Fearing rejection by her community, Helene Alving stayed with her philandering husband.

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, though written in 1884.

Fenella is officially a damsel, but she’s the despair of her parents.

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

Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is the love story between the good shepherd Gabriel Oak and the proud heiress Bathsheba Everdene.

Evelina is the daughter of an English aristocrat, but is brought up in the country.

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

Baroness Orczy's classic adventure novel El Dorado is the sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel.

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

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is the fourth book in Baum's Oz series.

Brimming with romance and adventure, Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote.

Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son tells the story of the wealthy owner of a shipping company.

David Copperfield is considered to be Charles Dickens's most autobiographical novel.

Daniel Deronda meets the beautiful, extravagant Gwendolen in Germany.

A beautiful American girl, Daisy Miller, is pursued by the sophisticated Winterbourne.

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

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

Rudyard Kipling's 1897 novel Captains Courageous follows the adventures and subsequent growth.

Captain Angus, the Lighthouse Ghost is about 2 children holidaying at the Cape Otway Lighthouse.

Ever since 1759, when Voltaire wrote Candide in ridicule of the notion.