The power of eloquence to move and persuade men is universally recognized.

The Imaginary Invalid is a three-part comedy about a miser who imagines illnesses for himself.

The String of Pearls is the first installment of the Sweeney Todd penny part serial.

The Cloud upon the Sanctuary is a work of Christian mysticism written in 1909.

The Female Quixote completely inverts the adventures of Don Quixote.

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

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

A founding member of the Theosophical Society, and perhaps the first well-known European.

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

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom details the escape of Ellen and William Craft.

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

Described by H. P. Lovecraft as being one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination.

The Boats of the Glen Carrig is horror writer William Hope Hodgson's 1907 novel.

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

The social philosopher Richard B. Gregg is credited with coining the term voluntary simplicity.

It is the year 2072, sixty years on from the scarlet plague that decimated the earth's population.

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

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

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

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