The Merchant of Venice is classed as one of Shakespeare's comedies, but is more often remembered for its dramatic characters and situations.

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood retells the legends of the English outlaw Robin Hood, adapting the old ballads to be read by children.

George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss, orginally published in 1860 as three volumes, tells of the lives of brother and sister Tom and Maggie Tulliver as they grow up upon the River Floss.

The Moon and Sixpence is a fictional novel heavily influenced by the life of French painter Paul Gauguin.

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

After asking the sun, a cloud, the wind, and a wall to marry her, a mouse finds just the right husband.

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

Frederick Douglass was an ex-slave and a great orator in early 19th-century USA.

The New Atlantis is Sir Francis Bacon's creation of an ideal land.

Beautiful, honest Nell Trent lives with her devoted Grandfather in his Old Curiosity Shop.

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 Path of the Law is a short essay by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The experiences related in this volume fell to me in the summer of 1902.

Christine is brought up by her itinerant musician father, whose death she mourns endlessly.

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

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

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

The Princess and the Goblin is an enduring children's fantasy novel by George MacDonald.

The Professor was the first novel Charlotte Bronte wrote, but was only published posthumously.