The Shadow Line is a novella by Joseph Conrad. A young man becomes captain of a ship in the Orient

In his satiric poem Don Juan, Lord Byron refigures the legend as a man easily seduced by women.

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage was the poem which brought Lord Byron public recognition.

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

Though Frances Burney's novels significantly influenced writers such as Jane Austen.

Browning's dramatic poem The Ring and the Book narrates the trial of a Roman for the death.

Sonnets from the Portuguese is the collection of love poems written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Songs of Innocence and of Experience compiles two contrasting but directly related books.

Filipino national hero Jose Rizal wrote The Social Cancer in Berlin in 1887.

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.