Essential Novelists - J. M. Barrie: tales of eternal childhood

7 best short stories by John Kendrick Bangs

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

Essential Novelists - James Fenimore Cooper: the leatherstocking tales

7 best short stories by Anthony Hope

Essential Novelists - Daniel Defoe: early literary journalism

7 best short stories by Francis Marion Crawford

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

Essential Novelists - L. Frank Baum: modernized fairy tale

7 best short stories by John Buchan

Essential Novelists - Théophile Gautier: provocative and refined style

Essential Novelists - Honoré de Balzac: the human comedy

7 best short stories by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Essential Novelists - William Henry Hudson: author and naturalist