The Seagull is the first of Anton Checkov's four full-length plays.

Jack London's novel The Sea Wolf became an instant bestseller on its release in 1904.

The School for Scandal debuted at Drury Lane Theater in London in 1777.

The School for Husbands (L'École des maris) is a work by Molière (the stage name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), a French playwright who is often considered to be one of Western literature's great masters of comedy.

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

The Scarlet Pimpernel is the original masked hero adventure story.

A simple, everyday tale of classroom life with an open-ended conclusion.

The Saga of Rifka and Herschel begins in South Africa where Herschel Haverman joins the Frankel family.

If only things had been different,Diane Tanner thought before discovering her alternate reality.

Edward FitzGerald gave the title The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam to his translation of poetry attributed to the Persian poet, astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyam (1048-1123).

The Romany Rye is a fictional, yet highly autobiographical novel by George Borrow, which follows his novel Lavengro.

Thomas Hardy (1840 1928) was a naturalist and writer, whose fiction sits on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution and is filled with an imminent sense of nostalgia for the coming transformation of the British countryside.

William Dean Howells' 1885 novel, The Rise of Silas Lapham tells the story of its protagonist's materialistic aspirations; his rise from rags to riches.

Browning's dramatic poem The Ring and the Book narrates the trial of a Roman for the death.

While their father is napping, two boys enthusiastically wash everything in sight.

As you plan for the future, you'd best make this book your bible.

The Republic is Plato's most famous work and one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy and politics.

To summon a dead religion from its forgotten grave and to make it tell its story, would require an enchanter's wand.

An Old West adventure set in the rugged Palo Duro Canyon of Texas.

The Fairy Books, or Coloured Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour.