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.

Hailed as one of American literature's most influential works.

A Personal Record is writer Joseph Conrad's autobiography.

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

The Beggar's Opera is the only ballad opera that is still popularly performed today.

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

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

The Three Musketeers follows the young d'Artagnan in his quest to become a musketeer.

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.

Twenty Years After is the second of the d'Artagnan Romances, following The Three Musketeers.

The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later is the final book in Dumas' d'Artagnon Romances trilogy.

The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later is the final book in Dumas' d'Artagnon Romances trilogy.

The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later is the final book in Dumas' d'Artagnon Romances trilogy.

The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later is the final book in Dumas' d'Artagnon Romances trilogy.

The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons is a short pamphlet by Henry Steel Olcott.

H. G. Wells' Ann Veronica, first published in 1909, looks at political and feminist issues.

Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire's novel Zadig, or The Book of Fate skillfully weaves the story.

Beautiful, honest Nell Trent lives with her devoted Grandfather in his Old Curiosity Shop.