Frederick Douglass was an ex-slave and a great orator in early 19th-century USA.

Uncle Vanya is one of Anton Checkov's four major plays.

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

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is a witty and insightful satirical novel.

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

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

Zane Grey, renowned as an author for his portrayals of the rugged Wild West.

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is an example of Conrad's later political writing.

Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to Little Men is commonly considered to be the last novel.

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

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

The Lady and the Pirate is a romance adventure novel from the well-known American author.

The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale is one of Stevenson's darker, more political novels.

The nonsensical poem The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in Eight Fits) was written by Lewis Carroll.

Nostromo is a classic anti-hero, who lives in a fictitious mining village on the coast.

Areopagitica: A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England.

A young Dutch trader, Kaspar Almayer, marries Captain Lingard's adopted Malay daughter.

The Little White Bird is a series of short episodes, narratives.

Typee is a fictional, but heavily autobiographical book by Herman Melville.

Omoo: A Narrative of the South Seas is the sequel to Melville's Typee.