Miles Franklin wrote My Brilliant Career as a romance to entertain her friends.

Liza of Lambeth (1897) narrates Liza's last four months alive.

According to the great horror writer H.P. Lovecraft The Ghost Pirates . . . is a powerful account of a doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils.

Published in 1901, M. P. Shiel's The Purple Cloud is an early last man science fiction novel.

You, my love, will be poor, so as to be more like all other women. In order for us to live together I shall work all day and so be your servant.

Pierre and Jean is a short realist novel by Guy de Maupassant.

Thomas Hardy's final novel Jude the Obscure explores notions of class, religion, marriage and modernization through its protagonist Jude Fawley, a working-class man who dreams of being a scholar.

One of Henry James' greatest novels, The Ambassadors is a dark comedy from 1903.

This first novel in Sax Rohmer's series, The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu combined together previously written short stories into a single story about the dealings of this criminal mastermind.

Trilby (1894) is a gothic horror novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the Fin de siècle period after Bram Stoker's Dracula.

The first novel by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton was published in 1848.

Born in Exile is an 1892 novel by George Robert Gissing, a prominent realist author of late-Victorian England who wrote twenty-three novels between 1880 and 1903.

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.

When "Lucky" Luke Ray, a cocky young American pilot volunteers to fly for the French in World War I.

Little Marinetta lives in her very own room at the top of an old dolls' house.

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

Ancient Hindu scriptures proclaim that some "longing in the darkness" propelled our world.

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

Tom Swift and His Airship is the third book in the original Tom Swift series.

Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat is the fourth book in the original Tom Swift series.