Scotland, where he travels to retrieve a debt.

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge opens with the story's hero, Peyton Farquhar, hanging bound from a bridge, awaiting hanging.

Agnes Grey is the daughter of a minister who faces financial ruin.

My Antonia, first published 1918, is one of Willa Cather's greatest works.

A Swedish family migrate to Nebraska at the turn of the 20th century.

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

A daughter inherits her father's miserliness, which stifles her relationship with her cousin, making love an unsatisfying experience.

The fifth book in the popular Barsoom series, The Chessmen of Mars is a 1922 science fiction novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

On the eve of his coming of age, a young Lord begins to see the truth of his parents' lives.

Adam Bede follows the lives of a fictional rural community.

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.

George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss, orginally published in 1860 as three volumes, tells of the lives of brother and sister Tom and Maggie Tulliver as they grow up upon the River Floss.

Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell.