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.

Pierre and Jean is a short realist novel by Guy de Maupassant.

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.

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.

One of Henry James' greatest novels, The Ambassadors is a dark comedy from 1903.

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.

This first novel in Sax Rohmer's series, The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu combined together previously written short stories into a single story about the dealings of this criminal mastermind.

Trilby (1894) is a gothic horror novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the Fin de siècle period after Bram Stoker's Dracula.

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

The first novel by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton was published in 1848.

Born in Exile is an 1892 novel by George Robert Gissing, a prominent realist author of late-Victorian England who wrote twenty-three novels between 1880 and 1903.

William Dean Howells' 1885 novel, The Rise of Silas Lapham tells the story of its protagonist's materialistic aspirations; his rise from rags to riches.

Wallace Stevens' torrid words serve as both epigraph and incantation for Adrienne Weiss's powerful debut collection.

Abundantly Simple is a brilliantly funny response to the enormously popular and saccharine-sweet bestseller Simple Abundance.

Paul Menzies is an outofshape, middleaged advertising executive.

Both chronicle and confrontation, the poems of Jacob Scheiers debut work out.

From the moment we learn to speak we are always using other peoples words.