Nations yet to come will look back upon his history as to some grand and supernatural romance.

A beautiful young man, Dorian Gray, sits for a portrait. In the garden of the artist's house he falls into conversation with Lord Wotton.

The Importance of Being Earnest is the last play Oscar Wilde ever wrote, and remains his most enduringly popular.

Jane Eyre is raised in her aunt's house after the death of her parents.

Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience.

Arms and the Man was George Bernard Shaw's first commercially successful play.

Oscar Wilde's play An Ideal Husband is a comedy about politics, blackmail and corruption.

The following book consists of brief biographical commentaries about Beethoven, each followed by sections of quotations attributed to the muse.

Leaves of Grass is a collection of poems by Walt Whitman originally published in 1855 at the poet's own expense.

The Land That Time Forgot is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel that starts out as a nerve-wracking wartime naval adventure but develops into the story of a unique and mysterious prehistoric lost world.

Notes from the Underground is Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1864 masterpiece following the ranting, slightly unhinged memoir of an isolated, anonymous civil servant.

There never was anybody, wrote the Spectator, who had adventures as well as Miss Bird.

The Son of Tarzan is Edgar Rice Burroughs' fourth novel in the Tarzan series.

William Morris was an English writer, architect, and artist and was integral to the birth of socialism in Great Britain.

Major Barbara is a 1905 play by George Bernard Shaw.

The Count of Monte Cristo is Alexandre Dumas' classic tale of revenge and adventure.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes collects together eleven stories detailing the famous exploits and adventures of Baker Street's greatest detective.

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.

The Valley of Fear is the last Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in book form in 1915.