Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Poison Belt follows on from The Lost World.

Collected here are a number of short stories by the popular American writer.

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.

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.

Daniel Deronda meets the beautiful, extravagant Gwendolen in Germany.

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

Fearing rejection by her community, Helene Alving stayed with her philandering husband.

Silas Marner is accused of stealing funds from his small Christian congregation.

Gustave Flaubert spent his life working on and revising the book he considered his greatest work,.

It is a good thing to observe Christmas day. The mere marking of times and seasons.