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

A well-known children's song features a family reunion and lots of anticipated fun.

Of all the problems which the alert and curious mind of modern man is considering, none occupies him more than that of the relations of the sexes.

It is the natural right of every human being to be happy - to escape all the miseries of life.

Vira’s crystal ball only shows bleak and harsh truth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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