The Jungle Book
subject: Fiction
description: A young boy raised by wolves in the jungle, and his adventures with various animal characters, exploring themes of survival and the natural world.
creator: Kipling, Rudyard
publisher: Macmillan and Company
date: 1894
rights: Public Domain
format: Print Book
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: 19th Century

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
subject: Fiction
description: "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" is a whimsical, nonsensical children's novel about a young girl named Alice who follows a talking rabbit down a hole into a fantastical world filled with peculiar creatures and illogical situations.
creator: Carroll, Lewis
publisher: Macmillan & Co.
date: 1865
rights: Public Domain
format: Print Book
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: 19th Century

Faust
subject: Fiction
description: In this novel in verse, Faust is a scholarly man who, in his pursuit of knowledge, has become depressed. He seeks out Mephistopheles, representative of the Devil, and makes a deal exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. The character of Faust is based off of a historical man of the same name. He is a figure of Western folklore that inspired many authors, Goethe included, to add to the mythos. This story sees the origin of the phrase "Faustian bargain", the concept of which is recognizable in many popular culture stories of today.
creator: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
date: 1808
rights: Public Domain
format: Print Book
language: ger
type: Text
identifier: ISBN 0-553-21182-X
coverage: Nineteenth Century

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
subject: Fiction
description: Originally published within a collection of other short stories and essays, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a lasting example of early popular American fiction. It follows Ichabod Crane, a school teacher, to the secluded town of Sleepy Hollow in New York. He hears tale of a local legend, the Headless Horseman, and supposedly has a run in with the figure before mysteriously disappearing.
creator: Irving, Washington
date: 1820
rights: Public Domain
format: Print Book
language: eng
type: Text
identifier: ISBN 978-1-62011-670-8
coverage: Nineteenth Century

Swiss Family Robinson
subject: Fiction
description: Swiss Family Robinson is about a family immigrating to Australia when they become shipwrecked in the East Indies. There, with only themselves and a few domestic animals, they must learn the skills necessary to survive. The novel was intended to educate Wyss's own sons on natural history, physical science, self-reliance, and Christian-oriented moral lessons.
creator: Wyss, Johann David
date: 1812
rights: Public Domain
format: Print Book
language: ger
type: Text
identifier: ISBN 978-1-62011-395-0
coverage: Nineteenth Century

The Picture of Dorian Gray
subject: Fiction
description: The descent of Dorian Gray, a handsome young man whose portrait ages and deteriorates in reflection of his immoral actions, while he remains eternally youthful.
creator: Wilde, Oscar
publisher: Ward, Lock and Company
date: 1891
rights: Public Domain
format: Print Book
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: The 19th Century

Dracula
subject: Fiction
description: Count Dracula’s attempt to move from Transylvania to England in order to spread the undead curse, and the efforts of a group of people to stop him.
creator: Stoker, Bram
publisher: Archibald Constable and Company
date: 1897
rights: Public Domain
format: Print Book
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: 19th Century

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
subject: Fiction
description: Set in Paris during the 15th century the story centers on Quasimodo, the hunchback bell-ringer of the Notre-Dame Cathedral.
creator: Hugo, Victor
date: 1831
rights: Public Domain
format: Print Book
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: 19th Century

The Fall of the House of Usher
subject: Fiction
description: A gothic short story that follows an unnamed narrator as he visits a childhood friend, Roderick Usher, who has a mysterious illness.
creator: Poe, Edgar Allan
date: 1839
rights: Public Domain
format: Print Book
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: 19th Century

The Scarlet Letter
subject: Fiction
description: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a nineteenth century period novel. Published in 1850 yet taking place in the mid-1600s, the story follows the scandal caused in a small puritan town when the unmarried Hester Prynne refuses to name the father of her infant daughter, Pearl. This novel is considered a classic of nineteenth century American literature.
creator: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
date: 1850
rights: Public Domain
format: Print Book
language: eng
type: Text
coverage: 19th Century