Upriver, into evil. The great novel and the basis for the movie Apocalypse Now! is Conrad’s best-known treatment of European men losing themselves in a foreign land.

The Dashwood sisters adjust to reduced circumstances, in Jane Austen’s first novel.

Sherlock Holmes investigates the death of Sir Charles Baskerville.

A Nova Scotian rebuilds an old oyster boat and sails around the world in the seminal work for singlehanded sailors. Slocum was the first man to circumnavigate singlehanded.

A Nova Scotian rebuilds an old oyster boat and sails around the world in the seminal work for singlehanded sailors. Slocum was the first man to circumnavigate singlehanded.

Considered to be an influence on later horror writers, Hawthorne’s novel chronicles the rising and falling of the Pyncheon family in Salem.