Essential Novelists - Arthur Quiller-Couch: clear and effortless style

Essential Novelists - James Fenimore Cooper: the leatherstocking tales

Essential Novelists - Daniel Defoe: early literary journalism

Essential Novelists - James Payn: sensible reflection upon familiar topics

Essential Novelists - S. Baring-Gould: enduringly popular works

Essential Novelists - Leonard Merrick: the novelist's novelist

Essential Novelists - Anthony Trollope: chronicles of the middle class

7 best short stories by Leonard Merrick

7 best short stories by John Buchan

Essential Novelists - Théophile Gautier: provocative and refined style

Essential Novelists - Honoré de Balzac: the human comedy

Essential Novelists - Joseph Conrad: the trials of the human spirit

Essential Novelists - Pierre Loti: literary impressionism

7 best short stories by S. Baring-Gould

Essential Novelists - Sara Jeannette Duncan: anglo-indian society

Essential Novelists - Amelia B. Edwards: archaeologist, travel writer and novelist

Essential Novelists - Paul Heyse: loyalty to classical tradition

7 best short stories by Ethel Watts Mumford

Essential Novelists - William Harrison Ainsworth: popular historical romances