Aphra Behn was one of the first professional English female writers.

Vathek is one of the earliest and most influential Gothic novels.

Henri Barbusse's Under Fire: The Story of a Squad (in the original French Le Feu.

Winesburg, Ohio is a series of loosely linked short stories set in the fictional town.

Longfellow wrote his epic poem The Song of Hiawatha in 1855.

A GREAT BOOK is a living organism. Months, years, or centuries may go into its gestation.

Pollyanna Grows Up is the first sequel to Pollyanna, and the only one written by Porter herself.

We may believe in the doctrine of Progress or we may not, but in either case.

It is the year 2072, sixty years on from the scarlet plague that decimated the earth's population.

From the text: This Simple Sabotage Field Manual Strategic Services (Provisional) is published.

The social philosopher Richard B. Gregg is credited with coining the term voluntary simplicity.

Darkness and Dawn is a science fiction trilogy by George Allan England.

The Second Deluge is a science fiction novel by Garrett P. Serviss.

Collected here are a number of short stories by the popular American writer.

The Boats of the Glen Carrig is horror writer William Hope Hodgson's 1907 novel.

Described by H. P. Lovecraft as being one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination.

This book is written with the object of laying before the public a cookery book.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Poison Belt follows on from The Lost World.

The horror novel The Lair of the White Worm, also titled The Garden of Evil.

Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, from 1651, is one of the first and most influential arguments.