Charlotte Brontë's Gothic classic is an early exploration of women's independence in the mid-19th century and the pervasive societal challenges women had to endure....

This significant piece of literature by Joseph Conrad is a moody, symbolic narrative that follows Charles Marlow as he retells his early days as a steamboat captain on the Congo River....

Golden Globe-winning actor Michael C. Hall (Six Feet Under) performs Truman Capote's provocative, naturalistic masterstroke about a young writer's charmed fascination with his unorthodox neighbor....

During a train trip from Chicago to Texas in the late 1940s, A.W. Tozer began to write The Pursuit of God. He wrote all night, and when the train arrived at his destination, the rough draft was done....

Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile....

Countess Olenska, separated from her European husband, returns to old New York society....

George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community....

In this world of bribes, vendettas and swindling, in which heiresses are gambled and won, Trollope's characters embody all the vices....

Beautiful, sophisticated and endlessly ambitious Lily Bart endeavours to climb the social ladder of New York's elite by securing a good match and living beyond her means....

For 15 years the weaver Silas Marner has plied his loom near the village of Raveloe....

The three novels that make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family through three generations....

Sir Walter Scott's fanciful, vivid reinterpretation of medieval life makes for a successful novel that blends fact, myth, and romance....

Burdened by debt after her husband's death, Lucy Muir insists on moving into the cheap Gull Cottage, despite warnings the house is haunted. Upon discovering the rumors to be true, the young widow forms a special companionship with the ghost of handsome former sea captain Daniel Gregg....

Hardy's first major literary success, here brought to life by narrator Nathaniel Parker, is the story of the independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene....

The contest is between the outgoing church authorities led by Archdeacon Grantly and the newcomers led by Mrs. Proudie and her protégé, the ambitious Mr. Obadiah Slope....

The charming Lily Dale, Trollope's most beloved heroine, enters the Barsetshire scene in The Small House at Allington. Lily is the niece of Squire Dale, an embittered old bachelor....

This last novel in the Chronicles of Barsetshire series involves Mr. Crawley, the impoverished curate of Hogglestock....

In this lyrical story of a wounded man and the three women who seek to heal him, Rebecca West explores the complexity of the mind and its subtle strategies for coping with life's painful realities....

Everyone who falls in love with irrepressible, red-haired Anne Shirley longs to know more of her life and adventures....

Historic Prince Edward Island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence is the scene of this charming romance, which has captivated generations of readers...