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.

Evelina is the daughter of an English aristocrat, but is brought up in the country.

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage was the poem which brought Lord Byron public recognition.

The Shadow Line is a novella by Joseph Conrad. A young man becomes captain of a ship in the Orient

The Deerslayer is the last book in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy.

The Last of the Mohicans is the second book in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy.

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is a novella by American author Stephen Crane.

Father Goriot is one of French novelist Honore de Balzac's most important pieces of writing.