It is 1750 and Daniel, the 10-year-old foundling living with Dick Bates is worried. Dick is the owner of the Peacock Alehouse in White Cross Street, Islington.

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, was completed by Mary Shelley at the age of 19.

Our Mutual Friend was Charles Dickens' last completed novel.

Selling 20,000 copies in the first year after its publication in 1859.

Henry VIII was the infamous English king who abolished ties with the Catholic church.

FIRST off, let me state the object of the meeting: This is to be a record.

De vita Caesarum, known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies.

Ethics is a philosophical book written by Benedictus de Spinoza.

The Americanization of Edward Bok is an autobiography, told in the third person.

The Enchiridion, or Handbook was written by a student of Epictetus in the 2nd century.

Initially banned in his home country The Kingdom of God Is Within You is Leo Tolstoy's great non-fiction.

British writer John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps is the first of five adventure novels to star Richard Hannay, a man with a remarkable knack for getting out of sticky situations, and indeed getting into them in the first place.

Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism have been major influences on Chinese folklore tales.

The whole evolution is one in its essence. The succession is the same, the sequences identical.

This little book contains three plain sermons which were preached in New York in the Easter season of 1919, in the Park Avenue Presbyterian Church, of which my son is minister.

Never was there such great need for a mighty, Pentecostal revival in all our Churches; and the key to such a revival is earnest personal work.

The Duchess of Malfi was published in 1623, but the date of writing may have been as early as 1611.

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a novel portraying the corruption of the American meat industry in the early part of the twentieth century.

The Longest Journey (1907) follows the young Rickie Elliot's journey to maturity.

The Haunted Bookshop speaks of the ghosts that inhabit all places of books - the ghosts of all great literature.