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

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

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

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.

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

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

The most popular novel by Gothic mystery and thriller writer Sheridan Le Fanu.

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Silverado Squatters as the travel memoir of his honeymoon.

Robert Louis Stevenson's 1878 travelogue, An Inland Voyage, details his canoeing trip.

A young man, Olenin, is stationed in the Caucasus, where he falls in love with the place.

Shirley was the second published novel by Charlotte Bronte, after Jane Eyre.

First published in 1905, A Thief in the Night is the third collection of stories.

First published in 1901, The Black Mask is the second collection of stories.

A nine year old boy's mother dies shortly after the death of his father.

A mariner stops a man on his way to a wedding.

The Princess and the Goblin is an enduring children's fantasy novel by George MacDonald.

Titus Livius, often known as Livy in English, was a Roman historian.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1817 work Biographia Literaria is an autobiography in discourse.

Black Beauty (1877) is the classic children's book by English author Anna Sewell.