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On an expedition to find a giant sea monster, three men are rescued by Captain Nemo. Their adventures take them to the submerged land of Atlantis, the Antarctic ice shelves, and to the ocean floor in diving suits to hunt sharks with air-guns.

Gulliver's is shipwrecked, abandoned, attacked by strangers, then attacked by his own crew. Gulliver believes what he is told, never perceives deeper meanings, is an honest man, and expects others to be honest.

The Blue Fairy Book includes a wide range of tales including seven from the Brothers Grimm, five from Madame d'Aulnoy, three from the Arabian Nights, and four Norwegian fairytales. The Fairy Books are some of Andrew Lang's most notable works.

Plato was one of the devoted young followers of Socrates. Plato never speaks in his own voice in his dialogues, and speaks as Socrates. The five dialogues includes the Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, and Phaedo.

A Journal of the Plague Year is an account of one man's experiences when the bubonic plague struck London in 1665. It is presented as an eyewitness account of the events at the time, identifying specific houses in which events took place.

In Norway in 1879, Nora Helmer forges her deceased father's signature for a loan. She has not told her husband, Torvald, that her illegal activities are funding their future trip to Italy.

The History of the Peloponnesian War is an account of the 431-404 BC war between Sparta and Athens. It was written by Thucydides, an Athenian historian who also happened to serve as an Athenian general during the war.

The Decameron is a collection of 100 tales told by ten young people sheltering in a secluded villa outside Florence to escape the Black Death. To pass the evenings, each member of the party tells a story each night.

Walden details Henry Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years and two months in a cabin owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson. The work is part social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and-to some degree-a manual for self-reliance.

The Origin of Species is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin and is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve through a process of natural selection.

Little Women follows the lives of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March - detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood. The family struggles to make ends meet, with the help of their kind and wealthy neighbor, Mr. Laurence.

Victor Frankenstein constructs a man out of old body parts and brings him to life. The newborn monster disappears from Frankenstein's laboratory and enters the world as an outcast, struggling with his own identity.

Theogony details Hesiod's interpretation of the origins of the world and the gods, beginning with Chaos, Gaia, Tartarus, and Eros, and shows a special interest in genealogy. The variant tales hint at the rich variety of myth that once existed.

When a mysterious young widow arrives at Wildfell Hall with her young son and a servant, rumours abound. Refusing to believe anything bad about her, Gilbert Markham befriends Helen. What follows is a journey of truth, love, and reconciliation.

Ecclesiastical History of the English People is a history of the Christian Churches in England, and of England generally. Divided into five books, the main focus is on the conflict between the pre-Schism Roman Rite and Celtic Christianity.

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions describes a two-dimensional world occupied by geometric figures. The narrator is a square, women are simple line-segments, and men are polygons with various numbers of sides.

Grace Abounding to the Chief of SInners is a spiritual autobiography composed while Bunyan was serving a twelve-year prison sentence for preaching without a license. The book chronicles Bunyan's conversion to Puritanism.

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion follows three philosophers named Demea, Philo and Cleanthes, who debate the nature of God's existence. While all three agree that a god exists, they differ sharply in opinion on God's nature.

This spiritual autobiography is divided into five parts, starting with Newman's commitment to religion at age fifteen. Newman questions himself and his commitment at every stage of his life, but never stops searching for enlightenment.

After becoming ill and losing her job, Carrie is taken in by a rich, handsome man who pays for her apartment and finds her work as an actress. But Carrie soon finds another man to take care of her, who happens to be married and a criminal.

The New Testament discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Christianity. The New Testament consists of 27 books: the four canonical gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), the Acts of the Apostles, the fourteen epistles of Paul, the seven catholic epistles, and the Book of Revelation.The King James Bible is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, completed in 1611 under the sponsorship of James VI. Noted for its "majesty of style", the King James Bible has been described as one of the most important books in English culture and a driving force in the shaping of the English-speaking world. With the development of stereotype printing at the beginning of the 19th century, the King James Bible became the most widely printed book in history.This cloth-bound book includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket, and is limited to 100 copies.