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.

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.

The Call of the Wild is Jack London's most popular book and is considered by many to be his best.

The Scarlet Pimpernel is the original masked hero adventure story.

The Critique of Pure Reason is one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy, and the first of Kant's three Critiques.

The character Allan Quatermain is the hero of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines.

The experiences related in this volume fell to me in the summer of 1902.

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, published in 1919, is one of Baroness Orczy's sequels to The Scarlet Pimpernel.

The star of these stories is Father Brown, a character created by writer G. K. Chesterton.

The star of these stories is Father Brown, a character created by writer G. K. Chesterton.

Although considered by many to be Robert Louis Stevenson's greatest work of literature, Weir of Hermiston was left unfinished by its author's untimely death in 1894.

The Moonstone is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction, Wilkie Collins.