Although considered by many to be Robert Louis Stevenson's greatest work of literature, Weir of Hermiston was left unfinished by its author's untimely death in 1894.

The Moonstone is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction, Wilkie Collins.

The orphan Kim, whose father was an Irish soldier, makes his living by begging on the streets of Lahore and running errands.

In the South Seas is a collection of Robert Louis Stevenson's articles and essays on his travels in the Pacific.

The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a futuristic novel set in London in 1984. Chesterton envisions neither great technological leaps nor totalitarian suppression.

Conrad reputedly wrote Under Western Eyes (1911) in response to Crime and Punishment, which he detested.

An Outcast of the Islands is Joseph Conrad's second novel, first published in 1896 and inspired by Conrad's time as mate of the steamer The Vigar.

J M Barrie's most famous character, Peter Pan, originated in a whimsical story from his book The Little White Bird.

The World's Desire (1890) is a fantasy novel about the hero Odysseus.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the dystopian vision of H. G. Wells' novel The Sleeper Awakes (1910), a man awakes to a London where all he knew has radically changed after his sleep of two hundred and three years.

H. G. Wells' A Modern Utopia is a fusion of fiction and philosophy.

The World Set Free is H. G. Wells' prophetic 1914 novel, telling of world war and the advent of nuclear weapons.

H. G. Wells' prophetic The War in the Air foretold the use of airplanes in warfare and the coming of World War I.

Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, wrote the apocalyptic novel The Last Man in 1826.