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

A remarkable writer and intellectual in her own right, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley first encountered the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley when she was only a teenager. After fathering three of her children, Shelley drowned during a storm.

A Swedish family migrate to Nebraska at the turn of the 20th century.

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

Oliver Twist is born an orphan and grows up handed from bad position to worse.

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

Darwin consolidated a lifetime of work in On the Origin of Species, compiling his discoveries from the voyage of the Beagle, his experiments, research and correspondence.

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

Ozma of Oz is the fourth book in Baum's Oz series.

“Peepo and the Unfinished Story” is an artful blend of stories, games and cartoons.

J M Barrie's most famous character, Peter Pan, originated in a whimsical story from his book The Little White Bird.

Scottish writer J M Barrie wrote both a play and a novel about the boy Peter Pan.

Plain Tales from the Hills contains 40 stories written by Rudyard Kipling.

The young orphan Pollyanna is sent to live with her stern Aunt in a dour New England town.

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

Why did a Union-loving, secession-opposing young college student volunteer.

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

Walter Scott's novel Rob Roy follows a young Englishman, Frank Osbaldistone, to Scotland, where he travels to retrieve a debt.

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

Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's early tragedies.