The second and most popular of Trollop`s six Barsetshire novels, Barchester Towers chronicles the struggles for power and position in an imaginary country in Victorian England. Passions start seething when an " outsider", Dr.Proudie, is appointed bishop of Barchester. Soon his ambitious, domineering wife and the amarmy, scheming curate, Mr. Slope, are hatching plots and counter-plots as they try to control the choice of a new husband for Eleanor, a lovely young window and the daughter of the former warden, Mr.Harding.

George Eliot`s third novel, Silas Marner (1861) is a powerful and moving tale about one man`s journey from exile and loneliness to the warmth and joy of family

Written when women - and workers generally - had few rights in England, Agnes Grey exposes the brutal inequities of the rigid class system in mid-nineteenth-century Britain.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle narrates about adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The book contains the following novels: "The Return of Sherlock Holmes", "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes", "His Last Bow", "The Case book of Sherlock Holmes"

Now the original 1855 version and the "Death-bed Edition" of 1892 have been brought together in a single volume, with additional poems written throughout Whitman`s life, allowing the reader to experience the total scope of Whitman`s genius, which produced love lyrics, visionary musings, glimpses of nightmare and ecstasy, celebrations of the human body and spirit, and poems of loneliness, loss, and mourning.

In April 1895, at the age of fifty-one, Joshua Slocum departed Boston in his thirty-six-foot sloopy Spray, a derelict boat he had rebuilt himself. Three years and 46,000 miles later, he returned, and wrote this remarkable account of his voyage. An instant besy-seller, Sailing Alone Around the World is now regarded as one of the literature`s greatest voyage narratives.

As an adolescent America searched for its unique identity, a number of thinkers and writers emerged eager to share their vision of what the American character could be. A leader among them was Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose essays, lectures, and poems defined the American transcendentalist movement, through he himself disliked the term

Written during Mark Twain`s so-called pessimistic period, Pudd`nhead Wilson is darkly comic masterpiece that exposes the wounds of racism in America and the absurdity of judging character based upon class or skin color

Highly controversial because of its frank look at the sexual hypocrisy of Victorian society, Thomas Hardy`s Tess of the d`Urbervilles was nonetheless a great commercial success when it appeared in 1891. It is now considered one of the finest novels in English

Uncle Tom`s Cabin is a living relevant story, passionate in its vivid depiction of the cruelest forms of injustice and inhumanity - and the courage it takes to fight against them