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

Songs of Innocence and of Experience compiles two contrasting but directly related books.

Sonnets from the Portuguese is the collection of love poems written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Though Frances Burney's novels significantly influenced writers such as Jane Austen.

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

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.

Honoré de Balzac's renowned Lost Illusions consists of two volumes.

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit is, according to Dickens, a novel about selfishness.

Rudyard Kipling's 1897 novel Captains Courageous follows the adventures and subsequent growth.

A country girl moves to the big city and lives her own version of the American Dream.

Daniel Deronda meets the beautiful, extravagant Gwendolen in Germany.

Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is exactly what it claims.

Erasmus of Rotterdam wrote the essay The Praise of Folly during a week.

The Trojan Women follows the women of Troy after the famous war which devastated their city.

The Gift of the Magi is a treasured short story written by O. Henry.

In 1856 the Reverend Edmund Donald Carr was overtaken by a blizzard.