Fanshawe was Nathaniel Hawthorne's first novel, a romantic story based on personal experiences during his time at Bowdoin College in the early 1820's.

A Man of Means is a collection of six short stories that first appeared in the United Kingdom in 1914 and in the United States in 1916. The stories all feature Roland Bleke, a young man for whom success comes far too easily and for whom financial success is a mixed blessing.

Black Heart and White Heart by H. Rider Haggard is a story of the courtship, trials and final union of a pair of Zulu lovers in the time of King Cetywayo.

A Book of Scoundrels by Charles WhibleyA Book of Scoundrels was first published by William Heinemann 1896, some chapters originally appeared in the National Observer, New Review, Pall Mall Gazette and Macmillan's Magazine.This list of scoundrels includes stories of Captain Hind; Moll Cutpurse and Jonathan Wild; Ralph Briscoe; Gilderoy and Sixteen-String Jack; George Barrington; The Switcher and Gentleman Harry; Deacon Brodie and Charles Peace; Monsieur L'Abbe, Sheppard and Cartouche;Of all the heroes who have waged a private and undeclared war upon their neighbours, Louis-Dominique Cartouche was the most generously endowed. It was but his resolute contempt for politics, his unswerving love of plunder for its own sake, that prevented him from seizing a throne or questing after the empire of the world.Charles Whibley (1860-1930).

To be Read at Dusk is a collection of stories by Charles Dickens