Battling insomnia Charles Dickens spent his time taking long walks through London. The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches Dickens made during that period.

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Quote, "Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.

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Quote, "When Paul spoke in that tone and wore that look, Lillian felt as if they had changed places, and he was the master and she the servant.

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Quote, "So perfectly like other people had she been in the water, that even yet the prince could scarcely believe his eyes when he saw her ascend slowly, grasp the balcony, and disappear through the window.

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Quote, "The Great Stone Face, then, was a work of Nature in her mood of majestic playfulness, formed on the perpendicular side of a mountain by some immense rocks, which had been thrown together in such a position as, when viewed at a proper.

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The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc, Fiction

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Quote ,"The sacred edifice, standing in solemn isolation amongst the converging avenues of enormous trees, as if to put grave thoughts of heaven into the hours of ease, pre- sented a closed Gothic portal to the light and glory of the west.

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The Dead Alive is a novel written by Wilkie Collins based on the famous Boorn Brothers murder case.

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The Blue Fairy Book, Andrew Lang, Fiction

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The Black Arrow is a 15th century war story by Robert Louis Stevenson . The House of Lancaster and the House of York go into the battle for the crown of England.

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Quote, "I intend in a short time to publish a large and rational defence of this art, and therefore shall say no more in its justification at present, than that it hath been in all ages defended by many learned men, and among the rest by.

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The Adventures of Gerard follows one of the 58 tales of famous detective Sherlock Holmes as written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Fiction

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Quote, ".who maintained that his name was Henry Price. However, for some reason or other, the natives down the river had given him the name of Makola, and it stuck to him through all his wanderings about the country.

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THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, A Collection of Holmes Adventures, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Fiction

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Symposium by Plato is a Socratic dialogue about the theme of love. The major conclusion being that true love means being the lover and not the beloved.

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Stories From Hans Andersen. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Seven children's stories by the celebrated master story-teller with illustrations by the master illustrator of the 19th and 20th centuries. Dulac was one of the central Edwardian illustrators

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South Sea Tales is London's collection of eight sea tales set in the South Seas, that encompass acts of slavery, savagery, death and humour.

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Sea Warfare is Kiplings collection of poems, theories, essays, and reminiscences on sea warfare.

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Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon v9, Constant, History

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Prue and I, George William Curtis, Literature

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