Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation was a book published anonymously in England in 1844. It proposed a natural theory of cosmic and biological evolution, tying together numerous speculative scientific theories of the age, and create...

The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexander Dumas was written in the mid 19th century. The story itself took place in the late 17th century France, during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King. Over the past few decades, many movies were made base...

Villette is a novel by Charlotte Brontë, published in 1853. After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where she is unwillingly pulled into both ad...